frore

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How oft we drove the horsemen blue   In Summer bright or Winter frore!

From War Poetry of the South by Various

The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.6 The “Inferno” of Dante has also “its eternal darkness for the dwellers in fierce heat and in ice.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

The time was early August; but nevertheless there was a tang of frost in the air and the river seemed to flow not water but a thick frore fog.

From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.

Small solace did they take From that frore radiance glistering on the dull Black desert gripped in iron silences, Like a false triumph o'er contestless fates, Or a mirage of life in wastes of Death.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

In Milton's lines, —— the piercing air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire,—Paradise Lost, b. ii., we have a form from the Anglo-Saxon participle gefroren = frozen.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)