frore

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I leave you, ye cold mountain chains, Dwelling of warriors stark and frore!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Great Pentheus, Lord of all this Theban land, I come from high Kithaeron, where the frore Snow spangles gleam and cease not evermore.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

The Mission Church smelt strongly of soap and stale incense, and in the frore atmosphere the coloured pictures on the walls looked more than usually crude and violent.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton

Frozen, from the Anglo-Saxon froren. "... the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire."

From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John