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
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)
My frame is withered, my visage old, My locks are frore, and my bones ice cold.
From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison
My little white goat that with raised feet huggest The oak stock, thy horns in the ivies frore, Could I wrestle like thee—how the wreaths thou tuggest!—
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
