frore
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of frore
1200–50; Middle English froren; past participle of freeze
Example Sentences
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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.
My frame is withered, my visage old, My locks are frore, and my bones ice cold.
From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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
Progress was slow, and the Polar night gathered round us apace, as we stole still onward and onward into that blue and glimmering land of eternal frore.
From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
How oft we drove the horsemen blue In Summer bright or Winter frore!
From War Poetry of the South by Various
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