frore
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of frore
1200–50; Middle English froren; past participle of freeze
Example Sentences
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My frame is withered, my visage old, My locks are frore, and my bones ice cold.
From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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
Cold from the first, her breast grew frore, and bit Her kind lord's bosom with its stinging frost.
From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William
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
Ah! with that let me go To the clear, waning hill-side, Unspotted by snow, There to watch, o'er the sunk vale, The frore mountain-wall, Where the niched snow-bed sprays down Its powdery fall.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew
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