frore
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of frore
1200–50; Middle English froren; past participle of freeze
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Earliest heats that follow frore Nervèd leaf of hellebore, Sweet willow, checkerberry red, With its savory leaf for bread.
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time's ocean o'er us will, in silence frore, Aeonian tides of change-filled seasons roll, And our long, dark, appointed period fill.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
While the brief sun gave New beauty to the death-flower of the frost, And pigeons in the frore air swooped and tossed, And glad eyes were more glad, and grave less grave.
From Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
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
Milton writes:— "…the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire."
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
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