frore
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of frore
1200–50; Middle English froren; past participle of freeze
Example Sentences
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Feet and faces tingle In that frore land: Legs wobble and go wingle, You scarce can stand.
From Fairies and Fusiliers by Robert Graves
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 John Bartlett
When the first rose flush was steeping All the frore peak's awful crown, Shepherds say, they found you sleeping In some windless valley, farther down.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
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 Compton MacKenzie
My frame is withered, my visage old, My locks are frore, and my bones ice cold.
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
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