frore

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Her beauty was as still sunsets of bitter evenings when all the world is frore, a wonder and a chill.

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  • The usual order of support is reversed; and here is that truer Mercury, in whom the winged head, possessing as function what its prototype only exhibited as ornament and symbol, really soars in its own might, bearing the pendent feet Dr. Kane was one of the purest examples of the American organization; and as he issued victorious from that region where "the ground burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire," the Man of the New World was represented, and in him came forth with proven strength. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858
  • Her beauty was as still sunsets of bitter evenings when all the world is frore, a wonder and a chill. —  The Book of Wonder
  • The the beast wept as the frore hills weep in the thaw, and the tears splashed big into the agate bowl. —  The Book of Wonder
  • Those lights they raise but sparkles frore, —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • Shrank at the blast that pierced so frore -- —  Dreams and Days: Poems
 

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  1. Middle English, past participle of fresen, to freeze, from Old English frēosan; see freeze.
 

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/ˈfroʊr, froʊrɛn/
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