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Why, the father bought a powder-horn, and an almanac, and a comb - case; the mother, a great fruz-towr, and a fat amber necklace; the daughters only tore two pairs of kid-leather gloves, with trying 'em on.

The Old Bachelor: a Comedy William Congreve 1699

Why, the father bought a powder-horn, and an almanac, and a comb - case; the mother, a great fruz-towr, and a fat amber necklace; the daughters only tore two pairs of kid-leather gloves, with trying 'em on.

The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] William Congreve 1699

There 's Hepsy, she 's allers at me, a sayin 'I don't do nothin' for her, an 'yet there las' night I wus up in my shirt, a shiverin 'an' a goin 'round, fust ter one and then ter' nuther, a hevin 'on em up an' a thumpin 'on their backs, an clarin' the phlegm out o 'their thruts, till I wus e'en a' most fruz and Hepsy, she lay there abed scoldin ''cause I hed n't sawed no wood thet arternoon to keep up the fire.

Oldtown Folks 1869

God's sake, 'says he,' an 'don't waste time;' an 'with that he brought the horse up beside the ditch, an' Jim Soolivan mounted up behind Micky, an 'they rode off; an' tin good miles it was iv a road, an 'at the other side iv Keeper intirely; an' it was snowin 'so fast that the ould baste could hardly go an at all at all, an' the two bys an his back was jist like a snowball all as one, an 'almost fruz an' smothered at the same time, your honour; an 'they wor both mighty sorrowful intirely, an' their toes almost dhroppin 'aff wid the could.

The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

Who knows but his dear little nose is about _fruz_ off by this time? "

Little Grandfather Sophie May 1869

"I was wed to her," said he, "th 'year afore the great frost, if you know when that were -- and I'd better have been fruz, a deal.

Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago Emily Sarah Holt 1864