| 单词 | hoar |
| 例句 | This time they came from the Bible, through which she made desultory progress: gainsay, ravening, hoar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There was hoar frost last night, and all of the bare branches are coated white and sparkling. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Hoist the hoar sun to welcome morning’s minions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z If you are any sort of gardener at all, you know that this is the time of year, when hoar frost is on the twig, that held the greatest charm for Beverley Nichols. | Beverley Nichols 2011-01-12T14:00:17Z Zastrugi is the name for ridges made in blowing snow that look like sand dunes, while surface hoar looks like flakes growing up from the ground. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z I keep telling myself that any day now the clay soil will be rock-solid frozen, or at least the garden will be iced with a hoar frost. What this mild autumn means for your plants 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z We haven't any idea what to expect, and it's this that causes us to rage at the wrong sort of snow on the line even as we swoon at the sight of a hoar frost. Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Mabey – review 2013-03-08T09:00:01Z If nights are cold and the air moist enough, then hoar frost can give a delicately beautiful coating to vegetation. Northern exposures: how to take a perfect winter wildlife photograph 2010-12-02T10:52:00Z Bernadette Benz waited for a day with hoar frost before taking her picture called Frosted Silver Birch which won the Trees, Woods and Forests category. International Garden Photographer of the Year competition 2023 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z "This bear came in the early hours of the morning, so it was really hoar frost and covered," she said. Bear photography takes great-grandmother round the world 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z After all, the Japanese poem style lends itself to spare reflections on nature, crystalline musings on blossoms, songbirds or hoar frost. Perspective | The email addresses of Post reporters have disappeared from the paper, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to hear from you 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z A two-foot layer of sticky, dense snow lay atop a few more feet of loose, grainy hoar. What I Learned in Avalanche School 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z “There’s a potential avalanche layer, for sure,” Stimberis says, noting a layer created by freezing rain and another by surface hoar, or, in laymen’s terms, a gnarly frost. Avalanche forecasters keep motorists safe at a snowy pass 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z I particularly like the way this photo captures the Sun burning through the mist, with the reed beds covered in white hoar frost and the mill shrouded in mist. In pictures: Weather Photographer of the Year - BBC News 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The sculptor is currently working on several publications, including a children’s book about climate change through the lens of hoar frost characters. W.Va. sculptor finds inspiration in Old Man Winter 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Long crystals of hoar frost covered all surfaces. A winter’s night at a cabin in Southeast Alaska 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Here’s a Miniature Crystalline Forest of hoar frost, which forms when water vapor in the air condenses directly into ice. Physics Week in Review: January 25, 2014 2014-01-25T05:52:03Z It was what lay nearly three feet beneath — a thin layer of perfectly preserved frost called surface hoar. Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek 2012-12-20T20:56:48Z Withering and Stapylton had arrived fully two hoars earlier than they were expected, and Miss Dinah was too deeply engaged in the household cares that were to do them honor to receive them. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z She rose, and though the hoar frost was white on the grass and the fog of an autumn morning still curtained the view, she began to dress. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z “An ethereal band Are visible above: the Seasons four,— Green-kirtled Spring, flush Summer, golden store In Autumn’s sickle, Winter frosty hoar.” Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z For instance, Keats, describing a wave, breaking, out at sea, says of it— "Down whose green back the short-lived foam, all hoar, Bursts gradual, with a wayward indolence." Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z But five days of dry, cold weather, from Feb. 3 to 7, created a perfect, sparkly layer of surface hoar. Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek 2012-12-20T20:56:48Z There are scenes and even words that reach back into hoar antiquity, and bring us into the days of eld. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Punca war club The morning of the 12th of May was cold, there having been a hoar frost during the night. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Thy massy towers I view no more Through brooding darkness rising hoar, Like a broad line of light dim seen Some sable mountain-cleft between! The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z Then, the Yule atmosphere once provided, the distribution should be confined to the rural clientele until the next December, for on streets the hoar frost is indeed like ashes. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z I see Him in the blazing sun, And in the thunder-cloud; I hear Him in the mighty roar That rusheth through the forest hoar When winds are raging loud. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z O thou silly elf, Hast forgot the greenwood, the forest hoar, The flash of the sky, the wind's soften'd roar? The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z The weather in the wintertime is generally bright and clear; sometimes there are fogs, and hoar frost, which encrusts the trees with the most beautiful crystals: parhelia and aurora borealis are frequently seen. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z So every year that falls with noiseless flake Should fill old scars upon the stormward side, And make hoar age revered for age's sake, Not for traditions of youth's leafy pride. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z The spire of the old church showed hoar in the moonlight. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z The first thing that greeted their eyes was a thorough old-fashioned hoar frost, the like of which Archie had not seen for many a year. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z But I never fully heard the "eddying song" that "flooded" the creeping mosses and clambering weeds, And the willow branches hoar and dank, And the wavy swell of the soughing reeds. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The hoar frost has been falling gently all the livelong night. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Here we set up our rods: the first seething pool yielded a brace, besides false rises, and in half an hoar we had "creeled" several and began to hope for better things. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z There was no moon, but the blue heavens were thick with twinkling stars, and the prairie glittered faintly under the white hoar frost. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Leaves grew brightly green again, and the hoar frost was turned into glancing, gleaming, rainbow-coloured drops of dew. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Rose-pink light touched the high peaks and hoar frost sparkled on the pines, but the stern beauty of the wilds was daunting. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z “The mariner whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar.” Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Now if thou hast learned a champion's lore, Tell me the name of that mansion hoar, With roof of crystal and marble floor— The mansion I saw by the river's shore. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z In Dante the sentiment is vague, and only what is peaceful, while Shelley's ideal haunt of lovers admits owls and bats with the ring-dove, an "old cavern hoar" left unadorned, mossy mountains, and quivering waves. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z The glisten where the peaks are hoarest, The soundless darkness of the sunken vales, The folding leagues of shadowy forest, Edge beyond edge till all distinctness fails. Poems - First Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.917Z The riderless horses race to shore With thundering hoofs and shuddering, hoar, Blown manes uncurled. A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z "I will hoar her," said Napoleon; "come with me." For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:49.420Z They had come to a deceptive place where there had been water, which was now frozen and covered with hoar frost. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z A forest full deep, and wild to a wonder, High hills on each side, and crowded woods under, Of oaks hoar and huge, a hundred together. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Thou dear old home! no mountains capped with snow, No glorious oaks, no forest glades ye show; No minster hoar, no pile of classic fame, To lure the pilgrim by a world-wide name. Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride 2011-09-12T02:00:28.290Z Then King Orfeo left his kingdom, and went out to the wilderness to the ‘holtes hoar’ barefoot, taking nothing of all his wealth but his harp only. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The wishes that ought to be refused will vanish as we attain that eminence, like the hoar frost of morning as the sun grows strong. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The ice pinnacles are lined with hoar frost, on which there is a play of rainbow colors. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z His clothes were covered with hoar frost, he was drenched in blood, and the poor fellow's pale face showed me that of the keeper. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z The old man remained by himself, pacing his office for the best part of an hoar, deeply agitated; now gesticulating with his hands, now talking wildly. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z ‘Grim Nature’s visage hoar’ had plainly impressed his mind, and not in a repulsive way. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z His winter may come hoar with ideas, and brown October shall be his golden age of orchards and their ambrosia. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z It was a beautiful morning, but the surrounding woods and the mouldering autumn leaves were white with hoar frost. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z The next morning the Bannocks broke camp, and vanished before the hoar frost had melted from the sage. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z The glisten where the peaks are hoarest, The soundless darkness of the sunken vales, The folding leagues of shadowy forest, Wave beyond wave till all distinctness fails. The Three Hills And other Poems 2011-07-07T02:00:25.437Z All the great rooms were ornamented with shining ice-mirrors, all the floors were strewn with diamonds of hoar frost. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z The changes of the seasons diversify without diminishing the beauty; and even winter presents, instead of a uniform and dreary waste, a varied picture executed in hoar frost and snow. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z Prof. Pickering is inclined to the belief that it is hoar frost or ice. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z What arts of hoar antiquity did he not love to seek? Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The sharp reef moans and moans, The foam on the sand lies hoar; The ‘sea-dog’ flickers across the sky, The north wind whistles shrill and high ’Mid the breakers’ ominous roar. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Night lay over the city, and the wide plain of the Neva, swollen with frozen snow, was shining in the last gleams of the sun with myriads of sparks of gleaming hoar frost. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z “Prisoned on this watery shore, Starry Jealousy does keep my den; Cold and hoar, Weeping o’er, I hear the father of the ancient men.” William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z It was a cold morning, and the grass was stiff with hoar frost. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z They formed a series of the occupations of childhood, manhood, the indolent liver, “a child again,” and old age, thin and hoar, wise and discreet. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z In one of the so-called exhausted pits I saw many pieces touched, as it were, by hoar frost, which was nothing but minute crystals of alum formed on the surface, strongly acid to the taste. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z At a temperature vastly below any ever felt in Siberia, the smallest particles of moisture will be condensed into what we call hoar frost, and will glisten with as much whiteness as actual snow.... Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z To the left are two rather sharp promontories, crested by several fine churches, one "Los Angeles," fully two hundred years old—an age in the New World corresponding to hoar antiquity in the Old. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Autumn stood beside Apollo, his feet stained with the juice of the grape, and there was icy Winter, his hair stiffened with hoar frost. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z But as the troop held their steady way to the north the spring signs disappeared, and hoar frost and bleak winds told that winter’s reign was not yet over. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z They had broken through the thin ice formed overnight, and their whiskers and tusks were white with hoar frost. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Still less reasonable would it be to reject the conclusion that at the very least she has reached the hoar antiquity thus inferred. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z The moon shone brightly, and the hoar frost sparkled like diamonds on the twigs and few dead leaves. Christmas Stories 2011-02-27T03:00:31.413Z "See who stands in our midst in his black cloak, scattering hoar frost that blights the fields and freezes us!" they exclaimed. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z It was indeed not such an autumn as leads nature to its grave in the North, with gloomy, rainy days, raw stormy nights, rolling mists, hoar and night frosts. Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:40.700Z Her body brushed apart silver-lined bush, scattered the light hoar frost from dried grass stalks, and still she gazed before her, still she clasped the trembling child without word or sign. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The chapel was crowded to the doors, and during the sermon that lasted for an hoar no one moved and none went out. The Nation Behind Prison Bars 2011-02-10T03:00:55.530Z The fields no more With frost are hoar; But not a flower doth yet appear In glade or wood or meadow sere. Wayside Weeds 2011-01-23T03:00:17.230Z I recollect with what surprise I wakened one morning to find hoar frost thick on my blanket, and a scum of ice fringing the little creek beside which we slept. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z The forest, too, those acres of beech trees stretching out from Marazion and surrounding St. Michael's Mount, that "hoar rock in a wood," what had become of them? Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Already a crispness in the air heralded in Dame Autumn; with her rainbow-hued cloak trailing golds and reds, glittering with the diamonds strewn by the first hoar frost, as she passed. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z A quarter of an hour's anxious waiting followed, while the cold mist powdered every man's beard and hair with hoar frost. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z They were powdered with the white of a hoar frost, and the red, red sun shone from behind and made the frost a network of jewels. Capricious Caroline A shadow cowled and gaunt and hoar, Death, leaned above my chair. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy The flower-kissed meadows all once more Are green with grass and plume; The apple-trees again are hoar With fragrant snow of bloom. The Coast of Bohemia The Winter Wind, the wind of death, Who knocked upon my door, Now through the key-hole entereth, Invisible and hoar; He breathes around his icy breath And treads the flickering floor. A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems Full many a maid and blooming bride Within that splendid dome abide,— And many a hoar and shrivell'd sage, And many a matron bow'd with age. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Where bulbous domes of coruscating ore Cloud—like convulsive sunsets—lands that dream, Myrrh-fragrant, over siren seas and hoar, Dashed with stiff, breezy foam of ocean's stream. Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems In the gloom and solitude of the forest, “where the bitter wormwood stood pale grey” and where “the hoar stones lay thick,” the black, giant elves had their dwelling. The Old English Herbals How slowly the great mass seemed to move, though it was about an hoar ago she seemed to cleave the water like a fish! Tony Butler The season was the most pleasant of the year, being at that period when, in the southern highlands, the hoar frost is first seen to sparkle on the spray at early dawn. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Heavy hoar frost on the ground this morning. An Artilleryman's Diary On we pass.—Now let us oar To yonder strip of ragged shore, Where, from a rock with lichens hoar, A ferny spring wells. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue The banks are overhung by beautiful lindens and mammoth oaks and by hoar cedars of a thousand years' growth. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road The broad grass drive is hoar with frosty rime in the shadow of the bushes and crisp under foot. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Why, she thought about seven was going to be the hoar named. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance The leaves had fallen from the trees, and the hoar frost glistened on the bare twigs, when at last the grapes were gathered and pressed. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine In less than half an hoar after they were skimming across the Lake of Constance as fast as a light skiff and strong arms could bear them. One Of Them And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar frost on the ground. The Bible Story His limbs forget the feeble steps of age, And the hoar warrior burns with youthful rage. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem So long!” and chuckling heartily, the genial official turned back to light a fresh pipe and do another hoar of his own work, and that of his assistant too. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight: Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more—Oh, never more! The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes The brooks have burst their fetters hoar, And greet with noisy glee the glade; Spring knocks at winter's frosty door. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History They came therefore and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day: it was about the tenth hoar. The Bible Story No hare, sir: unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie, that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent. Folk-lore of Shakespeare How many children of the hamlet played Round its hoar trunk, who at its feet were laid, Withered and gray old men! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 "Ay, and when the lazy officials will keep you standing in the deep snow a full hoar at midnight, while they ring every copeck to see it be good money." The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History She, where the cushioned ivy dangling hoar Disturbs the quiet of her sable hair, Pores o'er a volume of romantic lore, Or hums an olden air. Blooms of the Berry An old hare hoar, And an old hare hoar, Is very good meat in Lent,” etc. Folk-lore of Shakespeare The old gardener turned round at the words, and, touching his hat respectfully, continued his work, while he replied,— "No, Mein Herr; it was but a white hoar, and everything has escaped well." Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II At midnight the snow storm ceased, the wind died away, and the still air deposited its vapor on hills and valley in a hoar frost. The Silent Barrier The first pine to the second said: “My leaves are black, my branches red; I stand upon this moor of mine, A hoar, unconquerable pine.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers And all the waters, leaping, tingling shake Like shivering stars within the frozen skies, When as the Giants of Frost rule o'er the deep, And nip their buds with fingers hoar of ice. Blooms of the Berry These are druids of eld, if you will, harpers hoar, plucking wild symphonies from the tense wires of the storm wind's three-stringed harp. Old Plymouth Trails O strangest wonder e’er beheld, Since ages hoar began, The angels saw the highest place Given to a Son of Man. Hymns from the Greek Office Books Together with Centos and Suggestions See “Hamlet,” iv, 7, 167: “There is a willow grows aslant a brook That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Its architecture spoke of hoar antiquity, of a time long past, when the Moor still fought around these scenes, and rushed to the fight to the war-cry of Allah Akbar! A Castle in Spain A Novel On some hoar upland, hoar with clustered thorns, Hard by a river's wind-blown lisp of waves, Sit with young white-skinned Spring, whose dewy morns Laugh in his pouting cheeks which Health enslaves. Blooms of the Berry Also they took the good pence, Three hundred pounds and more: And did them strait to Robin Hood Under the green-wood hoar. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse The fir woods looked purple-black against the white fields, and as she came near, she saw the fir-trees covered with silver hoar frost "almost like the tree in my dream," she thought. Fairy Tales from the German Forests The woods are spoiled and hoar, The ways are full of mire; We’ll walk the woods no more, But stay beside the fire. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) A sadder sweetness than before Shook her pale, smiling lips; She waved adieu through vapours hoar, And vanished in the shadows frore Among the heedless ships ... Ioläus The man that was a ghost Certainly no one doubted that the Messiah would have parents, and ancestors reaching back to a hoar antiquity. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 Grass or clover when wet by dew or rain frequently disorders digestion and brings on tympanites; frozen roots or pastures covered with hoar frost should also be regarded as dangerous. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle She picked up fir cones and beech nuts and acorns and filled her pinafore with them, also frosted fern leaves and dry grasses exquisitely outlined with hoar frost went into her apron. Fairy Tales from the German Forests "Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight; Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar, Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more—oh, never more!" Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The riderless horses race to shore With thundering hoofs and shuddering, hoar, Blown manes uncurled. The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems Spring sets in early at Vichy; sometimes in the midst of February the surface of the hills is already hoar with almond blossoms. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 Soon would the hoar frost crystallize on grass and fence, or the autumn rains descend, dripping mournfully from the water spouts and bubbling over the tubs. The Strollers These firs were covered with a silver lichen that looked like hoar frost. Fairy Tales from the German Forests When earth was young, primeval speech first call'd me Chaos; I Am no birth of to-day—a name of hoar antiquity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 At one moment one saw him lying gazing at one with laughing eyes; the next, it seemed as though only the hoar dew rested there, and glittered in the moonlight. Funny Big Socks Being the Fifth Book of the Series How eagerly I now would pierce The gulf that groweth wild and hoar! Enamels and Cameos and other Poems ‘There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;’ Isn’t that a perfect description of this very spot? John and Betty's History Visit For weary years my feet had wandered On many a fair but distant shore; By Lima's crumbling walls I'd pondered And gazed upon the Andes hoar. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 That head is mine; you might have known the likeness of the face But that hoar age and wear have dull'd the sharpness of the trace. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 Breakfast had been served at seven, and seven was the hoar at which David should have been among them. Among the Brigands Proud Mette and her nine witches hoar, They hurried screaming to the shore. p. 19She waked on the sea a tempest blast, The sand from the bottom the waves upcast. Finnish Arts or Sir Thor and Damsel Thure, a Ballad She was covered with hoar frost and her iridescent garment shimmered as if made of ice. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces I hear new sounds along the ancient shore, Whose dull old monotone Of tides, that broke on many a system hoar, Wailed through the ages lone! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 I love thy skies, thy sunny mists, Thy fields, thy mountains hoar, Thy wind that bloweth where it lists; Thy will, I love it more. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul She ill brooked Her descent Under the hoar tree’s Trunk confined. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas There is a Willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare S. Mark's is an ancient, quaint-looking pile, with the dim hoar light of history around it. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Land of the dark, the Runic rhyme,— The mystic ring,—the cavern hoar,— The Scandinavian seer, sublime In legendary lore. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland If St. Bartholomew Day be misty, the morning beginning with a hoar frost, then cold weather will soon ensue, and a sharp winter attended with many biting frosts. Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The green fields glistened with hoar frost and the distant hills seen through the haze were covered with snow. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders This would modify the violence of colour, giving an effect like hoar frost over autumn leaves. How to make rugs The rein-deer moss being purely white, like hoar frost, the scarlet colour of the strawberry mingling thickly with it, conveyed pleasure to the eye, and a feeling of delicacy to the mind. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition Mark how the star, at eve that rose, Has brightly glaz'd the settled snows, While every leaf is hoar! Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace The polar caps, then, are some form of snow and ice or possible hoar frost. Lectures in Navigation Towards the end of the Martian August evening dews began to be succeeded by slight hoar frosts. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story The trees were powdered with hoar frost, and it was at this time impossible to glide quietly along in the little boat, for the lake was covered with ice. The Regent's Daughter The hoar fight is forgotten; Our eagle, like the dove, Returns to bless a bridal Betokened from above. Poems Trees and bushes were covered with hoar frost, and looked like a forest of white coral; while on every twig glittered frozen dew-drops. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen That was the summer dream of winter, and the sun scattered the hoar frost from the boughs. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales It is well known that Mount's Bay gives many traces of submerged forest, and the old Cornish name of the Mount, meaning "the hoar rock in the wood," gives further evidence. The Cornwall Coast Oh, I am old and hoar! so old that none Of all my drops holds memory of birth: My mists no longer rise to robe the Sun, No longer lend great rivers to the Earth. The Masque of the Elements Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy sire, hoar Winter's blooming child, delightful Spring.—Mrs. Pearls of Thought On this particular December day, the air was crisp and cold, and full of floating particles of hoar frost, while the winter sun shone bright and clear. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Trees and bushes were covered with hoar frost, and looked like a complete forest of coral, and every twig seemed covered with gleaming white buds. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Stand like harpers hoar with beards that rest on their bosoms. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days The hoar frost still lay thickly on the hedges and the grass by the roadside. Antony Gray,—Gardener The minstrel gazed a little space into the Yule log's flame, and stroked his long hoar beard. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation It is from the former that the champion equips himself who offers battle on behalf of institutions that have descended to us from hoar antiquity. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Some stayed round the fires all night to keep warm; some, their tents collapsing, took refuge on a nearby piazza; some talk of washing their faces this morning in hoar frost. At Plattsburg The wind had shaken the hoar from the trees and hedges, and the holly-berries stood out in brilliant bunches against the dark green of the encircling leaves. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Dark it is without," said Skirnir to his horse, "and you and I must leap through flame, and go over hoar mountains among Giant Folk. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The people thronged the rocky shore, And viewed that graybeard old and hoar; 'Oh! why thus dodderest at the oar, Unhappy soul?' The Merryweathers There were the solitary hoar precipices—there the plashing sea, the quiet strand, and the blue sky over all. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 It was scarcely more than a heavy hoar frost, and as the sun sprang up without any warning twilight, the snow melted and left the surface damp and fresh. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner I wondered what he thought of the towering Cathedral, shrouded in a film of hoar frost that lent its ancient stones a bloom as delicate as the petals of flowers. Explorers of the Dawn Upon his shield—a sight to hold men mute— Was seen the head of the Nemean brute; Within one hand a gnarlèd club he bore, Hewn from an oak bole in the forest hoar. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 With clapping hands, from drifted door Of lonely shieling, peeps The imp, to see thy mantle hoar O'erspread the craggy steeps. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Hanging rocks and hoar precipices overlooked the tideless ocean; black caverns yawned; and for ever, among the sea-worn recesses, murmured and dashed the unfruitful waters. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Dinna you mind, ‘Even to your old age I am He, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you.’ Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not Neath open skies we sleep no more: December's nights with rime are hoar: Their triple watch454 in length extends With hours the shortened daylight lends. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Some of them, particularly the fruit stands, looked as though composed of hoar frost. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Cold was the land, and hoar With wintry rime. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman She reached the tree, having to go to it through long grass heavy with hoar frost. A Young Mutineer We can, for example, converge a powerful luminous beam upon a surface covered with hoar frost, without melting a single spicula of the crystals. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 So, as lovers have done ever since this hoar world was young, he gave himself up to melancholy and found, as more than lovers have found, a satisfaction in a grievance. The Justice of the King The North wind swept clouds of hoar frost before it in the streets. The Gods are Athirst Who reared the hoar hills, towering tall Above the lands?” Lilith The Legend of the First Woman After a white hoar frost, either in the Spring, or further on in the season, fish rarely feed until the afternoon of that day, and not always then. The Teesdale Angler Its surface is then covered with a white efflorescence, which resembles a heavy hoar frost; this, called salitré, being a sort of impure saltpetre, left after the evaporation and subsidence of the floods. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco From sunlight and shadow weaving threads of such fineness that the spider's were ropes of sand and the hoar frost's but clumsy icicles. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills Even hoar old Ocean joins our wail, Nor moves the boat, though bent with sail; Fierce shrieking gales the breakers churn, For thee—who shall no more return! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 So ended she, And onward, hostile lands among, passed fleet Blue solitudes afar, till paused her feet, Where highest ’mong hoar climbing peaks, uprose A mountain crest. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman The gray granite was grown hoar with age, and had a ghostly look; the columns were ponderous, and projected heavy shadows. Rookwood The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone: and now the Wedding-guest Turned from the bridegroom’s door. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 The moon’s disc was clear and well defined, whiter from contrast with the dark cumuli: and her beam frosted the prairie till the grass looked hoar. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse The dew upon the withered grass of the grave turf is almost congealed into hoar frost, adding to its ghostly aspect. The Death Shot A Story Retold Here is open, rushing water, throwing up clouds of steam that settles upon everything as dense hoar frost, while all other water is held in the adamantine fetters of the ice. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Between and around these a miniature landscape, representing winter, was extended, with little snowy-roofed temples, an ice-bound stream, bridges, columns, trees and shrubbery, all dusted with hoar frost. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette But the desire to possess and read wise old books which have been touched by the hoar frost of time is of a higher mood. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries So speaking, he kindles the sleeping embers of the fire, and with holy meal and laden censer does sacrifice to the tutelar of Pergama and hoar Vesta's secret shrine. The Aeneid of Virgil But he felt that some power drew him aside through the desolate ways of a hoar forest, where all the trees were ancient and big, and all bearded with long moss. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls IV. v.An old hare hoar, R&J. II. iv. The Facts About Shakespeare The grief for my son I put from me never, Till the flagstones of my side crumble, It is in me, and through my heart, Like a sharp blaze in the hoar hill grasses. Irish Books and Irish People Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight: Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar, Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more—oh, never more! English Songs and Ballads For instance, if any of them had the stomach ache "Ole Miss" would make them take some "Jerusalem Oak tea" and if they had a bad cold it was "hoar hound tea". Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Yet marvel it was to see that the trees in that hoar wood did not wave their branches, but all were still. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls "Frost!" said Bob suddenly, as he pointed to a small glistening crystal of hoar frost on a blade of grass. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men "All right, all right—not at all—not at all—" He ran on, joining the hoar and shouting wave. The Long Roll The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone; and now the Wedding-Guest Turned from the bridegroom's door. English Songs and Ballads Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside When morning broke he was aware of a little chapel and a hermitage between two hoar woods upon a knoll beside the marshes, and entering therein he got cheer of the holy hermit and rested. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls The ground was white with hoar frost and the lower branches of the trees in the yard had frost crystals on them. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men They are no longer black, but white, and look as if hoar frost had formed upon them.... Plotting in Pirate Seas And even to this day the best hours of my life are when I hear her sweet voice ’mid ivy greens or ruins grey, in wise books, hoar traditions. Memoirs The banks of the river and fields adjacent were white with hoar frost, and would have presented but a cheerless aspect, had not the sun shone out clear and bright. Jacob Faithful The turf was silvered with hoar frost, except here and there where the direct rays of the sun had melted it and exposed the grass beneath, which looked all the greener by contrast. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania The morning of Friday, January the 5th, dawned clear and cold, with the ground covered with hoar frost. For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution One morning a dense mist lay like a veil between the wooded banks, and all the trees, bushes, and plants, and the whole boat, were white with hoar frost. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Rounded and smooth and very hard, these stones, irregularly placed, with gaps and intervals, when slippery with hoar frost were most difficult to walk on. Round About a Great Estate For if it lies unused too long after being taken out, it is disintegrated by exposure to sun, moon, or hoar frost, and becomes earthy. The Ten Books on Architecture Now grows his mane of billows, high and hoar. Freedom, Truth and Beauty Say, ye waters raging round, Say, ye mountains, bleak and hoar, Is there quiet to be found, Where the world can vex no more? Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Often Mrs. Bear's home is discovered by means of the tiny hole in the roof around which is collected quantities of hoar frost. The Human Side of Animals “Trust to the Lord,” I answered, “and remember his gracious promise: ‘Even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs I will carry you.’” The Annals of the Poor Their horses were covered with sweat, and the sweat grew white with hoar frost. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs My bones are weakened, and the hoar hairs glisten on My head ... and I have now reached old age, failing in My powers.’... God Passes By Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight: Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more—O never more! The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language The sun, which had made the hoar frost to sparkle on Christmas Day, barely pierced through the clouds on the afternoon of St. Stephen's. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Rabbi Solomon ben Joseph sings, in our poet's version, "The Kabbala and Talmud hoar Than all the Prophets prize I more; For water is all Bible lore, But Mischna is pure wine." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life All the trees were covered with hoar frost so that they looked like white trees of coral. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs If hoar frost remains after sunrise, the day will be fine; if not, the day will be wet. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk And thus in love, sometimes disguised as wrath, He sends his hidden blessings in the storm, Which dashes down in its resistless path The hoar abuses that defied reform. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Thou, who hast been his guardian in wastes Of the hoar deep, accept his tears, his prayers; While thus he fondly hopes the purer light Of thy great truths on the benighted world Shall beam! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan With characteristic pride and self-confidence Pope Julius II to make room for it tore down the old church, and other ancient monuments, venerable and beautiful with the hoar of twelve centuries. The Age of the Reformation Keats, Lamia, Part I. 308 Wreaths sat on each hoar crown, whose snows flush' d rosy beneath them. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus It will rain within twenty-four hours of a hoar frost. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk I feel, indeed, all along in your talk of hoar antiquity, that I owe my place here only to your extreme hospitality. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Mark how those riven rocks on either shore 3 Uplift their bleak and furrowed fronts on high; How proudly desolate their foreheads hoar, That meet the earliest sunbeams of the sky! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan And he who is first and last, who is depth and height, Keeps silence now, as the sun when the woods wax hoar. Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI The sun is jogging down the brae, Dimly through the mist he 's shining, And cranreugh hoar creeps o'er the grass, As Day resigns his throne to E'ening. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century The grass showed white in the morning with the hoar frost which clung to every blade. At the Back of the North Wind In this high realm floating water is probably in the frozen state, answering to the form of dew, which we call hoar frost. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Slow sinks the cadence of the solemn lay, 150 And all the sombrous scenery steals away— The shadowy Druid throng, the darksome wood, And the hoar altar, wet with human blood! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan People, old men of my city, lordly wise and hoar of head, I a spouseless bride and crownless but with garlands of the dead From the fruitful light turn silent to my dark unchilded bed. Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) The hoar old gardener there With an eye more mild Perchance than his mild white hair Meets the child. A Dark Month From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V Morning after morning the girls would wake to find the roofs covered with hoar frost. A Popular Schoolgirl I saw thee seek the sounding shore, Delighted with the dashing roar; Or when the north his fleecy store Drove through the sky, I saw grim Nature’s visage hoar Struck thy young eye. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham To another class belong the limited number of fables that have come down to us through many channels from hoar antiquity. Fifty Famous Stories Retold Little heeds it how the seaward banks may stoop and slide, How the winds and years may hold all outer things in thrall, How their wrath may work on hoar church tower and boundary wall. A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Browned by the early frosts, with a glint of hoar rime on the cobwebs among the grasses, north, south, and west, as far as eye could see, were boundless reaches of hill and valley. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade The rocks where it bubbles out are thickly covered with hoar frost. Some Winter Days in Iowa But, to her mind, it did not compare with the sparse white bloom which lay like a first hoar frost on her crooked trees and showed cold and delicate against the pale blue sky. The Good Comrade The first step may very well be that of merely selecting some particular object and calmly or gently, yet determinedly directing the mind to it, to be recalled at a certain hoar. The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence On Singleton's black oilskin coat the dried salt glistened like hoar frost. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle She, whose pure passion knows nor guile nor wrong, With front of snow, with golden tresses crown'd, Combing her aged husband's hoar locks found, Wakes me when sportful wakes the warbling throng. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch So every year that falls with noiseless flake Should fill old scars up on the stormward side, And make hoar age revered for age's sake, Not for traditions of youth's leafy pride. Arbor Day Leaves A Complete Programme For Arbor Day Observance, Including Readings, Recitations, Music, and General Information It was the most glorious starlight night I have ever seen, but bitterly cold, with the thermometer ten degrees below zero, and everything sparkling with hoar frost. Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia The morning was fine, the sky clear, and the ground covered with hoar frost. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II On one occasion a man was known to have scraped the hoar frost off the sandbags to assuage his thirst, and some drank the dirty water that was to be found in shell craters. The Story of the "9th King's" in France Azure and sun were starved from heaven above, No dew had fallen, but biting frost lay hoar: O love, I knew that I should meet my love, Should find my love no more. Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight: Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more,—O nevermore! The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Yet spake the word that warrior hoar, the young men's hearts he cheered, Bad the good comrades forward go, nor ever be afeard. Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days The ground all the way covered with white hoar frost, and the dews heavy in a cloudless sky. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Dearest sister, the shadows will soon disappear, the rays of the Eternal Sun will thaw the hoar frost of winter. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse A white rime, like a hoar frost, fretting the deep red of the scorched skin, that was as delicate as that on a woman's palm. Caste To mountains hoar and russet plain, A joyous sprite, I come again; With many a sweet and joyous strain, And break grim winter's icy chain. Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems Set below and almost within them, the curving ground showed a more vivid green than the rest of the moor, as of some elfin lawn held in an ancient enchantment by the hoar rocks. Secret Bread How softly fair The dove-like passion on the sacred air Floats round her, nesting in her wreathed hair, That tells, though shadeless, of its auburn hue, Bathed in a hoar of diamond-dropping dew! The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras Finally, just at nightfall she heard her father shouting at the dogs outside and presently he came in carrying his komatik box, his beard weighted with ice and his clothing white with hoar frost. Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale And even the mountains old and hoar, And the billows that broke on Gosh's shore Since the far-off neolithic night, All knew the Glugs quite well by sight. The Glugs of Gosh Even to hoar hairs and to old age he has carried me, and not one good word has failed of all that he has promised. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. The brightest living reputation cannot be equally imposing to the imagination, with that which is covered and rendered venerable with the hoar of innumerable ages. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution It was once more a morning of early June, sunrise was blushing over the meadows, and the gossamers of hoar dew lay in spidery veils of woven light and melted under the rosy beams. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 The days shortened, and the hoar frosts in the early morning made the fence look a thing in silver-work strung through the woods. A Man and a Woman But abroad, over the crisp grass and misty white on all the exposed slopes, sparkled the deep hoar frost! The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem Even to your old age, I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.' The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. The horse stood there all of a shiver, shaking its head and stamping its hoofs, its mane and forelock white with hoar frost. Jerusalem His grants are ingrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Is it the voice of worlds and isles that wait While old earth crumbles to eternal rest, Or some hoar monster calling to his mate? The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics The Figures of hoar Frost, and the Vortices on windows: several Observations on the branched Figures of Urine: the Figures of Regulus Martis stellatus, and of Fern. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon When he names an ice-house, it is under a form of conundrum: "—the structure rude where Winter pounds, In conic pit his congelations hoar, That Summer may his tepid beverage cool With the chill luxury." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century "Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight; Fresh spring, and summer, and the winter hoar, Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more—Oh, never more!" Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Julius, bent and emaciated, has the nervous glance of a passionate and energetic temperament; though the brand is hoar with ashes and more than half burned out, it glows and can inflame a conflagration. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Every branch of tree, as it glittered in the moonlight in its dress of hoar frost, was familiar to her, every pane of glass in the windows of the old place seemed a friend. Gladys, the Reaper Deep in the drift of ages hoar Lie nations lost and kings forgot; Above their graves the oceans roar, Or desert sands drift o'er the spot. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems A change did not seem likely, for the rigging was hoar with frost, and ice glazed our deck. London River This yellow slave Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs'd; Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Ye subterraneous gods! whose awful sway The gliding ghosts, and silent shades obey: O Chaos hoar! and Phlegethon profound! The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) In shaded places of the valley you may walk through larches and leafless alder thickets by silent farms, all silvered over with hoar spangles—fairy forests, where the flowers and foliage are rime. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Not the Pope himself, as Milo had once seen him, hoar with sanctity, looked more remotely, more awfully pure than this king of murder, snowy upon his blood-red field. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Old you have grown,—all white and hoar! A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees The earth was frozen solid, and the wide flung forests were white with the hoar frosts of Spring. The Man in the Twilight They are also called logan stones and "hoar" stones, hoar meaning a boundary, inasmuch as they were frequently used in later times to mark the boundary of an estate, parish, or manor. Vanishing England The cow," answered Har, "supported herself by licking the stones that were covered with salt and hoar frost. The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson It was a morning fine and clear, with the hoar frost yet upon the ground. Lewis Rand And as she pass'd each cottage door, They did their gambols cease; And old men shook their locks so hoar, And wish'd her spirit peace. Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters The sea beneath was a deeper blue, with streaks almost like a hoar frost upon it, with here and there tints of green, like that of the sky at sunset. The Doctor's Dilemma The snow was crusted over with hoar frost, and the bare forest trees were hung with icicles. The Missing Bride HRIMFAXI: brim, rime, or hoar frost; fax, a crest, a mane. The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson Here are a dozen of them: core = caw. door = daw*. floor = flaw*. hoar* = haw. lore* = law. more = maw*. oar, ore = awe*. pore = paw. roar = raw. soar, sore = saw, saw. tore = taw. yore* = yaw. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones "All true:" replied the sailor, whose excitement was melting away before the soft tones of the child like hoar frost in the sunshine. Willis the Pilot There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples. Evesham The elms were flourishing and vigorous; but these detached oaks were decaying, and some dead, their hoar antiquity contrasting with the green grass and flowers of the mead. The Amateur Poacher Throned on my seaside, like Canute, bearded Ossian smites his hoar harp, wreathed with wild-flowers, in which warble my Wallers; blind Milton sings bass to my Petrarchs and Priors, and laureate crown me with bays. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II It was upon an April morn While yet the frost lay hoar, We heard Lord James's bugle-horn Sound by the rocky shore. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 The young fir trees, covered with hoar frost, stood motionless, waiting to see which of them was to die. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Panaurov was wearing a sumptuous coat of antelope skin, and his head and moustaches were white with hoar frost. The Darling and Other Stories Every morning the ground was covered with hoar frost, and in Zenan we have had ice an inch thick in one night, which I could not have believed unless I had seen it. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 So every year that falls with noiseless flake Should fill old scars up on the stormward side, And make hoar age revered for age's sake, Not for traditions of youth's leafy pride. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell Indeed, it may be merely a temporary condensation of vapor under the form of dew or hoar frost. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars The night is dark, but one can see the whole village with its white roofs and coils of smoke coming from the chimneys, the trees silvered with hoar frost, the snowdrifts. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories It may be half an hoar still before the King comes. In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid They manage these boats with a paddle instead of a rudder, and use a square sail, and they sail with incredible swiftness, twenty or even twenty-four miles in an hoar. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. The hoar frost seldom commences until the first of January, and lasts throughout that month. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Their buds in spring, their tints in autumn, and their dry leaves in winter, which were succeeded by the hoar frost hanging from their branches like white hair, had marked the seasons for us. Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty It was bitterly cold, and a freezing hoar frost came down from the sky. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850 Here and there it has some of the indistinctness of hoar antiquity: its fadings away are beautifully characteristic. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831 It subsided, however, in half an hoar, as did the agitation of the waves; it being observable in these hot climates that the waves soon rise and soon fall. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Though the season's hoar, Warm his welcome—rather! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 27, 1890 We beheld him displaced, and expelled and disgraced, When his hair and his wit were grown aged and hoar. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 He looks up inquiringly at his sister—his breath on the door has also turned to hoar frost. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The whole divan, one swimming circle glides Swift without stop: the old bashaws click time, As if on polish'd ice; in trance sublime The iman hoar with some spruce courtier slides. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art From where I sit, I see the stars, And down the chilly floor The moon between the frozen bars Is glimmering dim and hoar. Among the Millet and Other Poems The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain; Though comets, gone a thousand years, Return again, Patient she stands—she can no more— And waits, nor heeds she waxes hoar. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War He dealt as a youth with Youth, until, when his head grew hoar, and age gathered o'er his brow, to lightness he said, "Begone!" Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 From the open ports of the cabin, peering far down, the three Legionaries witnessed an extraordinary sight—a thing wholly incongruous in this hoar land of mystery and romance. The Flying Legion Now paused they sudden where the pine grove clad The hoar rock's brow, a dark and joyless shade. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art Perhaps some beggar driven from his bed By gnawing hunger he can bear no more, Or questing traveller with confusèd tread, Straying, bewildered in the midnight hoar. Among the Millet and Other Poems When Israel camped by Migdol hoar, Down at her feet her shawm she threw, But Moses sung and timbrels rung For Pharaoh's standed crew. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War The shepherd dwelt between two mountains hoar, In goodly cabin, in the greenwood shade, With wife and children; in short time before, The brand-new shed had builded in the glade. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 The river of hoar antiquity came to view in a quivering heat-haze, far to eastward. The Flying Legion In the mornings hoar frost or light snows silvered the world, disappearing as soon as the sun touched them, when the bark of every tree leaked moisture. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World In the winter time they do not go out to pasture until the hoar frost has evaporated and the ice has melted. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro There had been a hoar frost during the night, and the morning was delightfully bracing. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. Twig, branch, and trunk glowed with the fire of diamonds through a lacy necking of hoar frost. Darrel of the Blessed Isles Above these the hoar olives thickened, and the vines climbed from terrace to terrace. Between the Dark and the Daylight The hoar frost colder sparkles And spreads its silver o'er the fields, Alas! the golden days are vanished! Russian Lyrics Of late I saw him on his staff reclin'd, Bow'd down beneath a weary weight of woes, Without a roof to shelter from the wind His head, all hoar with many a winter's snows. Poetic Sketches In my imagination I saw ahead of me the winter stretches of country that I should come to, all white with snow, the trees all hoar, the people all frosted. A Tramp's Sketches On the ground beside the bramble bushes that project into the field the grass is white with hoar frost at noon-day, when the rest of the meadow has resumed its dull green winter tint. Hodge and His Masters As might be expected, nearly every page bears the record of some spot consecrated by hoar antiquity, or in the inspirations of olden or modern genius. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 I still remember Its margin glassed by hoar December, And how the sun fell on the snow: Ah! can it be so long ago? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 The sear leaves wander, and the hoar of age Gathers her trophy for the dying year, And following in her noiseless pilgrimage, Waters her couch with many a pearly tear. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829 Neither hoar hairs nor wrinkles can arrogate reverence as their right. Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers How proudly desolate their foreheads, hoar, That meet the earliest sunbeam of the sky! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 We cannot sufficiently censure such irreverence to "hoar antiquity," or the contracted and grovelling ideas which actuate such village Vandals. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 On we pressed, crawling our little way across the Vast, upon whose hoar silence, from Eternity until then, Bootes only, and that Great Bear, had watched. The Purple Cloud Of late I saw him on his staff reclined, Bow'd down beneath a weary weight of woes, Without a roof to shelter from the wind His head, all hoar with many a winter's snows. Poems (1828) In this picture we have it; no spectral cloud-pile, but a real Chimborazo, with the hoar of eternity upon its scalp, looks down upon the happy New-Yorker in his first May perspiration. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 But to every variety of scenery winter is the least becoming season of the year, though the hoar frost or a touch of snow will transform a whole village into fairyland at a moment's notice. A Cotswold Village He journey'd o'er a dreary length of way, To plains where freedom shed her hallow'd ray; O'er many a pathless wood, and mountain hoar, 135 To that fair clime her lifeless form he bore. Poems (1786), Volume I. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick. The Devil's Dictionary Where are the woods that, ninety summers back, Stood hoar with ages by the water-track? The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens The old ones, palsied, blear, and hoar,Their breasts in anguish beat—They’ve seen him seventy times before,How well they know the cheat! The Bab Ballads Across the country, over the Seine, among a forest of scrubby trees - the hoar frost lying cold in shady places, and glittering in the light - and here we are - at Poissy! Reprinted Pieces They now rose into regions of cloud, where they became covered with hoar frost and also stone deaf. The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation The first pine to the second said:‘My leaves are black, my branches red;I stand upon this moor of mine,A hoar, unconquerable pine.’ Moral Emblems Nor stayed he hand thereafter; but when noon Burned dead on misty hills of stunted fir, This man shook slumber from his limbs and sped Against hoar beaches and the kindled cliffs Of falling waters. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens He was so near that I heard the grass, crisp with hoar frost, crackle under his feet. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains The woods are spoiled and hoar, The ways are full of mire; We'll walk the woods no more, But stay beside the fire. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 The winter morning dawns with grey skies and the hoar frost on the fields. Poems But as we scoured the fell Carpathian sea, With flowing sheet, at distance from the shore, A storm assailed us, of such cruelty, The tempest even scared our pilot hoar. Orlando Furioso The cold hoar frost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The Pickwick Papers The sun has not yet risen high enough to melt the hoar frost, and the air is clear, bright, and cold. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Prisoned on watery shore, Starry jealousy does keep my den Cold and hoar; Weeping o'er, I hear the father of the ancient men. Poems of William Blake One man quoted David's prayer concerning Shimmei: "bring thou down his hoar head to the grave in blood!" Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 You make me marvel sore At Charlemagne, who is so old and hoar; Two hundred years, they say, he's lived and more. The Song of Roland And as the yellow wax is melted by the fire, or the hoar frost is consumed by the heat of the sun, so did Narcissus pine away, his body wasting by degrees. Good Stories for Holidays They were plainly but not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness to their appearance just now. The Mayor of Casterbridge Wis 16:29 For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's hoar frost, and shall run away as unprofitable water. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha The hoar frost clung like diamond dust to the reddish hair that framed her cheeks, and her pink little nose sniffed up the cold air. The Indian Lily and Other Stories I turned: his countenance shone like lightning hoar! The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 He was a bit squarer of jaw and shoulder and ever so prematurely, and to the enormous fancy of women, inclined to a hoar frost of gray at the temples. Star-Dust The dogs, straining in the harness, were white with hoar frost, and our deerskin clothing was also thickly coated with it. The Long Labrador Trail It triumphs over the Prince of Darkness, and covers a multitude of sins, as dew or hoar frost cover and make beautiful a dunghill. Albert Durer She could see the glistening of dew, its beaded hoar upon cobwebs and grassy borders. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Besides, you want twelve mace of dew, collected on 'White Dew' day, and twelve mace of the hoar frost, gathered on 'Frost Descent' day, and twelve mace of snow, fallen on 'Slight Snow' day! Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books In England they are known as “hoar-stones,” hoar meaning a boundary, inasmuch as they are frequently used in later times to mark the boundary of an estate, parish, or manor. English Villages This morning as we started the weather was perfect—thirty-odd degrees below zero and a bright sun that made the hoar frost sparkle like flakes of silver. The Long Labrador Trail By Afric's pestilential shore',— By many an iceberg, lone and hoar',— By many a palmy western isle, Basking in spring's perpetual smile',— By stormy Labrador'? Sanders' Union Fourth Reader The morning was beautiful but very cold, the whole mountain being covered with hoar frost. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land More deep each dread ravine And hideous hollow yawned, and sadly thus Answered that hoar associate of the clouds: "Spectre, I know not, I am always here." Poems For many a rood the shivering ice it tore, Loosed every bark and shook the sounding shore; Stroke after stroke with doubling force he plied, Foil'd the hoar Fiend and pulverized the tide. The Columbiad All pains and terrors have combined on me, to make me hoar And old of head and heart, whilst I a very child am yet. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Ho! shrilly fifes that stir the vales from sleep, Ho! brazen thunders from the mountains hoar; The very waves are marshalling on the deep, While tempests tread the shore. War Poetry of the South Every morning, and more regularly than it comes now, there was a spread of glistening hoar frost upon the lowlands and the little open lands in the forest and upon every spot not tree-protected. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man An aged man went round the infernal vault, Urging his workmen to their ceaseless task: White were his locks, as is the wintry snow On hoar Plinlimmon's head. Poems, 1799 Yet," said the secret voice, "some time, Sooner or later, will gray prime Make thy grass hoar with early rime. The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Upon hailing him, he popped his head out of the chamber window with a night-cap on, in one of the severest hoar frosty mornings I ever beheld. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 The hoar frost was clinging to his coat, where he had brushed against the trees in his walk, and he looked pale and tired. Monsieur Maurice The hoar frost, lying heavily on the herbage, made the valley resemble a sea of silver, checkered and spotted all over darkly. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man When the worlds and All began the gods were stern and old and They saw the Beginning from under eyebrows hoar with years, all but Inzana, Their child, who played with the golden ball. Time and the Gods The wonder was that their linen clothes were not only as dainty as stars, but that they glistened, as if they had laid on the ground during a hoar frost. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks The Winter Wind, the wind of death, Who knocked upon my door, Now through the keyhole entereth, Invisible and hoar: He breathes around his icy breath And treads the flickering floor. Poems "Even to your old age I am He; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made and I will bear, even I will carry and will deliver you." The One Great Reality They looked like a gray sea against the horizon; more fantastically yet, they seemed a vast hoar silence, full of mystery and loneliness. Roman Holidays, and Others The roofs in the shadow were covered with hoar frost; wherever there was shadow there was whiteness. The Marquis of Lossie There was a penetrating chill in the air, the fields were covered white with what seemed to be hoar frost, and the grassy way was wet with dew as after a heavy shower. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond And maples! how their sappy hearts would pour Rude troughs of syrup, when the winter hoar Steamed with the sugar-kettle, day and night, And, red, the snow was streaked with firelight. Poems Good Mr. Lieutenant, however, got up and shook himself, rubbing off the hoar frost with his plaid, and muttering something of a cauld neight. Rob Roy — Volume 01 It was upon an April morn, While yet the frost lay hoar, We heard Lord James's bugle-horn Sound by the rocky shore. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems Hermit hoar, in solemn cell Wearing out life's ev'ning grey, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes Kneeling on the hoar moss on one knee, writing on the other, if the stiff scrawl could be called writing! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 With him poetry looks best when she is All deftly mask'd as hoar antiquity. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives The general absence of cold is here made emphatic by mentioning special cold things: "snow," "frost," "hail," "hoar frost," "bitter cold," "winter shower." Halleck's New English Literature Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight; Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar, Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more--oh, never more! English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World Err shall they not, who resolute explore Times gloomy backward with judicious eyes; And, scanning right the practices of yore, Shall deem our hoar progenitors unwise. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes Over some shining shore, There hangeth a space of blue; A parting 'mid thin clouds hoar Where the sunlight is falling through. A Hidden Life and Other Poems If now ye should take this my son and anything happened to him in the way ye should bring my hoar hair with sorrow to hell. Bible Stories and Religious Classics Navigators know better than to confound this frost-rime with the hoar frost of the temperate zones, which only freezes when it has been deposited on the surface of the soil. An Antarctic Mystery Far different life to what tradition hoar Transmits of days more bless'd in times of yore. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 Had the whitish light covered the land alone, it might have been attributed to a snowfall, or, perhaps, even to a very severe hoar frost congealing a dense moisture. Across the Zodiac Hufnagel's Delicatessen, the briny hoar of twenty years upon it, went suddenly into decline and the hands of a receiver. Gaslight Sonatas It is no longer a flute, a double-bass, or a violin which you hoar; it is a symphony of Beethoven's, an oratorio of Haydn's, or Mozart's overture to Don Juan. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals And what could be prettier, he said, than the woods after it sleeted all night, and hoar frost finished the job! Old Caravan Days —Far different life from what Tradition hoar Transmits of happier lot in times of yore! The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 Here, the polished surface of the sandstone is covered with a hoar of salt and nitre. First Footsteps in East Africa Outside the trees were bending with hoar frost, a scanty whiteness lay on the lawn, and the soft mysterious light of coming snow seemed to envelope everything. Esther : a book for girls What villain dares, At this dread hoar, with feet and voice profane, Disturb our royal walls? The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 "She ill brooked her descent under the hoar tree's trunk confined." Algonquin Legends of New England Wise masters, hoar with learning, came out from Toulouse to teach her the seven arts and sciences, until there was not her like for wisdom anywhere. Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People Left Ramelton at seven o'clock Monday morning, April 4th, the hoar- frost lying white on the deck of the little steamer. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland The red sun rose slowly, achingly across the high Scottish moor, touching with melancholy gold the patching hoar frost and purple heath. Highland Ballad Also some be hoar in youth, and black in age. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Winter in losing thee has lost its all, And will be doubly bare, & hoar, & drear, Its bleak winds whistling o’er the cold pinched ground Which neither flower or grass will decorate. Proserpine and Midas My new acquaintance and I spent the day as became lovers of hoar antiquity. The Monastery The cabin was black with smoke that would not consent to go in the way it should go, so one had to be content with the chill morning, the hoar frost and the deck. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland But when the hoar frosts appeared, when the clouds gathered, when the winds began to wail, and the snows to fall, then his spirits rose to meet the invading death. Warlock o' Glenwarlock Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood. God and my Neighbour The ancient earth covers them with her own hoar antiquity, and their newness disappears. The Life of the Fields There he stood; I could even hoar his deep-drawn sighs—deep, long, as if from the very bottom of his heart.' Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story How crisp the mornings and evenings were, with ever so light a film of hoar frost, making a splendid sparkle on every blade of waving tussock-grass! Station Amusements in New Zealand The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone; and now the Wedding Guest Turned from the Bridegroom's door. English Literature for Boys and Girls Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace. God and my Neighbour Thus already the new agriculture has grown hoar. The Life of the Fields But the Bithynian soon regretted this proposal, for it fell like a hoar- frost upon the blind man's happy mood. Arachne — Volume 05 The ancient castles, grim and hoar, that had taken root as it were on the cliffs,--they were all his; for his thoughts dwelt in them, and the wind told him tales. Hyperion Youth removes, And Beauty too; and hoar Decay Drives out the wanton tribe of Loves And Sleep, that came or night or day. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace When the nights were dry and clear, and puffs of wind raised the hoar frost beneath their footsteps and fell on their faces like taps from a switch, they refrained from sitting down. The Fortune of the Rougons Jessie thought the morning too bright not to be doubtful, and the hoar frost was so very thick and white that it was not likely to continue much longer. Henrietta's Wish Or, Domineering The day was lovely, with little faint wafts of spring in the air; the sky was pale blue and cloudless; there was a slight hoar frost on the grass. A Sweet Girl Graduate Another cold night, thermometer 26°, with a slight hoar frost. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Merciless as an anatomical lecturer, he would smilingly take up one of her metaphors and dissect it, and over the pages of her MSS. for "Maga" his gravely spoken criticisms fell withering as hoar frost. St. Elmo Rosita was shown the unusual spectacle of hoar frost, and shiveringly profited by Mary's ample provision of wraps. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 He hastily carried down the family umbrella and the Brussels carpet valise with its copious pink roses, looking strangely out of season amid all that hoar frost. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields But when they came to the Fathers’ door, There stood his mother old and hoar. Poems By the Way Vex not thou Thine old hoar head with care to learn of me This. Locrine: a tragedy Thou wilt carry us both when little, and even to hoar hairs wilt Thou carry us; for our firmness, when it is Thou, then is it firmness; but when our own, it is infirmity. The Confessions of St. Augustine He was ruddy and bronzed, and his eyebrows and hair looked as if touched by hoar frost; altogether as dissimilar a partner as could be devised for the slender girlish being by his side. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 From yonder broken disk the redness dies, Like gold fruit through the leaves the half-sphere gleams, Then over the hoar tree-tops climbs the skies, Blanched ever more and more, until it beams Whiter than crystal. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke I think," said the vicar, "A read service quicker Than viols out-of-doors In these frosts and hoars. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses But colder, fleeter than the Winter’s wing, Time pass’d; and Paris changed, and now no more Œnone heard him on the mountain sing, Not now she met him in the forest hoar. Helen of Troy Bright fell the moonlight on pillar and court and shattered wall, hiding all their rents and imperfections in its silver garment, and clothing their hoar majesty with the peculiar glory of the night. She I was scarce thine elder when my life was thus rent asunder, and to hoar hairs, nay, to the grave itself, will she be my glory and my sorrow. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest The MS. reads: "His ruined sides and fragments hoar, While on the north to middle air." The Lady of the Lake He whose head winters have whitened has bad enough of hoar frost. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero The sun had just set as we took to flight; the hoar frost fell. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1 The hollows of the breakers on the shore Were green like leaves whereon no sun doth shine, Though sunlight make the outer branches hoar. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 In the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a milk-white sea. War and Peace Come ye to seek a champion's aid, On palfrey white, with harper hoar, Like errant damosel of yore? The Lady of the Lake He was a man nearing the evening of life, with a head whitened by hoar frost, but fresh, with an energetic face, a trifle too short, but still somewhat eagle-like. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero “Be still, be still, thou noisy guest— Be still for evermore; Become a rock and beetle there, Above the billows hoar.” Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces Err shall they not, who resolute explore Time’s gloomy backward with judicious eyes; And scanning right the practices of yore, Shall deem our hoar progenitors unwise. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson Eyes of blue—the Simla Hills Silvered with the moonlight hoar; Pleading of the waltz that thrills, Dies and echoes round Benmore. The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition Then Achilles went all alone by the side of the hoar sea, weeping and looking out upon the boundless waste of waters. The Iliad The stars never seem to wane, and the hoar frost comes on the grass, and I'm always waiting. Messer Marco Polo Prisoned on watery shore, Starry jealousy does keep my den Cold and hoar; Weeping o’er, I hear the father of the ancient men. Songs of Innocence and Experience Up in those latitudes men see curious things when the hoar frost is on the earth. The Shape of Fear "Bring thou down Shimei's hoar head to the grave with blood," are the last words of the dying monarch as recorded by the history. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo A roused million or more Of wild echoes reluctantly rise from their hoar Immemorial ambush, and roll in the wake Of the cloud, whose reflection leaves vivid the lake. Lucile Why the sea, That wrinkled and surly old time-tempered slave, Had been born, had his revels, grown wrinkled and hoar Since I last saw my love on that uttermost shore. Mae Madden A poplar covered with hoar frost looked in the bluish darkness like a giant wrapt in a shroud. The Schoolmistress, and other stories For woefully poor are these garments of mine, and I fear lest the hoar frost of the dawn overcome me; moreover ye say the city is far away.' The Odyssey Done into English prose It came on to freeze with a North wind blowing; the snow fell small and fine like hoar frost, and our shields were coated thick with rime. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original This becomes more equable when separated from fire and air, and then congeals into hail or ice, or the looser forms of hoar frost or snow. Timaeus Yet this was the last night for the gay Pompeii! the colony of the hoar Chaldean! the fabled city of Hercules! the delight of the voluptuous Roman! Last Days of Pompeii For example, he'd write thus: "Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray." Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie, that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent. Romeo and Juliet The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoar wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair. Poems Go, mingle yet once more With the perpetual roar Of the pine forest dark and hoar! The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Small was his shop, and hoar of visage he. Seven Men The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse I saw thee seek the sounding shore, Delighted with the dashing roar; Or when the North his fleecy store Drove thro' the sky, I saw grim Nature's visage hoar Struck thy young eye. Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Then saw he an old hoar gentleman coming toward him, that said, Balin le Savage, thou passest thy bounds to come this way, therefore turn again and it will avail thee. Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 He did not pause to parley or dissemble, But smote the Warden hoar; Ah! what a blow! that made all England tremble And groan from shore to shore. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It seemed to come out of her, numbing me, too; and the very diamonds on the arrow of gold sparkled like hoar frost in the light of the one candle. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes The crow, the slanderous cuckoo, nor The boding raven, nor chough hoar, Nor chattering pye, May on our bride-house perch or sing, Or with them any discord bring, But from it fly! Bulchevy's Book of English Verse It is swelled with the first snowy weather; The rocks they are icy and hoar, And sullenly waves the long heather, And the fern leaves are sunny no more. Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell |
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