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Frore

'The only noises in the frore air were of saws and axes and hammers.'

Now limited to dialect use, this...

A metaphor to grab you, as the light and warmth of summer beats a retreat and winter advances, affront of...

A cool simile for coldness, since jelly by its nature needs to be kept so. See also a superb

A letter from Keats to his beloved Fanny, with a kindly injunction to wrap up warmly. I loved the solicitude...

Perfect Brontesque flora and climate, echoing the landscape of chill emotions this orphan needed to navigate to reach adulthood uncrushed,...

A small, lonely, oppressed orphan reading A History of British Birds in search of solace and stimulus and finding instead bleak...

A great way to convey a chill in the air cold enough to affect the extremities. Also like the idea...

A crisp and unusual description of a Russian winter day in its chill beauty.

'White winter had set...