Lopped of their boughs, their hoar trunks bared, And by the hatchet rudely squared, To give the walls their destined height, The sturdy oak and ash unite; While moss and clay and leaves combined To fence each crevice from the wind.
Autumn stood beside Apollo, his feet stained with the juice of the grape, and there was icy Winter, his hair stiffened with hoar frost.
See who stands in our midst in his black cloak, scattering hoar frost that blights the fields and freezes us!
The leaves of the willow, though green above, are hoar below.
The Weeping Willow That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream,[013] has had its interest with people in general much increased by its association with the history of Napoleon in the Island of St. Helena.
The dew upon the withered grass of the grave turf is almost congealed into hoar frost, adding to its ghostly aspect.
Senator Hoar declared, when the bill came up for final passage, that it enunciated no new principle of law.
One of the sections in the bill--that providing that a successful litigant against a trust can recover three times the damages suffered from it--Mr. Hoar incorporated from a statute on monopolies passed in the reign of James I.
Hoar of Massachusetts, George Gray of Delaware, and James Z.
His most active associates, were Senator Hoar and Senator George.
Arriving in Charleston, accompanied by his daughter, Mr. Hoar was promptly visited in his hotel by a committee of prominent men and obliged to leave the city and State at once.
The membership of the House was notable for able men,--the Hoar brothers, Henry L.
A great victory for the principle of local rights, argues Senator Hoar in his autobiography.
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.
Lowell and Holmes were the wits par excellence, though Judge Hoar did not fall far behind.
Thus is it, while Time is sweeping away the hoar relics of the past, the traces of his footprints enable us occasionally to return upon his track, and learn how great is the interval that separates our present from the era of their birth-time.
A letter to Senator Hoar from another Union soldier says that he kept up his heart as he paced up and down as sentinel in an exposed place by repeating over and over, "Liberty and Union now and forever, one and inseparable".
Near the hoar ash-tree the contending ranks closed, and there many a Dane and Saxon fell, who never more passed that barrier until they were borne away on the bier.
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows hishoar leaves in the glassy stream.
An old hare hoar, And an old hare hoar, Is very good meat in Lent; But a hare that is hoar Is too much for a score When it hoars ere it be spent.
No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie, that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent He walks by them and sings.
Hoar the flamen, That scolds against the quality of flesh And not believes himself.
Senator Hoar then went on to make another sort of appeal--the appeal to fact and experience: We have answered this question a good many times in the past.
In the winter time they do not go out to pasture until the hoar frost has evaporated and the ice has melted.
Rosita was shown the unusual spectacle of hoar frost, and shiveringly profited by Mary's ample provision of wraps.
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.
The bullocks, who have had nothing to drink for many days, tortured by thirst, are licking the hoar frost on the walls, and when Malachin goes up to them they begin licking his cold fur jacket.
A poplar covered with hoar frost looked in the bluish darkness like a giant wrapt in a shroud.
There were the solitary hoar precipices--there the plashing sea, the quiet strand, and the blue sky over all.
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.
Senator Hoar was more than usually caustic in his indictment of the new course.
This, it may be supposed, was not very agreeable, particularly when the weather became colder, for the moisture froze during the day on the blankets, which sparkled with hoar frost when I went to bed.
The morning was raw and cold with some hoar frost, and there not being a blanket among the party and only two coats, our sleep was neither long, sound, nor refreshing.
On this and several following days the meridian sun melted the light covering of snow or hoar frost on the lichens, which clothe the barren grounds, and rendered them so tender as to attract great herds of rein-deer to our neighbourhood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
