Whose beard with age is hoar. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In this high realm floating water is probably in the frozen state, answering to the form of dew, which we call hoar frost. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
This deposit of ice crystals is known as hoar frost and may sometimes be so thick that it might look like snow. From Wordnik.com. [Hoarfrost Or Frozen Dew « Fairegarden] Reference
We are down in the violet bed oh, natural poets, we are down in "hoar" and our tongues a "fovent choir" 10. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Bedfellows] Reference
After being thus hung for seven days, a kind of hoar-frost will have formed upon the scales of the fish. From Wordnik.com. [Historic China, and other sketches] Reference
The high hoar cliff, the grove's benighting gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Melts from the mountains hoar, and Zephyr's breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
The aged hoar warrior, of his youth to bewail him. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Where Right the heart, from hoof to horn foam-hoar. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom, Truth and Beauty] Reference
Monadnock on his forehead hoar doth seal the sacred trust. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Stand like harpers hoar with beards that rest on their bosoms. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
Yet spake the word that warrior hoar, the young men's hearts he cheered. From Wordnik.com. [Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days] Reference
Her lustrous rays enshroud like light hoar-frost the jadelike balustrade. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
This can be worked into hoar-hound or dark penny goods, pop-corn bricks, etc. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
The hoar frost still lay thickly on the hedges and the grass by the roadside. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Some of them, particularly the fruit stands, looked as though composed of hoar frost. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
His face was blue with cold; his moustache, covered with hoar-frost, looked like a brush. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
They found the child's body cold and stiff, and white with hoar-frost, stark dead, indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Yet marvel it was to see that the trees in that hoar wood did not wave their branches, but all were still. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
The green fields glistened with hoar frost and the distant hills seen through the haze were covered with snow. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
They form white or grayish downy films on the surface of the plant, in certain stages looking like hoar-frost. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
There were the solitary hoar precipices -- there the plashing sea, the quiet strand, and the blue sky over all. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
The sun, which had made the hoar frost to sparkle on Christmas Day, barely pierced through the clouds on the afternoon of St. St.phen's. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Old and young alike seemed like octogenarians, their short thick beards and mustaches being white as hoar-frost from the congealed breath. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
The moon was nearly full, there was not a breath of wind stirring to shake the hoar-frost off the trees; all was hard, and bright, and clear. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
"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.". From Wordnik.com. [The One Great Reality] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
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