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Meanings of hoar in English
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.
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Usage of hoar in English
1
He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes.
2
He whose head winters have whitened has bad enough of hoar frost.
3
On Singleton's black oilskin coat the dried salt glistened like hoar frost.
4
On Tuesday morning farmers woke up to a crisp minus seven hoar frost.
5
Sure enough, on the following morning white hoar-frost covered the grass and leaves.
6
When his hair and his wit were grown aged and hoar.
7
Neither hoar hairs nor wrinkles can arrogate reverence as their right.
8
It was frozen solid and covered with a thin coat of hoar frost.
9
The sun had just set as we took to flight; the hoar frost fell.
10
High and hoar on the forehead of the Jettenbühl stands the Castle of Heidelberg.
11
The general opinion is that the advertisement was a hoar.
12
The winter morning dawns with grey skies and the hoar frost on the fields.
13
The cow got nourishment by licking the hoar frost and salt from the ice.
14
Also some be hoar in youth, and black in age.
15
It was bitterly cold, and a freezing hoar frost came down from the sky.
16
Their horses were covered with sweat, and the sweat grew white with hoar frost.
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