| Several nominees, such as Ebenezer Hoar in 1870 and Wheeler H. Peckham in 1894, were rejected because their opposition to political patronage demands had antagonized influential senators. |
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| By now a full-time staff of permanent RCN officers and men had been established at HMCS Nonsuch and under the command of Cdr Hoar the ship showed steady progress and an up-to-date modern gun battery was installed. |
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| And the enticing blue of the swimming pool in the summer or the hoar frost on the trees in the winter. |
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| A heating element mounted on each transceiver prevents the formation of condensation or hoar frost. |
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| The ice was a little slow however, as it had hoar frost on it from the humidity in the air that morning. |
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| The avalanche appeared to be the wind loaded storm snow running on the old surface hoar layer. |
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| The strength of a layer of depth hoar is very low and the structure of the layer falls at the slightest touch. |
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| Snow covers the village in Sisley's Winter at Louveciennes, the slanting shapes of three passers-by drawing the eye to the twisted trunks of fruit trees on which a hoar frost hangs like wintry blossom. |
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| Mr. McCall performed stability tests in a snowpit at about 11,300 feet — the snow was about 30 inches deep, with depth hoar and uncohesive snow making up about the bottom third. |
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| Under a thick hoar frost, the landscape seems almost ethereally lovely. |
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| Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. |
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