frostwork
Example Sentences
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All day pale golden sunlight flooded the whitened grass, which sometimes glittered with frostwork in early morning, while as the nights grew longer, the wild fowl came down from the north.
From Lorimer of the Northwest by Alfred James Dewey
Every clambering vine, every weed and dried leaf wore a coat of lace-webbed frostwork.
From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter
Such a Brother, with such a Life opening around him, like a blooming garden where he was to labor and gather, all vanished suddenly like frostwork, and hidden from your eye!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
The little frostwork which Titmouse had thrown around his heart, began to melt like snow under sunbeams.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
Every bush and tree was a miracle of frostwork, lavish, inexhaustible, infinitely varied, and of an unspeakable purity wherever it failed to catch the young light.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
