frostwork
Example Sentences
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It was cold, and he could only stay in the dim little house, playing with small sticks and stones, or tracing the frostwork on the one little window.
From Child Stories from the Masters Being a Few Modest Interpretations of Some Phases of the Master Works Done in a Child Way by Menefee, Maud
From his own small house the lamp which he had left on the table shot out a long bright ray through a chink in the frostwork on the window.
From What Necessity Knows by Dougall, Lily
Before sunrise, doubtless, the blaze hovered upon the gray skirts of night and dissolved the frostwork that had gathered like a curtain over the small window-panes.
From Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
I placed my warm hand against a pane which was covered by the crystallization, and melted the frostwork which clung to it.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
It was the very perfection of Gothic carving, and resembled frostwork in its lightness.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
