frostwork
Example Sentences
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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
It was the very perfection of Gothic carving, and resembled frostwork in its lightness.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The small panes of his window were so obscured by frostwork that he did not attempt to look through the glass, but opened his door.
From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall
Fir and hemlock of a century's growth," he says, "met overhead and formed an archway, radiant with frostwork.
From Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea by James O. Brayman
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 John Tyndall
