frostwork
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The leafless branches of the trees shone coldly in the thin glazing of frostwork and creaked against each other, as the bleak wind whistled through them.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
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
Allow me to present my humble views of an analogous discovery of frostwork on December 6, 1856, in a sandy loam in Chester county, Pa., near the Paoli monument.
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 Brayman, James O.
Obstacles, insuperable to the intellect of any adviser, shall melt away like frostwork before a ray from the celestial sun.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
