frostwork
Example Sentences
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Now, being irrevocably awake, you peep through the half-drawn window-curtain, and observe that the glass is ornamented with fanciful devices in frostwork, and that each pane presents something like a frozen dream.
From The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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.
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
For a good many years we have been tied to town in winter by fetters as fine as frostwork filigree, which we could not break without destroying a whole world of endearment.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
Pendant from tree and shrub hung glittering icicles, and on the window panes the frostwork looked like the invisible effort of some fairy spirits, that a breath from mortals would dissolve.
From Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Babcock, Retta
