frostwork

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Every section and configuration has its heart of translucent blue or green, interlaced or bordered by fretted frostwork of intensest white, so that the appearance is at all times gnome-like and supernatural....

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

All is contained in that one sob, in which the whole frostwork of these weary months breaks up and rolls away, swept before the strong flood.

From The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander