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
Yellow with age it was, and delicate as a spider's web, with frostwork of yellowed broidery strewn quaintly on its ancient form, and a touch of real lace.
From The Man of the Desert by Hill, Grace Livingston
Every clambering vine, every weed and dried leaf wore a coat of lace-webbed frostwork.
From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Stratton-Porter, Gene
Many of his tragedies abound in imaginative pictures, while there are not in the realm of Fancy's fairy frostwork more exquisite representations than those found in the Tempest and the Midsummer Night's Dream.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry
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.
