frostwork

Example Sentences

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Before sunrise, doubtless, the blaze hovered upon the gray skirts of night and dissolved the frostwork that had gathered like a curtain over the small window-panes.

From Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Such a Brother, with such a Life opening around him, like a blooming garden where he was to labor and gather, all vanished suddenly like frostwork, and hidden from your eye!

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas

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

A red rash, with the pattern of frostwork on a Minnesota windowpane in January, was across his lean, handsome face.

From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.

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.