frostwork

Example Sentences

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She rustled in all her bravery of curls and frills, pinkings and quillings,—a marvellous specimen of Parisian frostwork, without one breath of reason or philosophy or conscience to melt it.

From Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

It was the very perfection of Gothic carving, and resembled frostwork in its lightness.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The little frostwork which Titmouse had thrown around his heart, began to melt like snow under sunbeams.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel

The small panes of his window were so obscured by frostwork that he did not attempt to look through the glass, but opened his door.

From What Necessity Knows by Dougall, Lily

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