frostwork

Example Sentences

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Finally it shone almost horizontally through the tree-trunks, growing larger and larger until its field was crackled across with a frostwork of twigs and leaves.

From The Silent Places by White, Stewart Edward

They jewelled the grille of frostwork and flung a sprinkle of gold on the falling water.

From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Bacheller, Irving

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

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