frostwork

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 bush and tree was a miracle of frostwork, lavish, inexhaustible, infinitely varied, and of an unspeakable purity wherever it failed to catch the young light.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

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