frostwork

Example Sentences

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They tricked it out with all the frostwork of Gothic genius.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various

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

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

From his own small house the lamp which he had left on the table shot out a long bright ray through a chink in the frostwork on the window.

From What Necessity Knows by Dougall, Lily

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