frostwork

Example Sentences

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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 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

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

How strangely dim and confused on the water the fantastic frostwork imagery, yet more steadfastly hanging there than ever hung the banks of summer!

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

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