frostwork

Example Sentences

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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

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

Yellow with age it was, and delicate as a spider's web, with frostwork of yellowed broidery strewn quaintly on its ancient form, and a touch of real lace.

From The Man of the Desert by Hill, Grace Livingston

As the cold increases the line of frostwork creeps down the sides, producing fantastic changes in the aspect of the hill.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 by Various