frostwork
Example Sentences
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Annie went to the window, and at first could see nothing but some beautiful frostwork on it.
From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
Allow me to present my humble views of an analogous discovery of frostwork on December 6, 1856, in a sandy loam in Chester county, Pa., near the Paoli monument.
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
Under its upper part they could see a grille of frostwork, close-wrought, glistening, and white.
From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Bacheller, Irving
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
