frostwork

Example Sentences

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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

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

The leafless branches of the trees shone coldly in the thin glazing of frostwork and creaked against each other, as the bleak wind whistled through them.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee

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

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