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

Obstacles, insuperable to the intellect of any adviser, shall melt away like frostwork before a ray from the celestial sun.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

It was cold, and he could only stay in the dim little house, playing with small sticks and stones, or tracing the frostwork on the one little window.

From Child Stories from the Masters Being a Few Modest Interpretations of Some Phases of the Master Works Done in a Child Way by Menefee, Maud

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