frostwork
Example Sentences
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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
It was the very perfection of Gothic carving, and resembled frostwork in its lightness.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Many of his tragedies abound in imaginative pictures, while there are not in the realm of Fancy's fairy frostwork more exquisite representations than those found in the Tempest and the Midsummer Night's Dream.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry
For a good many years we have been tied to town in winter by fetters as fine as frostwork filigree, which we could not break without destroying a whole world of endearment.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
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
