frostwork
Example Sentences
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Under its upper part they could see a grille of frostwork, close-wrought, glistening, and white.
From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Irving Bacheller
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 Henry Coppee
Every section and configuration has its heart of translucent blue or green, interlaced or bordered by fretted frostwork of intensest white, so that the appearance is at all times gnome-like and supernatural....
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
The same is true of the silver frostwork traced on the window-pane by the delicate touch of invisible fingers.
From Nature and Culture by Harvey Rice
