frostwork
Example Sentences
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It was the very perfection of Gothic carving, and resembled frostwork in its lightness.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Every clambering vine, every weed and dried leaf wore a coat of lace-webbed frostwork.
From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter
All day pale golden sunlight flooded the whitened grass, which sometimes glittered with frostwork in early morning, while as the nights grew longer, the wild fowl came down from the north.
From Lorimer of the Northwest by Alfred James Dewey
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
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 Maud Menefee
