frostwork

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Yellow with age it was, and delicate as a spider's web, with frostwork of yellowed broidery strewn quaintly on its ancient form, and a touch of real lace.

From The Man of the Desert by Hill, Grace Livingston

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

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

Now, being irrevocably awake, you peep through the half-drawn window-curtain, and observe that the glass is ornamented with fanciful devices in frostwork, and that each pane presents something like a frozen dream.

From The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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