frostwork
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Finally it shone almost horizontally through the tree-trunks, growing larger and larger until its field was crackled across with a frostwork of twigs and leaves.
From The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White
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
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
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
From his own small house the lamp which he had left on the table shot out a long bright ray through a chink in the frostwork on the window.
From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall
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