frostwork

Example Sentences

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Every bush and tree was a miracle of frostwork, lavish, inexhaustible, infinitely varied, and of an unspeakable purity wherever it failed to catch the young light.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

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 Dewey, Alfred James

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

A red rash, with the pattern of frostwork on a Minnesota windowpane in January, was across his lean, handsome face.

From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.

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 Dougall, Lily