frostwork

Example Sentences

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The frostwork had so covered the window-panes that it was hardly possible to get a glimpse at the scenery outside.

From A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Obstacles, insuperable to the intellect of any adviser, shall melt away like frostwork before a ray from the celestial sun.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

They tricked it out with all the frostwork of Gothic genius.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various

Under its upper part they could see a grille of frostwork, close-wrought, glistening, and white.

From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Bacheller, Irving

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