frostwork

Example Sentences

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They jewelled the grille of frostwork and flung a sprinkle of gold on the falling water.

From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Bacheller, Irving

How strangely dim and confused on the water the fantastic frostwork imagery, yet more steadfastly hanging there than ever hung the banks of summer!

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

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

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

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 Coppee, Henry