frostwork

Example Sentences

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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

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

I placed my warm hand against a pane which was covered by the crystallization, and melted the frostwork which clung to it.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

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 White, Stewart Edward

The small panes of his window were so obscured by frostwork that he did not attempt to look through the glass, but opened his door.

From What Necessity Knows by Dougall, Lily