frostwork

Example Sentences

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The same is true of the silver frostwork traced on the window-pane by the delicate touch of invisible fingers.

From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey

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

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.

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

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