frostwork
Example Sentences
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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 John Wilson
Such a Brother, with such a Life opening around him, like a blooming garden where he was to labor and gather, all vanished suddenly like frostwork, and hidden from your eye!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
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 Alfred James Dewey
As frostwork disappears in the sunshine, so his brave resolutions vanished when her arm reached across his shoulder, and the ribbon that tied her beads fluttered against his cheek.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
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 Lily Dougall
