frostwork
Example Sentences
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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 Margaret Fuller
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
They jewelled the grille of frostwork and flung a sprinkle of gold on the falling water.
From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Irving Bacheller
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
The little frostwork which Titmouse had thrown around his heart, began to melt like snow under sunbeams.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
