frostwork

Example Sentences

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The leafless branches of the trees shone coldly in the thin glazing of frostwork and creaked against each other, as the bleak wind whistled through them.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee

The frostwork had so covered the window-panes that it was hardly possible to get a glimpse at the scenery outside.

From A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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.

She rustled in all her bravery of curls and frills, pinkings and quillings,—a marvellous specimen of Parisian frostwork, without one breath of reason or philosophy or conscience to melt it.

From Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Stowe, Harriet Beecher