frostwork
Example Sentences
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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
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 Raymond Z. Gallun
Now, being irrevocably awake, you peep through the half-drawn window-curtain, and observe that the glass is ornamented with fanciful devices in frostwork, and that each pane presents something like a frozen dream.
From The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fir and hemlock of a century's growth," he says, "met overhead and formed an archway, radiant with frostwork.
From Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea by James O. Brayman
Every clambering vine, every weed and dried leaf wore a coat of lace-webbed frostwork.
From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter
