frostwork

Example Sentences

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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.

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

Under its upper part they could see a grille of frostwork, close-wrought, glistening, and white.

From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Bacheller, Irving

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 Carlyle, Thomas

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 Dougall, Lily