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 Wilson, John
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
The same is true of the silver frostwork traced on the window-pane by the delicate touch of invisible fingers.
From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey
Allow me to present my humble views of an analogous discovery of frostwork on December 6, 1856, in a sandy loam in Chester county, Pa., near the Paoli monument.
All is contained in that one sob, in which the whole frostwork of these weary months breaks up and rolls away, swept before the strong flood.
From The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander
