frostwork
Example Sentences
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Annie went to the window, and at first could see nothing but some beautiful frostwork on it.
From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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 Harvey Rice
They tricked it out with all the frostwork of Gothic genius.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various
Finally it shone almost horizontally through the tree-trunks, growing larger and larger until its field was crackled across with a frostwork of twigs and leaves.
From The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White
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 Thomas Carlyle
