frostwork

Example Sentences

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It was cold, and he could only stay in the dim little house, playing with small sticks and stones, or tracing the frostwork on the one little window.

From Child Stories from the Masters Being a Few Modest Interpretations of Some Phases of the Master Works Done in a Child Way by Menefee, Maud

I placed my warm hand against a pane which was covered by the crystallization, and melted the frostwork which clung to it.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

As the cold increases the line of frostwork creeps down the sides, producing fantastic changes in the aspect of the hill.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 by Various

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Annie went to the window, and at first could see nothing but some beautiful frostwork on it.

From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes