frostwork
Example Sentences
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Every section and configuration has its heart of translucent blue or green, interlaced or bordered by fretted frostwork of intensest white, so that the appearance is at all times gnome-like and supernatural....
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
Before sunrise, doubtless, the blaze hovered upon the gray skirts of night and dissolved the frostwork that had gathered like a curtain over the small window-panes.
From Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") 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
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 Caroline Lee Hentz
The little frostwork which Titmouse had thrown around his heart, began to melt like snow under sunbeams.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
