frostwork

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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

Obstacles, insuperable to the intellect of any adviser, shall melt away like frostwork before a ray from the celestial sun.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

They jewelled the grille of frostwork and flung a sprinkle of gold on the falling water.

From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Bacheller, Irving

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

They tricked it out with all the frostwork of Gothic genius.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various