frostwork
Example Sentences
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From his own small house the lamp which he had left on the table shot out a long bright ray through a chink in the frostwork on the window.
From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall
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
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 Maud Menefee
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 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
