frostwork
Example Sentences
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A red rash, with the pattern of frostwork on a Minnesota windowpane in January, was across his lean, handsome face.
From The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun
They tricked it out with all the frostwork of Gothic genius.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various
All is contained in that one sob, in which the whole frostwork of these weary months breaks up and rolls away, swept before the strong flood.
From The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander Maclaren
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
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 Margaret Fuller
