frostwork

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Every bush and tree was a miracle of frostwork, lavish, inexhaustible, infinitely varied, and of an unspeakable purity wherever it failed to catch the young light.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

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 Maclaren, Alexander

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

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

Under its upper part they could see a grille of frostwork, close-wrought, glistening, and white.

From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Bacheller, Irving

It was the very perfection of Gothic carving, and resembled frostwork in its lightness.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher