frostwork

Example Sentences

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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 Rice, Harvey

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

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 Menefee, Maud

Many of his tragedies abound in imaginative pictures, while there are not in the realm of Fancy's fairy frostwork more exquisite representations than those found in the Tempest and the Midsummer Night's Dream.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

Pendant from tree and shrub hung glittering icicles, and on the window panes the frostwork looked like the invisible effort of some fairy spirits, that a breath from mortals would dissolve.

From Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Babcock, Retta