frostwork

Example Sentences

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The frostwork had so covered the window-panes that it was hardly possible to get a glimpse at the scenery outside.

From A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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 Gallun, Raymond Z.

The little frostwork which Titmouse had thrown around his heart, began to melt like snow under sunbeams.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel

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