frostwork
Example Sentences
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The small panes of his window were so obscured by frostwork that he did not attempt to look through the glass, but opened his door.
From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall
As frostwork disappears in the sunshine, so his brave resolutions vanished when her arm reached across his shoulder, and the ribbon that tied her beads fluttered against his cheek.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
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
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 Samuel Warren
She rustled in all her bravery of curls and frills, pinkings and quillings,—a marvellous specimen of Parisian frostwork, without one breath of reason or philosophy or conscience to melt it.
From Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
