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

Fir and hemlock of a century's growth," he says, "met overhead and formed an archway, radiant with frostwork.

From Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea by Brayman, James O.

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

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

How strangely dim and confused on the water the fantastic frostwork imagery, yet more steadfastly hanging there than ever hung the banks of summer!

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde