frostwork
Example Sentences
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Allow me to present my humble views of an analogous discovery of frostwork on December 6, 1856, in a sandy loam in Chester county, Pa., near the Paoli monument.
Yellow with age it was, and delicate as a spider's web, with frostwork of yellowed broidery strewn quaintly on its ancient form, and a touch of real lace.
From The Man of the Desert by Hill, Grace Livingston
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
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.
Such a Brother, with such a Life opening around him, like a blooming garden where he was to labor and gather, all vanished suddenly like frostwork, and hidden from your eye!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
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