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

I placed my warm hand against a pane which was covered by the crystallization, and melted the frostwork which clung to it.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

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

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

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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher