frostwork

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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.

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