frostwork
Example Sentences
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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
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
Now, being irrevocably awake, you peep through the half-drawn window-curtain, and observe that the glass is ornamented with fanciful devices in frostwork, and that each pane presents something like a frozen dream.
From The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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.
They tricked it out with all the frostwork of Gothic genius.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various
