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Synonyms for frostwork
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : frawst-wurk, frost- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrɔstˌwɜrk, ˈfrɒst- |
Définition of frostwork
- As in Jack Frost : noun personification of frost
- Frostwork is something too delicate for human hands, but in it we excel.
- Extract from : « Prince Lazybones and Other Stories » by Mrs. W. J. Hays
- As the cold increases the line of frostwork creeps down the sides, producing fantastic changes in the aspect of the hill.
- Extract from : « The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 » by Various
- Frostwork on the windows may resemble vegetable forms; but it has no resemblance whatever to vegetable life.
- Extract from : « A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' » by Francis Bowen
- I placed my warm hand against a pane which was covered by the crystallization, and melted the frostwork which clung to it.
- Extract from : « The Glaciers of the Alps » by John Tyndall
- Obstacles, insuperable to the intellect of any adviser, shall melt away like frostwork before a ray from the celestial sun.
- Extract from : « Life Without and Life Within » by Margaret Fuller
- The frostwork had so covered the window-panes that it was hardly possible to get a glimpse at the scenery outside.
- Extract from : « A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A red rash, with the pattern of frostwork on a Minnesota windowpane in January, was across his lean, handsome face.
- Extract from : « The Planet Strappers » by Raymond Zinke Gallun
- When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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