fretworks

In the enameled impersonal phosphor light he traced a trembling finger across the familiar lines, the weathered fretworks and canyons, and marveled that the wrinkles flowed smoothly into the firming new flesh without a sign of the transition.

Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

Now I for these fretworks to the Lord of all thanking,

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

On these fretworks, so heard I, four horses therewith,

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

On his key-board of imbricated tones there are grays that felicitously sing across alien strawberry tints, thence modulate into fretworks of dim golden fire.

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

They spin steel and concrete into astonishingly delicate fretworks of vaults, arches, braces, cables and ribs.

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