aery

Example Sentences

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And I will purge thy mortal grossness so,That thou shalt like an aery spirit go.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2015

Once, during the Spanish civil war, an anticlerical mob tried to destroy the building, but for all its look of aery fantasy, they could not budge a stone or dislodge a single ornament.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kenkenes from his aery watched her, noting with a softening countenance the almost maternal love that beautified her face.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

Only to look down on her again, unseen, from his aery in the rocks over the valley!

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

Also the biting ants may pursue you up to your aery perch and take small but effective bites in many itchable but unscratchable points.

From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.