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

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

But each stately vessel barely touches some outlying buttress; then the aery hull swerves and changes its course due south, bearing its most precious freight to more fortunate regions.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Not Age but Youth of centuries smiles from gray walls and aery pinnacles upon the joyous children of To-day.

From The Invader A Novel by Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa)