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

Lucasta, Amarantha said, Is she that virgin-star? a maid, Except her prouder livery, In beauty poore, and cheap as I; Whose glory like a meteor shone, Or aery apparition, Admir'd a while, but slighted known.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

The sunset begins to burn red behind Magdalen Tower, all the towers and aery pinnacles rise blue yet distinct against it.

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

"More swift than lightning can I flye About this aery welkin soone; And, in a minute's space, descrye Each thing that's done below the moone."

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John