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

Seizing in his hand his club of heavy knotted oak, he seeks with swift pace the aery mountain steep.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Why doth that glow Of God as black as blood thus grow That in our aery bower So pleased our eyes?

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

The Indian legend referred to is of a fearful, winged monster, who swooped down upon his prey, making his aery on the great cliffs at Alton.

From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)