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

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)

"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

With incredible velocity—for he is winged with good news—he flashes through the air, in his "aery wheels" exultingly waving his "flaming, keen, two-edged sword."

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den