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

The bird had fallen from an aery on a ledge high above, and being too young to fly, had fluttered down the cliff and injured itself so severely that it was likely to die.

From Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various

An aery," repeated Father Jervis—"an air-fleet, I mean.

From Dawn of All by Benson, Robert Hugh

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