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

As for Cleomades, he could not forget the beautiful Princess Claremond, and, once more mounting his aery steed, he set off in the direction of her father’s kingdom.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis

Stars, you run your course unchidden; Sun, the sky puts forth no hand To constrain you; unforbidden Clouds in aery harness stand; And unchallenged comes the moon up, bright and slow upon the land.

From Poems by Stuart, Muriel

Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds: On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various