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

Kenkenes from his aery watched her, noting with a softening countenance the almost maternal love that beautified her face.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

The room shared its aery with a broad, square veranda, trellised and vine-covered.

From Through stained glass by Chamberlain, George Agnew

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