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

But I was born so high, Our aery buildeth in the Cedar's top, And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

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

From Dawn of All by Benson, Robert Hugh

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