gossamer

"Your hints are always as delicate as gossamer," said Temple.

How like is the down of the fruit to the first gossamer down of the heart—and ah!

But only stoop—catch the light thwartwise—and all is a silver network of gossamer!

You know how they capture the creatures on which they live; by weaving webs of gossamer, is it not?

The gossamer floatings of this French danseuse possessed 258 everyone.

Why, it is more idle than the passing wind, lighter than the down of the gossamer.

For weeks it hung trembling on a thread slender and weak as the gossamer's web.

It is like the pursuit of the gossamer, which the least breath sweeps away.

I have no idea what place these gossamer threads occupy in the economy of nature.

Why, that he had not been tied down by ropes at all, but only by thousands of gossamer webs!