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Written on the First Leaf of a Lady's Album         Thou fragile, filmy, gossamery thing,         First leaf of spring!

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Mary Lamb

On, gay adventurers, bravely ride the billowy furze, Golden foil and dewy pearls are swaying to a tune: Quaff the brew of red raspberry through the vine veils gossamery.

From Ballads of Peace in War by Michael Earls

And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costumes,—rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various

But I must not anticipate—a beautiful veil of brown tissue, none of your woolleny, gruff fabrics, fit only for penance, but a silken gossamery cloud, soft as a baby's check.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

A vessel borne by magic gales, All rigg'd with gossamery sails, And bound for Fairy-land?

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson




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