tissued
Example Sentences
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Does she steer the tissued clouds "with radiant feet," or does she steer herself down the tissued clouds?
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
Winged momentarily on bits of tissued flame, threaded with blood, the bats had flickered a secret to her.
From The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Adorn'd with nature's brightest dyes, Whose gadding wing, and tissued plume, Allure so many wandering eyes.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
The higher guests approach a room of state, Where tissued couches all around were set Labour’d with art; o’er ivory tables thrown, Embroider’d carpets fell in folds adown.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
I consider the following lines as strictly copied by Thomas Warton: The daring artist Explored the pangs that rend the royal breast, Those wounds that lurk beneath the tissued vest.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
