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

Not Age but Youth of centuries smiles from gray walls and aery pinnacles upon the joyous children of To-day.

From The Invader A Novel by Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa)

Fame if not double-faced is double-mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flights.

From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard

You That have with ageless anguish slowly risen From earth's still secret prison Into the ampler prison of aery blue.

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John