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

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 flight.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Each aery Siren now hath gott her song, To whom the merry lambes doe tripp along The laughing meades, as joy full to behold Their winter coates couer'd with naming gold.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Also the biting ants may pursue you up to your aery perch and take small but effective bites in many itchable but unscratchable points.

From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.