aery
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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
Lucasta, Amarantha said, Is she that virgin-star? a maid, Except her prouder livery, In beauty poore, and cheap as I; Whose glory like a meteor shone, Or aery apparition, Admir'd a while, but slighted known.
From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard
But each stately vessel barely touches some outlying buttress; then the aery hull swerves and changes its course due south, bearing its most precious freight to more fortunate regions.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
In first place, body on its outer parts— Since these are touched by neighbouring aery gusts— Must there be thumped and strook by blows of air Repeatedly.
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
It’s only in the last several years that academic researchers have been leaving the university aeries and flocking to industry.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
Seen from sophisticated aeries such as New York or London, their politics have often seemed clownish and tinhorn.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 26, 2017
Governments should encourage people to live in modestly sized urban aeries instead of bribing home buyers into big suburban McMansions.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2011
In the sprawling lobby, editors, writers and arbiters of style glided skyward to their respective aeries, on escalators flanked by rainwater waterfalls.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2010
On the narrow peninsula they met hundreds of other raptors going north to their aeries, their nests and scrapes.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Beginning, forebodingly, with an aeriest, which hinted at award show decadence, the dancer-acrobatics throughout the song closed in one Abel Tesfaye, heightening the tension in the song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
