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
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
Oh! had I wings, and like a storm-swift dove Poised on some aery cloud might there descry The conflict from above, Scouring the region with mine eye!
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
But I was born so high, Our aery buildeth in the Cedar's top, And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
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
The high metallic ceiling of the hangar and the roar of jet engines outside made for a very different setting than a conference room in the glass aeries of Manhattan.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2016
Many of the cave interiors have been playfully reimagined; in some, ceilings have been knocked out, creating three-story aeries.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015
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
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
