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

Here it comes flying through this aery round.

From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

The bird had fallen from an aery on a ledge high above, and being too young to fly, had fluttered down the cliff and injured itself so severely that it was likely to die.

From Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various