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

The room shared its aery with a broad, square veranda, trellised and vine-covered.

From Through stained glass by Chamberlain, George Agnew

With incredible velocity—for he is winged with good news—he flashes through the air, in his "aery wheels" exultingly waving his "flaming, keen, two-edged sword."

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

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.