- a variation of aerie.
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 flights.
From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett
But across from my aery were no lights and no people, for that house was shuttered tight from attic to cellar, its dark front as expressionless as a blind face.
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
Why doth that glow Of God as black as blood thus grow That in our aery bower So pleased our eyes?
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
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
In recent years, they have requested industrial aeries in Dumbo and Williamsburg and, increasingly, restored brownstones replete with subway-tiled bathrooms and laundry rooms that would dwarf many city dwellers’ living rooms.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2014
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
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