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

Not Age but Youth of centuries smiles from gray walls and aery pinnacles upon the joyous children of To-day.

From The Invader A Novel by Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa)

An aery," repeated Father Jervis—"an air-fleet, I mean.

From Dawn of All by Benson, Robert Hugh

As swift as lightning I do fly Amidst the aery welkin soon, And, in a minute's space, descry What things are done below the moon.

From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George