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

She spoke; but the other sped lightly down the aery sky, girt about with dark whirlwind on her echoing way.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

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 Runkle, Bertha

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 Vondel, Joost van den