tissued

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Does she steer the tissued clouds "with radiant feet," or does she steer herself down the tissued clouds?

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

A man's mother is so tissued and woven into his life and brain that he can no more describe her than describe the air and sunlight that bless his days.

From Mince Pie by Morley, Christopher

I consider the following lines as strictly copied by Thomas Warton: The daring artist Explored the pangs that rend the royal breast, Those wounds that lurk beneath the tissued vest.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

Yea, everything ran with sunshine, as we are full of blood, and plants are tissued from green-gold, glistening sap.

From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

In rough magnificence array'd, When ancient Chivalry display'd The pomp of her heroic games, And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled, at the clarion's call, In some proud castle's high arch'd hall.

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir