Example Sentences

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Never was a bed so sweetly smoothed to the downiness of a swan's breast!

From Vision House by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

The habit of the shrub is densely bushy, and the foliage has a greyish green colour from its downiness.

From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by Wood, John

There were seldom any clouds in the summer sky, and those that were there were never of that soft, high-piled white downiness that belongs to summer clouds farther south.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

And above the organ rose the notes of a voice; high, soft, enveloped in a kind of downiness, like a cloud of incense, and which ran through the mazes of a long cadence.

From Hauntings by Lee, Vernon

The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair