Example Sentences

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On the floors of the rooms were jaguar skins, with wonderful spots, and thick monkey furs of exquisite fleeciness.

From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Verne, Jules

"We shan't be able to observe anything but this fleeciness until we get to Mars."

From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Rockwood, Roy

Feathery white panicles of the Starry Campion, whose protruding stamens and fringed petals give it a certain fleeciness, are dainty enough for spring; by midsummer we expect plants of ranker growth and more gaudy flowers.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje

Only the white fleeciness of morning mist had flitted sometimes over her summer-sky, deepening the blue.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

Feathery white panicles of the starry campion, whose protruding stamens and fringed petals give it a certain fleeciness, are dainty enough for spring; by midsummer we expect plants of ranker growth and more gaudy flowers.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje