Example Sentences

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He was playing in delicate variations, tranquil and enchanting, of effects in gold and silver, now gossamery thin, now thick and rich.

From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick

A vessel borne by magic gales, All rigg'd with gossamery sails, And bound for Fairy-land?

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde

On, gay adventurers, bravely ride the billowy furze, Golden foil and dewy pearls are swaying to a tune: Quaff the brew of red raspberry through the vine veils gossamery.

From Ballads of Peace in War by Earls, Michael

And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costumes,—rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various

Written on the First Leaf of a Lady's Album         Thou fragile, filmy, gossamery thing,         First leaf of spring!

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Lamb, Mary