sparry
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of sparry
Example Sentences
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His pleasure-hall is far aloof, With viewless warders round it gliding, And only streams familiar sliding Toward him from the sparry roof.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von
I found in the primitive limestone a great many crystallized pyrites, and rhomboidal fragments of sparry iron-ore of Isabella yellow.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
Descend, Young mountaineer! descend where alleys bend Into the sparry hollows of the world!
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John
In the chalky beds which surround its summit are gathered numerous hollow flints, lined in the inside with a variety of sparry matter, and having some resemblance to petrified fruit.
From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Russell, Michael
Its bed is rough above, and it bursts forth from its cavern in dazzling foam, and falls in one sparry sheet to the gulf.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
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