gossamer

How To Use gossamer In A Sentence

• And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costumes, -- rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
• Her glazed porcelain wings billow in a gossamer sweep of iridescence.
• So I made a classic cross-hair from spider's gossamer and used it to pinpoint a cell in the area I wanted to watch.
• But was that gossamer-like illusion, lying upon the far horizon, the magic of nicotian, or the vague presence of distant heights? Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
• Shakespeare, in _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, represents him as “a very Shetlander among the gossamer-winged, dainty-limbed fairies, strong enough to knock all their heads together, a rough, knurly-limbed, fawn-faced, shock-pated, mischievous little urchin.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
• She and danced her first solo with gossamer lightness and fluidity.
• Her hair had drifted through his fingers like gossamer.
• But he fell into a sleep light as gossamer, and a dream that seemed equally light.
• Other tracks smuggle in gossamer strands of bebop and cool jazz. Times, Sunday Times
• The thing was a kind of pilotless biplane of gossamer polymer, its wings silkscreened to resemble a giant butterfly. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth