How To Use Gossamer In A Sentence
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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
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Her glazed porcelain wings billow in a gossamer sweep of iridescence.
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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.
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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
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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
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She and danced her first solo with gossamer lightness and fluidity.
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Her hair had drifted through his fingers like gossamer.
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But he fell into a sleep light as gossamer, and a dream that seemed equally light.
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Other tracks smuggle in gossamer strands of bebop and cool jazz.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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They were dreams come true, hard and indubitable realizations of fairy gossamers.
Chapter XI
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At the borders, it is a gossamer weft of sparse threads; nearer the centre, the texture becomes first fine muslin and then satin; lower still, on the narrower part of the opening, it is a network of roughly lozenged meshes.
The Life of the Spider
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A drapery scarf is sometimes added to this dress, of white barege, with the ends in stripes of gold across, and finished by a splendid and gossamer-like fringe of white silk.
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Glittery, white snowflakes hung from the ceiling, while along the edges of the bleachers was white gossamer that was also draped over the bleachers.
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One of his gossamer wings had been snapped off and the other was bent at a sharp angle, the many broken nerves causing it to twitch feebly.
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Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
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As he talked, the "nighty" that was not, and must be, weighed upon his mind as heavily as though it were a coat of mail instead of the gossamer creation he imagined.
The Port of Adventure
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The gossamer-thin spring-roll pastry can be bought from Oriental food stores and some speciality food halls and delis.
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One could look at those primrose-tinted ladies of his, with their gossamer films of raiment and their flowerage always suggestive of the asphodel mead, for hours: and if one's soul had had a substantial
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Set on a bed of marinated cucumber and red pepper relish, it is then surrounded by a gossamery corn emulsion.
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The land and sky were gone and only filaments remained, glittering gossamer against endless, starless black.
End of Time
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In consequence, he was entirely too occupied with his own difficulties to notice the gossamer shape poking its head above the gunwales of the ersatz pirate ship suspended above the gambling floor to the left of the pinball arcade.
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gossamer shading through his playing
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A closer look reveals a galaxy of gossamer threads that reach out to anchor the organism to rocks or other surfaces.
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At least the feud had taken a useful turn this past summer, erupting in gowns made of the thinnest, gauziest possible materials-costly, of course, since that meant gossamer linen and silk, and each gown had to be made of three or more layers if the lady who wore one didn't want to reveal every possible bodily secret to the world.
Brightly Burning
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Within the garden, slate walks and paths of red brick wound through the landscaping, and in the garden's center was a small round outbuilding of citron marble, cupolaed and columned, gossamer hangings stirring in the breeze at its windows and archways.
Conan The Unconquered
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Before this spring, visitors hopped out of their vehicles in a cloud of exhaust smoke and gazed up at the gossamer falls from the cracked asphalt, the smell of sequoias and the sound of cascading water barely discernible.
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He detested the Victorian ideal of love, with the doves and rosy-cheeked cherubs and gossamer and lace.
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A radiance now came pouring through the eastern opening down the gorge or cwm itself, and soon the light vapours floating about the pool were turned to sailing gauzes, all quivering with different dyes, as though a rainbow had become torn from the sky and woven into gossamer hangings and set adrift.
Aylwin
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Clad in a gossamer gown of emerald, the cowled female was otherwise very much a twin in face, save that her skin was of a pale green and her eyes were, as usual, shut.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
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Sometimes one scarcely dared breathe for fear of blowing away the gossamer thread of sound.
Times, Sunday Times
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A closer look reveals a galaxy of gossamer threads that reach out to anchor the organism to rocks or other surfaces.
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It looked to have been crafted from gossamer, or light itself.
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Other tracks smuggle in gossamer strands of bebop and cool jazz.
Times, Sunday Times
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A smile touched his blue lips as he patiently waited for the fragile wings of gossamer that would carry him to the heavens.
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But an eggshell is a fortress compared to the feathers and gossamer skin that shield this minute nestling from all the evils of the world.
Birdology
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The lines in the dirt clung to his heels, not with the delicate gossamer of a spider's threads, but with the thick grume of sucking mud.
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Gossamer sails -- "a faint, recedent measure, and intermingling with it the sound of a boy's voice singing gaily on the misty hills:
Sally of Missouri
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The latter features gossamer-thin pasta packets napped with nut-brown butter and crispy chestnut rounds.
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The fine line between loyalty and betrayal is like gossamer.
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Others appeared to float in broad tutu dresses worn with matching gossamer-light chiffon veil coats.
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Yes, there it was in the boys, those gossamery boys who thumped the stage.
At Swim, Two Boys
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That day she was dressed in a long, flowing skirt of black along with a blue top that had a pouting cherub on it and sleeves of gossamer.
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It was made of a fine gossamer fabric that clung to her smooth, flawless skin.
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The question tickled something long hidden, perhaps a meadow where sifting, warm light still shone, a memory of gossamer rays wrapped round his body in all splendorous tranquility.
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Rational Review
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Like gossamer you float and land on pavilions.
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This political configuration is no more than a gossamer ideal whose formation neither he nor his MMI confederates seriously espouse or actively promote.
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Sometimes one scarcely dared breathe for fear of blowing away the gossamer thread of sound.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lifting of the barrage as the infantry went in was signaled to the eye when the canopy of shell-smoke began to grow thin and gossamery for want of fresh bursts and another was forming beyond, as if the master hand at such things had lifted a long trail of cloud from one set of crests to another; only, nature never does things with such mathematical precision.
My Second Year of the War
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Cuisine and culture found its finest expression at the famed soirées of Versailles, a vision of ornate carriages, gossamer fabrics and scintillating jewels.
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They climbed past the neighborhood into a nameless gulch, huffing and wheezing through the sagebrush in their weight-tortured Reeboks, wading through prairie star, peppergrass, sunflower, the gossamery spores of plants kicked free and floating.
The Shell Collector : Stories
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The pig came to God again, and this time, God saw his spirit a gossamer breath.
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The gossamer threads of the shahtoosh make a shawl so warm and soft that it passes through a ring.
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In the UK, gossamer is the creation of a million baby spiders that spin threads vertically from the top of bushes which will carry them off into the wind, enabling them to travel for miles.
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The film will remain to me nothing more than a vehicle for her to look gorgeous swanning around in the flower fields, or looking suitably rubenesque floating in gossamer.
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‘No future’ screams at me, row upon row of the phrase repeats itself, shifting slightly like gossamer on the breeze.
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Habanero swooped down and flew along at our sides, and I could see gossamer strands trailing from his scales as he trilled happily.
Master of Mirrors
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But the cold made the sky shimmer like gossamer, and outside it felt crisp and fresh in a way that can only be described as bracing.
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I had hunted buffaloes with the Pawnees of the Platte, and ostriches upon the pampas of the Plata: to-day, shivering in the hut of an Esquimaux -- a month after, taking my _siesta_ in an aery couch under the gossamer frondage of the corozo palm.
The Rifle Rangers
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When the candidate for initiation sees (not merely believes, remember, but actually _sees_) that what has always before seemed to him empty space is in reality a solid mass of inconceivable density, and that the matter which has appeared to be the one tangible and certain basis of things is not only by comparison tenuous as gossamer (the "web" spun by "Father-Mother"), but is actually composed of emptiness and nothingness -- is itself the very negation of matter -- then for the first time he thoroughly appreciates the valuelessness of the physical senses as guides to the truth.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements
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Perkovsky and Arnautova's is the smallest, and most touching in its aspirations to glossy magazine décor with taup walls and white gossamer drapes at the window, cream quilted throw on the bed and an unplugged television set crowning an empty bookshelf.
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It resembles something sewn together out of scraps of gossamer: it's delicate and ethereal.
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How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer.
Ulysses
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It was thin and wispy, like freshly spun gossamer in the early morning light.
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Geoff hooked a needle through the rectus, the gossamer-thin muscle that controls eye movement, then immobilized it with a suture.
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As Torrance watched, the end car slowly glided back toward the trestle and, to the sharply extended arms of an overalled brakesman, came to a standstill with a few inches of the truck overhanging the gossamer structure.
The Return of Blue Pete
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A gossamer thread issues from her enormous abdomen at a steady clip, wound by a motor onto a revolving spindle.
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The dark blond which usually shone like gossamer, hang lankly against her head and down her back.
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This "winter water" I know, my French is atrocious for me springtime-bright: heavy on the hawthorne and iris, with more than a touch of the "whoopee" feeling that I got from Serge Lutens Santal Blanc, but gossamer light.
You Gotta Have Friends...
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It was still cloaked in shadow but if I stared long enough I could almost swear I saw the gossamer silhouette of an ancient oak, its branches twining together as though hiding a secret.
Brush of Darkness
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gossamer cobwebs
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That gossamer voice is as seductive as ever.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was only the soft evanescence of gossamery things which now seemed to him permanent.
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One problem is that Friel is beginning to repeat himself: Themes and motifs from earlier plays float about like gossamer in Indian summer.
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At another time she had come to the window and stood in it magnificently, and looked out because the moon had lost its way and was dripping the strangest and most transforming brilliance into the areaway between, turning the motif of ash-cans and clothes-lines into a vivid impressionism of silver casks and gigantic gossamer cobwebs.
Tales of the Jazz Age
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My ivory limbs glisten under the weight of the lightest gossamer.
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Off are the felted wool cloaks and headscarves, and on are gossamer skirts, tulle petticoats, lace bordering, sweeping décolletages, silk bows, and the rest of fripperiedom.
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Like in every family gathering with mothers hoping to become grandmothers, and young men and women in the throes of late pubescence, sex is the gossamer web that holds all discourse together.
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These symptoms, light as gossamer, resemble the clouds which scarcely break the azure surface of the sky and which they call flowers of the storm.
Analytical Studies
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The short Scherzo is very Mendelssohnian and might, therefore, have been played with a tad more gossamer lightness.
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But the strongest crypto is gossamer protection if malevolent people have access to the computers on the other end.
Homeland Insecurity
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They spin a gossamery veil over the piano playing to enhance the imagery.
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She had gone, in the broad light of the morning, in a holland suit with a blue Henley shirt, a sailor hat, and a gossamer
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That gossamer voice is as seductive as ever.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer.
Ulysses
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Selecting a modern look, Deepika has chosen mostly chiffons, gossamer net, silk and georgettes for her debut at LIFW.
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One of his gossamer wings had been snapped off and the other was bent at a sharp angle, the many broken nerves causing it to twitch feebly.
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He took an African wallet and eighteen English Durex Gossamer which Joy had got free at the Family Planning years back.
WHITE LIES
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Lung tissue is a gossamer net where the blood exchanges gaseous waste for oxygen.
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While the bulk of the album centers around gossamery ambiance, there are a few breaks from tradition.
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At times, the piano becomes so enswathed in its own gossamer-thin feedback that it seems to disappear like a receding, fog-bound figure.
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But I must not anticipate -- a beautiful veil of brown tissue, none of your woolleny, gruff fabrics, fit only for penance, but a silken gossamery cloud, soft as a baby's check.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
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Moving a nation forward is not a matter of merely gossamery proclamation.
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The Sedleys, Rochesters, and their compeers, had too much actual occupation, good and bad, to be fairly ranked among those gossamery ornaments of mankind; they were idle enough in their hearts for the purpose, but their lives were _not_ shadows, their sole object was _not_ self.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
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I find it difficult to believe that the life of the fields and gorsy hills and young plantations would be either better or worse if there were no such thing as gossamer.
Gossamer 1915
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Hung on seemingly gossamer cables and curving seductively over a frothing gorge below the Falls, it would be esthetically ideal.
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The darkness shrank back before the light of the flames, dissipating like shredded gossamer in the wind.
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Even the purportedly daring offerings had about them a certain politesse that left only a gossamer impression.
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Her gossamer spirit clings to the gales, another ghoulish mist chilling the Chinese countryside.
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A moment later her arms were twining round his neck as his lips brushed hers as soft as gossamer.
