They were dreams come true, hard and indubitable realizations of fairy gossamers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote "silvery gossamers that twinkle into green and gold," he could well have had a glass of Saar or Ruwer wine at his elbow. ❋ Lettie Teague (2011)
The dew was on the grass, and ten thousand gossamers were waving in the breeze; the happy red – breast was pouring out its little soul in song, and my heart overflowed with silent hymns of gratitude and praise to heaven. ❋ Unknown (2002)
He is very good at filling gaps with plausible and possible gossamers. ❋ Cook, Glen (1995)
At last I approached the faint descending gossamers of the rigging, cables that sometimes caught the starlight, sometimes vanished in the darkness or against the towering bank of silver that was the top-hamper of the deck beyond. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1987)
Construction devices already in being at Houston and Huntsville could bind the parts together, while gossamers of enormous dimension could bring from the Sun all the energy needed to operate such an enterprise. ❋ Michener, James (1982)
If we look beyond the most distant star, the black walls are flecked with innumerable patches of filmy light like the dewy gossamers of the spider's loom that dot our fields at morn. ❋ Robert L. Taylor (N/A)
Or again, those wisps of mist were like gossamers as they floated along, and they would bend and fold over on the boughs before they tore; and where they broke, they seemed like comets to trail a thinner tail of themselves behind. ❋ Frederick Philip Grove (N/A)
Coats became threadbare, and defunct trousers vanished; waistcoats were never replaced; gossamers floated down the tide of Time; boots, deprived of all hope of future renovation by the loss of their _soles_, mouldered in obscurity; but the clear voice and chuckling salute were changeless as the statutes of the ❋ Various (N/A)
It was once more a morning of early June, sunrise was blushing over the meadows, and the gossamers of hoar dew lay in spidery veils of woven light and melted under the rosy beams. ❋ Various (N/A)
In the course of a hundred years the air might be as full of floating children as of gossamers in autumn. ' ❋ Various (N/A)
Off with your shoes and stockings and put on your gossamers. ❋ Lily Munsell Ritchie (N/A)
Now you and Frank, I know, are leashed with down; and when Mrs. Asmodeus went to the blacksmith, the Vulcan of our days, to order my fetters, she bespoke gossamers, to which a spider's web were cable. ❋ Various (N/A)
Quadrille follows quadrille, the waltz succeeds the schottish, the scene presents one bewildering maze of flaunting gossamers and girating bodies, now floating sylph-like into the foreground, then whirling seductively into the shadowy vista, where the joyous laugh dies out in the din of voices. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The men on the immense metal structure, hauling in ropes, looked like spiders with gossamers. ❋ T. S. Stribling (1923)
White, between 1867 and 1870, launched several attacks upon these ludicrous gossamers of speech, and particularly upon enceinte, limb and female, but only female succumbed. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)
The woods had wrapped fine-woven gossamers about them and the westering hill was crimson and gold. ❋ Lucy Maud (1911)
The event which first promised to destroy the new-spun gossamers of a religious faith and break them even on the day of their creation, in reality acted otherwise. ❋ Eden Phillpotts (1911)
