"We shan't be able to observe anything but this fleeciness until we get to Mars.". From Wordnik.com. [Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record] Reference
Only the white fleeciness of morning mist had flitted sometimes over her summer-sky, deepening the blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
On the floors of the rooms were jaguar skins, with wonderful spots, and thick monkey furs of exquisite fleeciness. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
For sixty-five feet this miracle of snowy marble rises in the air, growing more lacey at every step until, in its terminal portions, so delicate does it become that it seems like the very clouds in fleeciness. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
In my day little French kids looked like nothing other than little French kids (we wore blue smocks in school); but Louise and Henry and their classmates dress much as their peers in the United States do, though with perhaps less Lands 'End fleeciness. From Wordnik.com. [A French Fourth] Reference
Split felt the cold fleeciness of new-fallen snow on her face, down her neck, up her sleeves. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
It smells temptingly of radish, and is distinguished from dozens of other innocuous members of the same family by a vague fleeciness on the cap and stem. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Feathery white panicles of the Starry Campion, whose protruding stamens and fringed petals give it a certain fleeciness, are dainty enough for spring; by midsummer we expect plants of ranker growth and more gaudy flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
The dense, light, semi-drooping foliage produces a cloud-like effect, to which the great masses of buff flowers add a delightful fleeciness, while the ripe pods, much twisted and involved (to carry similitude as far as it may), might be likened to dull lightning in thunderous vapour. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Only the chirpings of those strange birds as they seek rest in darkness, the soft gurgling of the little stream below, and the rustle of countless leaves, break the silence with a satisfying existence, while the loneliness of that great star, your sun, is lost in its tintings of soft color, the fleeciness of the clouds, and the seeming companionship of green hills. From Wordnik.com. [Invaders from the Infinite] Reference
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