They are accordingly represented as misty, shadowy beings, with graceful swaying forms, and robed in pale blue, gauze-like fabrics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

Or maybe it was the lone shrimp trawler, aimlessly circling off the coast, dragging a saturated gauze-like boom behind it, accomplishing nearly nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Yarnold: Somewhere Over the Gulf Coast: A "Glee" and BP Oil Disaster Mashup] Reference

He stood in awe at the portal, undecided as to just what to do, for, in the opening hung the gauze-like curtain that obstructed his view of the interior.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Phantom] Reference

When ready to transform, this caterpillar spins a delicate gauze-like cocoon, Fig. 25, e, made of white, silken threads, on the under side of a cabbage leaf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891] Reference

Crape was a thin transparent gauze-like plain woven fabric, without any twill, consisting of highly twisted raw silk, mechanically embossed with a minutely wrinkled surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Hume] Reference

What yards of snowy gauze-like cambric, with gold-embroidered ends, are wound in graceful folds round the fez, contrasting with the dark mahogany colour of his sun-burnt brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

MCCARRON: It was -- I don't know if it was a random check or something suspicious, but what happens is they wipe the shoes, external part of the shoes, with a gauze-like material.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2002] Reference

Oh! was not that glorious sunburst, penetrating the vaporous, gauze-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Planter's Northern Bride] Reference

But no: it had not the filmy, gauze-like halo that hangs over the mirage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

A thin, gauze-like mist was spread over the distant portions of the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane Hurry] Reference

Examining it, it proved to be a flimsy gauze-like wrap; it was not old, nor torn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rider in Khaki A Novel] Reference

Still the sky remained obscured as before, and a gauze-like mist hung over the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilds of Africa] Reference

In one of her beds, vegetables are covered with a white, gauze-like cloth Weiner calls agro-ribbon.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In the end Wulf purchased a veil of gauze-like silk worked with golden stars as a Christmas gift for Rosamund.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brethren] Reference

There was a heavy dew, and the dust which had slowly risen formed long gauze-like strips of cloud against the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanine] Reference

Women bathe by the side of men, although they remain covered with the gauze-like garments that are a sop to modesty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Critic in the Orient] Reference

A snowy-white and gauze-like drapery seemed to be nearly the sole covering to her delicate form — but the midsummer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference

Meanwhile the dead form showed through the fine, gauze-like stuff, and some gold work shone faintly through it as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference

Nor is the spray uniformly diffused through the air, but is wafted through it in successive veils of gauze-like texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

Here I often lay for hours, covered with a gauze-like veil of tappa, while Fayaway, seated beside me, and holding in her hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life] Reference

I suggested a canopy of our strong, gauze-like, creamy silk bolting-cloth, the tissue used in flour mills for sifting the superfine flour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference

Alpine scenery is greatly enhanced by the wild and weird movements of the gauze-like drapery with which it is almost always partially enshrouded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rivers of Ice] Reference

Clothes became so gauze-like, and receded to such an extent from the limbs, that for a time the chemise was discarded as an awkward and antiquated garment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism] Reference

A gauze-like veil overspread the sky, while we were surrounded by a thin mist of spray, which together completely prevented the sun's beams from reaching us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor] Reference

Indeed, as we afterwards discovered, usually they were wrapped in this gauze-like mist, which doubtless accounted for our not having seen them more clearly before.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Solomon's Mines] Reference

For an instant spell-bound I stood; while with a slow, apprehensive movement, and still gazing fixedly, the captive gathered more closely about her a gauze-like robe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference

A hundred yards is said to be the utmost extent of their flight; and that is a good flight, considering the weight of their bodies and the size of their gauze-like wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference

Then I saw through the lower folds of the cloudy garment, which grew thin and gauze-like as I gazed, a huge iron door, with folding leaves, and a great iron bar across them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilfrid Cumbermede] Reference

And soon, from the tangled yet harmonious mazes of the dance, came forth a sylph-like form, her scarf floating behind her, as if she were fanning the air with gauze-like wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hyperion] Reference

The mist rose thin and gauze-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'] Reference

Skims o'er the grassy lake with gauze-like wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems] Reference