And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costumes, -- rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference

Thanks to 3G and its gossamery 1. 5-pound portability, I can whip it out anywhere and work, navigate with the GPS, or just relax.    From Wordnik.com.  [freshnews.org - most clicked links] Reference

And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costume, -- rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gala-days] Reference

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 cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gala-days] Reference

Her light gossamery white dress was even more cloudy than usual; a softer, richer pink mantled her rounded cheeks; her big blue eyes were lustrous, and out of her parted lips poured a melody as sweet as a nightingale's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frances Kane's Fortune] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Second Year of the War] Reference

There are gossamery tears and silky oceans -- the first time, to be sure, that any body ever cried cobwebs, or that the sea was made of paduasoy. (.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

Six times his gossamery thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference

Thou fragile, filmy, gossamery thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference

Thou fragile, filmy, gossamery thing, 105.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference