'There are neither butterflies nor gossamers here.' 'Look for yourself, then!'

To our left a great hill, all huge and damp, glittering with gossamers, and smelling of restless yellow leaves, shouldered the morning sky.

Wandering away from that, she would utter a little cry of joy at the unexpected sight of some reclining marble nymph, over which a little fountain threw a transparent veil of gossamer sparkling with diamonds.

My cushions are pearly gossamers frail, My mast is a tapering reed, My rudder a blush-rose petal pale, My ballast of wild-flower seed.

Adj. narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like &c (filament) 205; finespun^, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious^; contracted &c 195; unexpanded &c (expand) &c 194

feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.

There was a heavy dew which got through my boots before we had gone half a mile, and though there was no moon, the sky was very clear, and I could see the veil of gossamers spread silvery white over the grass.

The light lines from the shining gossamer." Richard Folkard, Plant Lore, London, 1892, p. 503.]

So they had folded their gossamer wings with resignation, receiving his polite attentions with pleasure, yet never being able to penetrate the reserve which hung around him.

Some of these instances are simply hints, upon which the fervid imagination will spin imaginary love yarns in endless gossamer.

But the same subtilty of mind, which sometimes seduces Mr. Wedgwood into making distinctions without a difference and preferring an impalpable relation of idea to a plain derivative affinity, is of great advantage to him when the problem is to construct an etymology by following the gossamer clews that lead from sensual images to the metaphorical and tropical adaptations of them to the demands of fancy and thought.

Soon you will gain the mastery of heavier implements than you begin with, and will understand how yonder slight youth has learned to handle his two heavy clubs in complex curves that seem to you inexplicable, tracing in the air a device as swift and tangled as that woven by a swarm of gossamer flies above a brook, in the sultry stillness of the summer noon.

In the garden by the brook-side the tall willow-herbs are seeding; the pods are bursting, and the gossamer-like, grey downthe "silver mist" of Tennysonis conspicuous all along the brook.

From some verses addressed to various individuals of the other sex, it appears, notwithstanding all this gossamer-work, that Johnny's affectations are not entirely confined to objects purely etherial.

Thy gown should be snow-white silk, And strings of orient pearls, Like gossamers dipp'd in milk, Should twine with thy raven curls.

Across this gossamer causeway, vehicles are required to walk, under a heavy penalty for any breach of this rule.

Another catches a fine frenzy from the "Shares," and regulates his day's movements "the very air o' the time" by their importand hence he dreams of gold and gossamer, or sits torturing his imagination with writs and executions that await adverse fortune.

Here is not only a Thing of Beauty, but a Joy for Ever, wrought by elfin fingers, fashioned of gossamer threads at once fine and prehensile.

The whole work is, however, light as gossamer: we had almost said that a fly might read it through the meshes, without endangering his patience or liberty.

" Not known of his keepers by that name, though as the famous Major Kincaid of Kincaid's Battery (the latter at Mobile with new guns), all July and August he had been of those who looked down from such windows; looked down often and long, yet never descried one rippling fold of one gossamer flounce of a single specimen of those far-compassionated "ladies of New Orleans," one of whom, all that same time, was Anna Callender.

Spider-webbing is a scarcely more gossamer-like fabric.

So Ethelyn's white satin brushed against the gossamer thing, which floated upward for a moment, and then settled back upon the heavy, shining folds.

People like the moth, Of mechlin, frames, Duties of gossamer, And eider names.

Pale gossamers of gold, farewell, sweet-dreaming Fanciesthe children that an Eden bore! Blossoms that died while dawn itself was gleaming, Opening in happy sunlight never more.

She was a little, delicious blond, with hair spun of gossamer gold and wide blue eyes that were but slightly veiled by the long lashes.