10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOSSAMERY»
Discover the use of
gossamery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gossamery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Limp strawberry blonde hair lay across the water-line and swirled below the
surface, gossamery seaweed. The bath overflowed. The water lapped over the
high enamel sides forming puddles on the cement floor. The slow trickle of hot
water ...
Francesca Rendle-Short, 1996
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Select Poetry for Children ... Thirteenth edition
Six times his gossamery' thread The wary spider threw ; In vain the filmy line was
sped, For powerless or untrue Each aim appeared, and back recoiled The patient
insect, six times foiled, And yet unconquered still; And soon the Bruce, with ...
Joseph PAYNE (Professor at the College of Preceptors.), 1858
Every affection of a man's heart has pendent to it a fine thread of sentiment,
floating down into the outer air; often these threads are finer than the most
delicate silk— finer than the gossamery lines of a spider's web — ay, so fine as to
be utterly ...
John Cordy Jeaffreson, 1864
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The Woman Who Rode Away
It was only the soft evanescence of gossamery things which nowseemed to him
permanent. Thevery mist ofeternity wasin them. Whereas stone buildings,
cathedrals for example, seemed to him to howl with temporary resistance,
knowing they ...
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Select poetry for children: with notes, arranged by J. Payne
Joseph Payne. His filmy thread to fling From beam to beam of that rude cot ; And
well the insect's toilsome lot Taught Scotland's future king. Six times his
gossamery [i] thread The wary spider threw ; In vain the filmy line was sped, For ...
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Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
It was only thesoft evanescenceof gossamery things which now seemedtohim
permanent. The very mistofeternity was in them. Whereas stone buildings,
cathedrals for example, seemed to himto howl with temporary resistance,
knowing they ...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser
With smiles benign thy ardent vot'ry hear, Hang o'er his eye thy gossamery tear.' *
••••* * Compatriot trav'lers o'er life's barren heath, Who draw with me cotemporary
breath, For whom, aJsecHon's dewy vapours rife.' ****** ' Or as the western ...
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Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
gossamery things which now seemed to him permanent. The very mist of eternity
was in them. Whereas stone buildings, cathedrals for example, seemed to him to
howl with temporary resistance, knowingtheymust fallat last;the tension oftheir ...
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Merriam-Webster's Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
... seedy, tacky, tatty 6 cheesy, common, flabby, flimsy, floppy, paltry, shabby,
shoddy, slight, trashy 7 flaccid, run-down, tenuous 9 gossamery 10 broken-down,
down-at- heel 1 1 dilapidated 1 2 disreputable sled 4 luge, pung 6 sleigh 7
coaster, ...
Standard V., “Six times the gossamery thread the wary spider threw": “Gossamery
,” noun (numerous cases) ; “threw,” ... a verb; “ thread," nominative to “ wary "; “
threw," verb, &c., objective, gov. by “ threw"; “thread,” nominative to “gossamery.
New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, 1898
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOSSAMERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
gossamery is used in the context of the following news items.
St Vincent: 10 of the best
It marches almost militarily, as a ghostly, gossamery refrain wafts over it almost ignoring the moving structure below; perhaps it represents the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
UK gamblers betting on Damian Lewis as next James Bond, but …
They also entertain… gossamery competitions. This week, William Hill witnessed a spike in its “Who Will Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond ... «Bloguin, Jun 15»
Gamblers Think They Know Daniel Craig's Bond Successor
They also entertain… gossamery competitions. This week, William Hill witnessed a spike in its "Who Will Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond ... «Esquire.com, Jun 15»
Scottish Ballet's Erotic Streetcar Named Desire Raises …
The gossamery manner in which she steps on and off pointe and makes swift, fine-grained changes between quarter-pointe and full pointe, ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
Restaurant Review: Remedy
Later may come a pie's gossamery marshmallow meringue, shiny and tight; a sundae's crunch of potato chips against soft whipped cream. This is the school of ... «D Magazine, Apr 15»
Five Animals Who Can't Even With This Heat
... will hover in the low 90s, which is too hot for wearing those gossamery excuses for scarfs that we all don like cold-weather Girl Scout badges. «LA Magazine, Mar 15»
Damon Albarn – 10 of the best
... wounded place suited them. Beetlebum still crackles with an analgesic beauty, a lucid and gossamery dream where one is free from danger. «The Guardian, Feb 15»
The mixtape: Tamworth country music festival special
With flames of red hair, Chilcott's gossamery tones and lyrics that refuse to draw on any country cheer to gloss over hardship, make her ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
Power Plays by Robert Dekkers for Post:Ballet
The tentative, gossamery explorations of space in Flutter and Sixes and Seven, however, give way in this piece to a hyper-aggressive ... «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
Going Locavore at Waking Windows 4
debut record, including from the scribes at NME magazine, who get bonus points for using the word "gossamery" to describe Bryan Parmelee's ... «Seven Days, Apr 14»
