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Meanings of aery in English
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air.
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Examples for "eyrie"
Examples for "eyrie"
1
And now there rests but the eagle, in his last lonely eyrie.
2
From that lofty eyrie I had a comprehensive view of the vessel.
3
From his eyrie he could see half the West End of London.
4
Kynaston saw the proceeding from his eyrie, and uttered a shrill whistle.
5
He examined every inch of the eyrie, sniffing like a pointer dog.
1
I wonder how they got into the restricted area near the aerie?
2
But young Brightwing, she kept circling the aerie, crying out, all mournful.
3
Leaving me at Obi's camp while he goes on to the aerie.
4
If you find her at the aerie, bring her back to me.
5
It's as if I'm reliving the scorpion attack in the aerie basement.
1
They call us eaglets in sooth; and do eaglets rest for ever in their mountain eyry?
2
But the sky remained pitiless, and from my mountain eyry I could see the valley bottoms growing sere and yellow.
3
She went with them, and they left her alone on the ledge, where once the eagle's eyry used to be.
4
He mounted to this eyry every Friday night, so as to be reminded of the good old days at Schwartz's.
5
They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy.
Usage of aery in English
1
From his aery Kenkenes watched this particular phase of her tasks with interest.
2
The room shared its aery with a broad, square veranda, trellised and vine-covered.
3
Only to look down on her again, unseen, from his aery in the rocks over the valley!
4
Kenkenes from his aery watched her, noting with a softening countenance the almost maternal love that beautified her face.
5
The lovers, now that in an aery body they must sorrow for unconsummated love, are 'tangled up as the grass patterns are tangled.'
6
Also the biting ants may pursue you up to your aery perch and take small but effective bites in many itchable but unscratchable points.
7
Our legends tell of aery fountains upspringing in Eri, and how the people of long ago saw them not but only the Tuatha de Danaan.
8
Here and there, winged creatures launched from cliffside aeries, darting through the fog.
9
Aerys was in the Red Keep with several thousand loyalists.
10
Birds wheeled from their aeries and plummeted in white flashes to the sea, hunting food.
11
White-and-black flashes against the gloom, seabirds screamed as they soared from hidden aeries to the waters below.
12
Aerys is no part of this.
13
"Well, they won't be allowed to have an army or an aery--
14
High up in their remote aeries these monks had been patiently at work, generation after generation, compiling their lists of meaningless words.
15
For half a year Aerys was held within these very walls, whilst the King's Hand sat outside Duskendale with a mighty host.
16
"An aery," repeated Father Jervis-"anair-fleet , Imean