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Meanings of gossamer web in English

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Usage of gossamer web in English
1
Arousing from the most profound of slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
2
He refrained for some time from breaking through the gossamer web of the poet's fancy.
The Mountebank
3
It was sheerest gossamer web, and shimmered like moonlight.
The Little House in the Fairy Wood
4
Madame Orrery lay within, her hair draped across the pillow in a messy gossamer web.
The story of cirrus flux
5
The net came swirling out of the disk over Uncle Al like a great, dew-drenched gossamer web.
The Mississippi Saucer
6
It was a fragrance that had no weight, but it bound him-boundhim hand and foot in its gossamer web.
Through stained glass / A Novel
7
Nature, force, God, call it what you will, had drawn across my face a little gossamer web of essential life.
The Best Ghost Stories
8
Young love-making-thatgossamer web!
Middlemarch
9
He takes no pleasure in the mere spinning of gossamer webs for display.
The Pursuit of God
10
Early in the summer, I saw a stretch of hedgerow almost completely swathed in numerous gossamer webs.
The Irish Times
11
At a sudden movement, the gossamer webs would clamp him as tightly as a fly in a spiderweb.
Dogs of war
12
The square symbol on the spearhead glowed red and the gossamer webs hissed and sizzled where the spear touched them.
The Magician
13
"All right, put on two of these gossamer webs, two heavy sweaters and wrap yourself in oil skins and maybe you won't freeze."
The Root of Evil
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