Floating cobweb

Usage examples of gossamer.

And lighter than the gossamer She led the bobbers following her, Past old acquaintances, and where They made the stranger stupid stare.

Newt buzzed into the air, his gossamer wings invisible with the speed of their flapping.

The sprite buzzed into the air, hovering on his gossamer wings, as the troll lumbered along beside him.

Iron muscles in leg and torso are vital in the danseur, who must help maintain the illusion that his whirling partner is made of fairy gossamer, seeking to wing skyward from his restraining arms.

No curve of her slender body was hidden by the single gossamer garment she wore, and in all his life Esterling had never seen a girl half so lovely.

With luck, one of them was small and blue and gauzily streaked with gossamer white.

On the hundreds of worlds explored and colonized during and after the Hegira, most of the indigenous life discovered had been plants and a few very simple organisms, such as the radiant gossamers on Hyperion.

In these split seconds I became aware that this spider-witch, capable of producing from its own fleshly case a string of ectoplasmic gossamer, could thereby reshape and refashion as it chose.

The gossamer cloth seemed like nothing more than a vaporish veil, bent on playing havoc with his senses.

Above the searing accretion disk, in hovering clouds, gossamer herds fed.

How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer.

Einstein had parchmenty skin, a soft nimbus of gossamer hair, green veins through which the young physicist could see the blood slowly move.

He walked through the gelatinous wall of his vessel and stepped out, unprotected except for a film of sparkling moisture and his pearlescent gossamer garment, onto black ice and grayish-white snow.

The alien Akerataeli appeared to be missing until Aenea pointed to a place far out among the branches where the microgravity was even less, and there -- between the gossamers and glowbirds -- floated the platelet beings.

In winter it was less so, but now, with spring but days away, the yellow and purple polyanthuses were flowering, and the cherry trees were thick with blossom, gossamer thin petals of faded coral.