What is "fleecy"

Usage examples of "fleecy".

Detroit began to roll away in fleecy masses, its foremost boats were discovered by a sentinel, who at once announced the joyful intelligence.

He sat on the floor with his knees drawn up to his chest, watching with bafflement as Merry-Death grabbed a fleecy robe from a wall hook, sliced him a quelling glare, unlocked the door, and shot away from him, faster than an arrow from a crossbow.

Victoria, with mild astonishment, while she stepped out of her felt slippers, placed her lavender flannel wrapper at the foot of the bed, and stretched her unconfined body, in the nainsook night-gown, between the fleecy blankets and embroidered sheets.

But when she looked beyond the brilliant diamond and far above the magical sea, there the lions stood, on their moonscape, shimmering silver as moonbeams caressed their fleecy coats.

Here and there one caught on the crest of some grey-bouldered knoll, and was teazed into fleecy threads that trailed melting instead of tangling.

The Dane Calthrops had a guest staying with them, an amiable elderly lady who was knitting something with white fleecy wool.

Was it really Aunt April with her soft hair dressed in fleecy Parisian curls, the carefree bite of autumn in her cheeks, her lilac-colored pelisse giving a lilylike delicacy to her spare frame rather than bluntly exposing it?

Indeed, generally speaking, they were clothed in clouds that lay in fleecy masses upon their broad and level battlements.

I was young and full of that zest which as leaked out of me and which we are journeying to recover for me by means of the great revitalizing properties of that, long fleecy golden thing of which the bards sing and the skalds sing and the Meistersingers sing, said the Dead Father.

The fleecy metaplasmic material readjusted its temperature where her hip touched his, to cope with the increase in body heat.

Above us were banks of fleecy clouds, the undersurfaces of which appeared to be lighted from beneath, while, through breaks in the cloud banks we could discern a luminous firmament beyond, though nowhere was there any suggestion of a central incandescent orb radiating light and heat as does our sun.

On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved.

All in a day, seemingly, the little fleecy lambs came, as if by magic, and filled the forest with piping bleats.

All in a day, seemingly, the little fleecy lambs came, as if by magic, and filled the forest with piping bleats.

Gemms of every gorgus coler under the heavens and some jest the coler of the heavens when it is blue and shinin' or when it is purplish dark in the night time, or when it is full of white fleecy clouds, or when it is a shinin' with stars.