Then he went across the room and fetched the hat, the light gossamer hat, with flowers in it, that still hung on a peg.
A light gossamer hat, gay with flowers, hung on a peg at the side of the room.
Shimmering, like the gossamer threads of a spider's spinning, they wove upward, around and over the chair, so that he who sat there would be completely surrounded by the gleaming mesh.
The silk fibers were seen to be wires, threads of silver gossamer that interconnected the five emerging bulks in a maze of ordered complexity.
Even thoughts, transient and gossamer as they may appear, do their work in our brains and leave their permanent impress with us.
But it is just these delicate, sensitive folk, susceptible to the gossamer impulses that would never even ruffle the surface of the average man's mind, who are open to the urge of spirit and responsive to its "drive.
Their eyes were not only shut, but a slight, very fine gossamer thread seemed drawn across them.
Never mind your dark dresses," returned he; "you will not find the gossamer fabrics that deck the belles of Saratoga in fashion here.
My bonnet of blue, my bonnet of blue, Its gossamer fineness I'll sing to you; For a delicate fabric in sooth it was, All trimmed and finified off with gauze.
Wogan turned towards the voice which had so startled him and saw the gossamer lady whom he had befriended on the road from Florence.
Do thou listen very tenderly for my voice, for I am of gossamer and thou of strangely heavy clay.
O wonderful and mysterious soul, more fragile than gossamer and yet so strong that she may stand in the Presence of God and not perish!
The epithets of pity which the happier birds invent to describe man are woven, as it were, of gossamer and dew, symbols of fragility.
Georges, watching the silvery gossamer webs of the spiders, remembered all the visions he had ever had of liberty and space for kind animals and kind people.
Oh, don't let us hasten home," pleaded poor Madge, who felt that this might be her only chance to throw about him the gossamer threads which would draw the cord and cable that could bind him to her.
With the pure genius of love she threw about his mind gossamer threads, drew the filaments together, and held them in her heart.
It seemed to stick to the body where it touched, even to seek the flesh where it did not touch, that it might cling like gossamer with invisible tentacles.
Their loose hair streamed out in the wind, their light gossamergowns streamed the same way, whipped about their limbs as close as wet muslin.
The garment was a dark blue, and Mr. Jenney felt of itsgossamer weight with a good-natured contempt.
Six of these gossamer ropes were taken up, and again six.
But now she was strongly under the spell of the new ideas hovering like shining, gossamerspirits just beyond her reach, that she sought to grasp and correlate.
The crests behind them deepened in purple as the saffron faded in the west, and a gossamer cloud of Tyrian dye floated over Holdfast.
The gossamer is a sign both of approaching autumn and, exactly at the opposite season of the year, of approaching spring.
In some cases they had recourse to a gossamer tissue of silk gauze, as was formerly the custom in Paris, Chicago, and San Francisco.
The figure was draped with spangled black gauze, through which the girl's marble white limbs gleamed like ivory seen through gauze of gossamer transparency.
For the psychic lines of attraction between two human beings are finer than the finest gossamer and can be easily broken and scattered even though they may or must be brought together again after long lapses of time.
Her wealth of beautiful black hair was fastened up with a barbe of gossamer lace, and the only ornament she wore around her neck was a delicate gold chain, to which was attached a miniature of Louis set in superb brilliants.
The long lace sleeves drooped in gossamer waves over the dress, leaving bare her round, fair arms, firm and white as those of the Venus of Milo.
Goss~, a hat--from the gossamer silk of which modern hats are made.
He was more struck with the phenomenon, because on the previous day a strong gale of wind had blown from the south, and as gossamer is only seen in calm weather, it must have been all produced within a very short time.
But, as it may prove more interesting to keep to one individual, we shall first watch the proceedings of the gossamer spider.
Face to face with a woman like Sally Madeira the thought of a woman like Miss Gossamer must necessarily stay hazy in a man's brain.
Time was when he had agreed with Miss Gossamer that only people who had known each other a long time, as he and she had, could depend upon their attitude toward each other.
Steering, remembering Miss Gossamer again, and trying to explain her to himself, "how can a man help loving prettiness!
But though in the meantime she had learned how to meet men and how to treat them--capably, Elsie Gossamer said--she had not found herself.
Once it occurred to her that life would have been much simpler if she had gone to Europe the past fall, as Miss Elsie Gossamer had insisted upon her doing.
She sent a bare-footed boy inside to post a letter to Elsie Gossamer and to ask Mr. Steering to come out to her.
The rest was a somewhat gossamer and idealistic matter which her youth exaggerated in importance.
It was all a fabric woven of gossamer threads, but Gulliver was bound into helplessness by just such Lilliputian fetters.
She was sitting with the moonlight waking her dark hair into a somber luster and a gossamer shimmer on the white of her evening gown.
The wild rose in her cheeks was blooming warmly through the gossamer she wore to hide them and her blue eyes were lifted trustfully to her lover's.
Surely the freshness of her cheeks was a gossamer projection from a land of delicate and undiscovered shades; her hand gleaming on the stained table-cloth was a shell from some far and wildly virginal sea.
There were pauses that seemed about to shatter and were only to be snatched back to oblivion by the tightening of his arms about her and the sense that she was resting there as a caught, gossamer feather, drifted in out of the dark.
