| 单词 | gauze-like |
| 例句 | It was a lovely afternoon: white fleecy clouds lingered in the upper atmosphere, so gauze-like in texture as scarcely to diminish the sun’s rays when they passed over. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z This mantle is a gauze-like structure made of refractory quartz, or of certain oxides, which when heated by the gas flame produce an incandescent glow of intense brilliancy, with a reduced consumption of gas. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z It has a thick green, trilobate leaf, and a flower so delicate and gauze-like, that one wonders how it can bear for a moment the harsh storms to which it is exposed. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z She wore a soft, loose robe of black, with billowy gauze-like ruffles, and floating ribbons of the same sable hue, relieved only by a knot of purple wood violets at her throat. The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z Among the depths of Brazilian forests Bates was reading the story of evolution on the gauze-like wings of tropical butterflies. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z The most delicate branches of maiden's-hair fern were so intertwined among the various colored flowers as to form a gauze-like veil, so that one seemed to behold them through a transparent cloud of misty green. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands She wore a gown of some gauze-like material sprinkled with knots of embroidery and with her lifted face and filmy aureole of hair, she looked like a tall golden candle. The Valiants of Virginia At the conclusion of the meal Jean stood up in her place, her gauze-like veil floating behind her, and cut the great white cake, while the spectators broke into cheers of applause. A Question of Marriage Once she looked so lovely, with a thin gauze-like robe about her body, and various kinds of gauze over that. Waldfried A Novel “With a wild scream Farini endeavoured to support himself with his gauze-like wings.” A Prince of Good Fellows And see how the gauze-like shadows creep on from the sea, film after film!—and now they have reached the ivy that mantles round the castle of The Bruce. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative She still used a can opener as an aide-de-camp in housekeeping and laughed at snow flurries in her low shoes and gauze-like draperies. The Gorgeous Girl Her dress was only of white tarlatan, a thin, gauze-like material long out of fashion. An Orkney Maid What yards of snowy gauze-like cambric, with gold-embroidered ends, are wound in graceful folds round the fez, contrasting with the dark mahogany colour of his sun-burnt brow. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. At one end a great square keep arose, its amazing height looming gigantically in the gauze-like magic of the mist. A Prince of Good Fellows The forest of pinnacles beneath our feet, mingled with a labyrinth of ornamented spires, statues, flying buttresses, and Gothic fretwork, piled all about the roof, is seen through a gauze-like veil of golden mist. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Meanwhile the dead form showed through the fine, gauze-like stuff, and some gold work shone faintly through it as well. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Women bathe by the side of men, although they remain covered with the gauze-like garments that are a sop to modesty. The Critic in the Orient His dress was marked with bright shining stripes of a black and brimstone colour; and behind him a transparent head-covering hung in two gauze-like wings nearly down to the ground. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers There are some white markings on the wings of Spinus psaltria that give them a gauze-like appearance when they are rapidly fluttered. Birds of the Rockies There hung also over the land a slight gauze-like mist, which somewhat distorted objects. The Three Midshipmen Examining it, it proved to be a flimsy gauze-like wrap; it was not old, nor torn. The Rider in Khaki A Novel Now each returns, clad in his bright array; Skims o'er the grassy lake with gauze-like wings, Attracts their notice by his plumage gay, And they collect to hear the news he brings. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems Nor is the spray uniformly diffused through the air, but is wafted through it in successive veils of gauze-like texture. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Instead of the black heads and necks of their parents, and the white bills and frontal bones, these parts were tinted with red, which appeared quite bright and gauze-like in the sunshine. Birds of the Rockies He stood in awe at the portal, undecided as to just what to do, for, in the opening hung the gauze-like curtain that obstructed his view of the interior. The Black Phantom I suggested a canopy of our strong, gauze-like, creamy silk bolting-cloth, the tissue used in flour mills for sifting the superfine flour. The Development of Embroidery in America Still the sky remained obscured as before, and a gauze-like mist hung over the ocean. In the Wilds of Africa But no: it had not the filmy, gauze-like halo that hangs over the mirage. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse The grey gauze-like festoonery, having a resemblance to ascending smoke, hinders him from perceiving that of the discharged gun. The Death Shot A Story Retold They are accordingly represented as misty, shadowy beings, with graceful swaying forms, and robed in pale blue, gauze-like fabrics. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome A gauze-like veil overspread the sky, while we were surrounded by a thin mist of spray, which together completely prevented the sun’s beams from reaching us. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor A hundred yards is said to be the utmost extent of their flight; and that is a good flight, considering the weight of their bodies and the size of their gauze-like wings. My First Voyage to Southern Seas A thin, gauze-like mist was spread over the distant portions of the landscape. Hurricane Hurry A gauze-like mantilla covered her black hair, and, strange though it may seem, one woman's small waist and slim figure can be amazingly like the same physical attributes in another woman. The Stowaway Girl A large piece of gauze-like white cotton fabric. Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510 The jacket is made of a gauze-like abak� cloth dyed black, or preferably of black or blue imported cloth. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Your English, genuine home-made article, though as superior in strength and endurance as our own canvas is to the finest fold of gauze-like cambric, is in their opinion a thing not worth a thought. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 4, 1841 The animosity is already conceived, and waits only the removal of the gauze-like partition, to be able, with greater certainty of effect, to guide its instruments of destruction. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Even its foundations had naught in them more substantial than an evanescent dream of gauze-like web, frail as the spider's house upon the dew-hung grasses. The Mississippi Bubble For an instant spell-bound I stood; while with a slow, apprehensive movement, and still gazing fixedly, the captive gathered more closely about her a gauze-like robe. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Clothes became so gauze-like, and receded to such an extent from the limbs, that for a time the chemise was discarded as an awkward and antiquated garment. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism When ready to transform, this caterpillar spins a delicate gauze-like cocoon, Fig. Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 There lay the village in the lap of the hills, in summer time "bosomed high in tufted trees," but now only half veiled by the gauze-like green of the budding foliage. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 Beeswing, a gauze-like film which forms on the sides of a bottle of good port. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge These snails are placed upon a gauze-like substance, which, though firm enough to support them undisturbed, permits both their natural excretions, and their exudations under excitement, to filter through readily. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Then I saw through the lower folds of the cloudy garment, which grew thin and gauze-like as I gazed, a huge iron door, with folding leaves, and a great iron bar across them. Wilfrid Cumbermede There was a heavy dew, and the dust which had slowly risen formed long gauze-like strips of cloud against the sky. Sanine As the last golden ray disappeared on the horizon, a gauze-like veil of pale lilac fell over the world. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan And soon, from the tangled yet harmonious mazes of the dance, came forth a sylph-like form, her scarf floating behind her, as if she were fanning the air with gauze-like wings. Hyperion Her neck and shoulders, with their exquisite lines and curves, were more suggestively revealed than hidden by a slight drapery of gauze-like illusion, and her white rounded arms were bare. A Face Illumined Indeed, as we afterwards discovered, usually they were wrapped in this gauze-like mist, which doubtless accounted for our not having seen them more clearly before. King Solomon's Mines |
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