sparry

No human imagination can conceive, or words suffice to describe, the glorious radiance which, shot fiercely forth by the flame, was returned from so many hundred thousand points of reflection, afforded by the sparry pillars and their numerous angular crystals.

The Monastery 2008

We shot Bengal lights into the vaults and groins of the sparry cathedrals, and examined all the masterpieces which the four combined engineers, water, limestone, gravitation, and time, could make in the dark.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

Looking below me, the distant Sound and Long Island appeared to the east; the bay lay to the south, sprinkled with shipping; under me, the city, girded with bright rivers and sparry forests.

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

The fisherman could see no smoking chimneys, but there were grottoes in the sparry rocks, and halls in the marble hills, where lived the sea-people – with whom, as old stories say, fishermen and mariners used to meet on lonely capes and headlands in the simple times of the world.

Granny's Wonderful Chair 1928

A body whose external form has been modified by this process is called a crystal; one whose internal arrangement of parts is determined by it is said to be of a sparry structure, and this is known from its fracture.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

As the sparry rays dilating o'er his forehead climb

AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901

` ` Am trenching up the sparry-grass, and am gaun to saw some Misegun beans; they winna want them to their swine's flesh, I'se warrant --- muckle gude may it do them.

Rob Roy 1887

We will call them therefore the Enchanted Mountains, not the Goblin; perceiving gratefully also that the Rock spirits of them have really much more of the temper of fairy physicians than of gnomes: each -- as it were with sensitive hazel wand instead of smiting rod -- beckoning, out of sparry caves, effervescent Brunnen, beneficently salt and warm.

Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

We shot Bengal lights into the vaults and groins of the sparry cathedrals, and examined all the masterpieces which the four combined engineers, water, limestone, gravitation, and time, could make in the dark.

The Conduct of Life (1860) 1856

This last is found in pretty large masses, and sometimes mingled with sparry iron-ore, in the ravine of Tocume, to the west of the

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851