thin-spun

De la Mare paints simple scenes of miniature loveliness; he uses thin-spun fragments of fairy-like delicacy and achieves a grace that is remarkable in its universality.

Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

De la Mare paints simple scenes of miniature loveliness; he uses thin-spun fragments of fairy-like delicacy and achieves a grace that is remarkable in its universality.

Biographical Sketches Louis Untermeyer 1920

Oh, madam, I am tempted glibly to compare your eyes to sapphires, and your hair to thin-spun gold, and the color of your flesh to the arbutus-flower -- for that, as you can see, would be within the truth, and it would please most women, and afterward they would not be so obdurate.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

There is a spacious hospitality about the man's genius which is a rare tonic to weary aesthetes, sick of the thin-spun theories of the schools.

Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

The watcher became then an eye, a rigidity, an intense out-thrusting and ransacking of thin-spun distance.

Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916

Oh, madam, I am tempted glibly to compare your eyes to sapphires, and your hair to thin-spun gold, and the color of your flesh to the arbutus-flower -- for that, as you can see, would be within the truth, and it would please most women, and afterward they would not be so obdurate.

The Certain Hour 1909

Beatrice, rudely shattering his thin-spun tissue of optimism.

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

Was it conceivable that this mad monster of mankind would ever be caught and held in the thin-spun webs of thought?

Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

Olympian victor, and has no eyes for his neighbour there, who is burying a child; _that_ thin-spun thread escapes his notice.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

We shall all be too suddenly solemnised when the last grain of our measured - out sand has dropped down, and the blind Fury will come, and without pity and without remorse will slit our thin-spun life with her abhorred shears.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894