gauze-winged

The ancestral shade was a birth-place, an abiding-place, a cemetery, and the soil grew ever richer, and the thick-trunked tree displayed its ruddy flowers and gave of its best in nectar for birds and butterflies and gauze-winged, ever-flitting creatures.

Tropic Days 2003

Never more may you bask and blink in the glare, or doze in the knife-edged shadows, or pounce upon gauze-winged flies.

My Tropic Isle 2003

From this perspective, it looked like a honey-comb, fuzzy wigged heads and gauze-winged dresses bobbing to and fro across the six-sided tiles, buzzing busily over glasses filled with the nectar of brandywine and porter.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

Readers of _Chatterbox_, who combine a love of natural history with a fondness for boating, have probably many a time watched the gauze-winged dragon-fly hawking for flies.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Summer was upon the land, early summer, with the sweet winds stirring upon the waters, with gauze-winged creatures flitting above the, shallows where willow and vine-maple fringed the edges and silver fish leaped to their undoing, with fleecy clouds floating in a sapphire sky, and birds straining their little throats in the forest.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

Lathrop, and Mrs. Piatt; all this, punctuated by a patter of polite applause from a hundred seated guests, and followed by a supper, made the second issue of my gauze-winged creature of an hour an occasion both merry and memorable.

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

Up this stream of quivering, scintillating irradiation, as brilliant as flashing water in the sun, flew from the land thousands of gauze-winged insects, the great moths of the night, wondrous, shimmering bits of life, seeming all fire in the strange atmosphere.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

To Hilda's excited fancy, it seemed the spirit of the place, changed by some wizardry into bird form, crouching there amid the ruins of the forest where once it had flitted and frolicked, a gauze-winged sprite.

Hildegarde's Neighbors Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

It has not feathers of the usual sort, is not fledged all over like some, nor provided with quill - feathers like other birds, but resembles locusts, grasshoppers, and bees in being gauze-winged, this sort of wing being as much more delicate than the ordinary as Indian fabrics are lighter and softer than Greek.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

She could almost see, from the far mountain upon which she stood, the airy, gauze-winged forms of the fairies themselves, floating gently amidst their pretty palaces and moving gracefully along the jeweled streets.

Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland 1887