In his mug shot one notices his shirt, which is made of an exquisite, nearly gossamer fabric, and the frightening rage in his dark eyes.

Materials were found in a flash, fine silks, gossamer fabrics, plain linen to practice on first.

The result was an architectural sleight of hand: the gossamer fabric appeared to float in air.

Then she saw the feathery, high-heeled slippers sticking out from beneath a cascade of gossamer purple fabric.

With gossamer fabrics like paper taffeta, silk gazar, horsehair and chiffon, the clothes often appeared to float on air.

It was made of a fine gossamer fabric that clung to her smooth, flawless skin.

"The American experiment itself is a delicate venture, a gossamer fabric," he writes, and "its moral, spiritual and intellectual capital are in need of restoring."

In the farmhouse, writers, photographers and graphic artists have been known to read fairy tales aloud, to drape one another in gossamer fabric.

He touched Ilna's cheeks through the gossamer fabric.