All 7 Uses of
gossamer
in
Hyperion
- Even in the still shadowed places, glowbirds nestled like Japanese lanterns above lighted walkways, glowing swingvines, and illuminated hanging bridges, while fireflies from Old Earth and radiant gossamers from Maul-Covenant blinked and coded their way through labyrinths of leaves, mixing with constellations sufficiently to fool even the most starwise traveler.†
Part 1
- A second ago an insect or bird the size and color of a hummingbird but with gossamer wings a meter across paused five meters out to inspect me before diving toward the sea with folded wings.†
Part 1 *
- Aboard the Girandole, Old Kady lights the lanterns and candle-globes hanging from the sagging second tier and, as if not to be outdone, the darkened jungle begins to glow with the faint phosphorescence of decay while glowbirds and multihued gossamers can be seen floating from branch to branch in the darker upper regions.†
Part 1
- Nothing stirred except the tiny arboreais and gossamers we had seen flitting through the trees yesterday.†
Part 1
- As true darkness fell, innumerable prairie gossamers-much paler than their forest cousins, but also of greater wingspan, luminescent shades the size of small children-danced in the vales and valleys of the gently rolling hills.†
Part 3
- Radiant gossamers, beautiful even in daylight, flitted among tropical vegetation of a hundred hues.†
Part 5
- it brilliantly, festooned with colored lanterns and shifting veils of gossamer light.†
Part 6
Definition:
characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
or:
so thin as to transmit light
or:
so thin as to transmit light