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a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 61 This is the Ayre-drawne-Dagger. View more context for this quotation

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Mouffet Theater of Insects in E. Topsell Hist. Four-footed Beasts 994 The boyes..exercise their air-fowling not without profit and pleasure.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 10 The air-built Castle, and the golden Dream.

1843 E. Miall in Nonconformist 3 537 An air-built castle, which dissolves away before the gaze of reason.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. xi. 232 Swallows..began their air-dance for the day.

1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xii The air-drawn picture of all the wondrous scenes that were in her memory.

1888 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 105 Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-built thoroughfare.

1894 W. D. Howells Lit. Friends & Acquaintance (1900) i. xvi. 59 I was a helplessly concrete young person, and all forms of the abstract, the air-drawn, afflicted me like physical discomforts.

1947 S. Sassoon Heart's Journey xxxi, in Coll. Poems (1984) 194 To music's air-built mesh Move thoughts for ever strange.

1992 O. Goldsmith First Wives Club ii. xi. 231 She had to stoop to receive the kiss—a real kiss, no social air-smack—that he planted on her cheek.