Слово "gossamer". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

And the chief thing demanded by these intricacies of civilisation was control, restraint—a poise of self that was as delicate as the fluttering of gossamer wings and at the same time as rigid as steel.

The chatter of the peasants; the rumbling of horses and waggons; the joyous cries of quails; the hum of insects as they hung suspended in the motionless air; the smell of the soil and grain and steam from our horses; the thousand different lights and shadows which the burning sun cast upon the yellowish–white cornland; the purple forest in the distance; the white gossamer threads which were floating in the air or resting on the soil–all these things I observed and heard and felt to the core.

I drifted like a gossamer; the ground seemed to me a cloud, the hills a feather-weight, the air to have a current, like a running burn, which carried me to and fro.

I looked at it. It was a little thing with a veil of gossamer on its head.

It was a simple gown, caught lightly at the waist by a gossamer thread.

Arousing from the most profound of slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.