It was there that Athena Durdon, her beauty made the more nymph-like and ethereal by the opalescent light of a May moon, consented to exchange the meagre life which had been led by her in the past as daughter of the British Vice-Consul at Athens, for the life she had only known-but known how well!
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
A clouded eye, a fumbling touch, and the most ethereal idea becomes its travesty-the purest line debased.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
As a matter of fact, he had only caught the last word or two, for while Arkroyd had been talking he had been thinking of that other beautiful girl-not a doll, with teeth and a smile, but an angel, pure and ethereal-a dream-not a fascinating heiress.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice