Heavens

Examples

• We had the phenomenon of a full moon located just in the same spot in the heavens at the same hour every night. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Galileo soon thereafter greatly improved and increased its capacity, and was the first to direct it towards the heavens. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If they are really good specimens--Great heavens, is it you? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• From the East Heavens! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I thank God, that I have beheld his throne, the heavens, and earth, his footstool. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I have been so unlucky already in giving you pain without having any such intentions, before the holy Heavens! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• As I was saying, Mr.-- Heavens, Professor, a lion? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Heavens, Meejor! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This unity is like the sun in the heavens, the light by which all things are seen, the being by which they are created and sustained. Plato. The Republic.
• As t hey advanced in knowledge they looked to the stars for guidance, especially to the pole star and the imperishable star-group of the northern heavens. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Great heavens! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It was impossible for Monseigneur to dispense with one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his high place under the admiring Heavens. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• By heavens, it's the couple, Pickwick,' exclaimed the old gentleman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The old man, leaning on his son, walked each day at noon, when it did not rain, as I found it was called when the heavens poured forth its waters. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

Typist: Murray