Skies

Examples

• Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine, and the skies cloudless. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She makes animals and birds in wood and in clay, that the people in London write about in the papers, praising them to the skies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At the first flush of dawn in the gray eastern skies, the Melnosians were on the alert and ready for the fight. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Lead her from the festive boards, Point her to the starry skies, Guard her, by your truthful words, Pure from courtship's flatteries. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Gray skies, small cultivated landscapes, ugly cities, sad-looking men and women. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• As the voyage of Columbus had brought a new world in the western ocean to the notice of Europe, so Galileo’s discoveries with his telescope brought forth a new world in the skies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Perhaps, translated to another sphere, Thy spirit--like thy light, refined and clear-- Ballooned with purest hydrogen, shall rise, And add a PATENT PLANET to the skies. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Lead us to some sunny isle, Yonder in the western deep; Where the skies for ever smile, And the blacks for ever weep, &c. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• To-day he commanded all Helium's great terrors of the skies, and I was a Prince of the House of Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• No; fresh air and blue skies. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• No more deep blue skies or crimson and amber tints. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• My full heart it replies, They are born from the skies, And gives glory to God and the Lamb! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am weary of the crowded cities, the haggard faces, the gray skies of England. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But, for want of a form of words in which to express the idea, it returned to the skies. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I mentioned my reason for desiring to avoid observation in the village, and he lauded it to the skies. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Just now I feel as if twenty years' hard study of law would be amply rewarded by one year of such an exquisite serene life as this--such skies! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This was the centre, the knot, the navel of the world, where the earth belonged to the skies, pure, unapproachable, impassable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It appeared to pierce the skies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They tore aside the veil which hid our eyes, And showed us unknown worlds and unknown skies. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• How splendid that month seemed whose skies had beheld the rising of these five stars! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His fame spread, like the sound of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He will hurl no darts at me, and your pale sun in England is but a shadow of the glorious Helios of our Greek skies. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow-beings. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Streams of fire ran down the hills into the sea, and at length a blaze arose so loftily that it touched the skies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Phil