ensky
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of ensky
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Flags, in that wind, are like nations enskied.
From The New Morning Poems by Alfred Noyes
I failed against the affluent tide; Out of this abject earth of me I was translated and enskied Into the heavenly-regioned She.
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
To her right a green hill-side--each blade of grass, each flower, each tuft of heath, enskied, transfigured, by the broad light that poured across it from the hidden west.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward
They do not wish the public to gaze and simper at pieces which will probably be enskied or rejected, or hung at a dangerous corner next a popular picture.
From Lost Leaders by W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge
Others carry the subject into the more formal compositions of the enthroned and enskied Madonnas, being, as we have seen, not without illustrious predecessors among the old masters.
From The Madonna in Art by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
There will be a market for your wares, the critics will approve, and at the Salon your work will never be either enskyed nor consigned to the catacombs.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard
She is a thing enskyed and sainted, and yet we feel no incongruity in the love of the King of France for her, as we do in the love of the Duke for Isabella.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
I hold you as a thing enskyed, and sainted; By your renouncement an immortal spirit, And to be talked with in sincerity, As with a saint.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
It was one of her peculiar charms, and often brought to my mind the line addressed to the vowed Isabella, in Measure for Measure: I hold you for a thing enskyed and saintly.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
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