ensky
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of ensky
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She was no longer a pretty thing to be kissed, no longer even a handsome murderess; she was become a heroine, a martyr, a thing enskied and sainted.
From The Spanish Jade by William Henry Hyde
Her affection is winged, and in a moment she is enskied.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various
Arthur was not a thing "enskied and sainted;" rather a wholesome man, whose duty lay in working for men.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
When night fell, it was not a night of silver patterns enskied, but a dark and cloudy cloak where a few stars glittered fitfully.
From The Bat by Avery Hopwood
Oh Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde, they knew the sinks of shame; Their sun-aspiring wings they scorched at passion's altar flame; Yet lo! enthroned, enskied they stand, Immortal Sons of Fame.
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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
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
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
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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