ensky
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of ensky
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Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.
From Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne
In February 1865 Tennyson lost the mother whose portrait he drew in Isabel,—"a thing enskied and sainted."
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
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
She was to me "a thing enskied" and heavenly--for all her quick human interests, and her sweet ways with those she loved.
From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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
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
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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