ensky
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of ensky
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Dunois and d'Aulon and the beautiful Duc d'Alençon, 'le beau Duc' as Joan called him, they all said that she was 'a thing enskied and sainted.'
From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)
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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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 Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)
However that may be, there, in Spangler's attic, was Haydn enskied, eager for work—work of any kind, so long as it had fellowship with music and brought him the bare means of subsistence.
From Haydn by Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert)
The enskied Madonna involves many technical difficulties of composition, and demands a high order of artistic imagination.
From The Madonna in Art by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
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 Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)
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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
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 Hubbard, Elbert
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 Alger, William Rounseville
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