firmament
noun
the vault of heaven; sky.
firmamental
-
a word derived from
firmament.
Example Sentences
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By the absolute equalization of this movement—or of such as this—had the cycles of the firmamental orbs themselves been adjusted.
From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe
By the absolute equalization of this movement—or of such as this—had the cycles of the firmamental orbs themselves, been adjusted.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
Ye crystal firmamental bars That hold the skyey waters free From tide or tempest's ecstasy!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But there were certain early winter days in Casterbridge—days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests—when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
In this condition they are individually invisible; but collectively they send an amount of wave-motion to the retina, sufficient to produce the firmamental blue.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
