firmament
noun
the vault of heaven; sky.
firmamental
-
a word derived from
firmament.
Example Sentences
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Just after sunset the leaden skies cleared, and the starred firmamental blue of a Canadian winter night replaced them.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
O the precipice Titanic Of the congregated Fall, And the angle oceanic Where the deepening thunders call— And the Gorge so grim, And the firmamental rim!
From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville
The stars in that firmamental region which we were leaving behind us, would, in a very long series of years, become crowded; those in the opposite quarter, scattered.
From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar A. Poe
Our firmamental cluster contains, it has been calculated, in round numbers about twenty million stars.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
He overflows The firmamental walls with deity, Therefore with love; his lightnings go abroad, His pity may do so, his angels must, Whene'er he gives them charges.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
