heaven-born
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of heaven-born
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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March 22, the day I held my sweet heaven-born baby so still and so silent.
From New York Times
March 22, the day I held my sweet heaven-born baby so still and so silent.
From New York Times
He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.
From Forbes
Part of the myth of Pitt the "heaven-born minister", the "pilot who weathered the storm", the most resilient of a resilient ruling class, is the notion that, at the same time as he was saving Britain from invasion by the French, he was holding back a swelling tide of home-grown revolutionaries.
From The Guardian
This object, now so happily accomplished, had been his aim for years: for this he had resisted his inward impulse to go abroad and visit distant climes, and seek a fortune more genial to his bounding spirit; steadily had he pursued his calling, and faithfully labored and stored away his earnings with almost a miser's care, to gratify this heaven-born, filial love, and in some hour of exquisite delight enjoy his long, long-treasured wish.
From Project Gutenberg
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