skiey
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Whether heaven's eye should deck His skiey brow, Or the Child's star adorn heaven's forehead now.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
Place on His skiey forehead heaven's eye, Not less 'twould deem itself in its own sky.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
I said to dawn: Be sudden—to eve: Be soon; With thy young skiey blossoms heap me over From this tremendous Lover!
From Poems by Francis Thompson
Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
“Speak, speak again!” thus Ráma cried, With reverent palm to palm applied, But from the frame the spirit fled And to the skiey regions sped.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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