skiey
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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“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 Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
For fire o'ermastered And licked up many things and burnt away, What time the impetuous horses of the Sun Snatched Phaethon headlong from his skiey road Down the whole ether and over all the lands.
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
He came to the green ocean's brim And saw the wheeling sea-birds skim, Summer and winter, o'er the wave, Like creatures of a skiey mould, Impassible to heat or cold.
From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Lo! see their bright thought-bodies zoom past trillions of Spirit-created planets, fresh bubbles of universes, wisdom-stars, spectral dreams of golden nebulae, all over the skiey blue bosom of Infinity!
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa
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 Crashaw, Richard
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