Etymology
Origin of skyey
Example Sentences
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Thy cradle rocks to skyey breathings, Bright fall Love's shadows on you and me.
From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)
Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.
From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Against the skyey beach of cloud-shells it reared like a grim cliff.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
Mr. Perry takes a distinction, and regards Indra as a god, not of sky, but of air, a midgarth between earth and sky, who inherited the skyey functions of Dyu.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
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