sphery
Americanadjective
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having the form of a sphere; spherelike.
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pertaining to or resembling a heavenly body; starlike.
adjective
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resembling a sphere
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resembling a celestial body or bodies; starlike
Etymology
Origin of sphery
Example Sentences
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She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
Haply, even as we prate Of him HERE—in astral state— Or jackastral—he, elate, Brouses 'round, with sportive hops In far fields of sphery crops, Nibbling stars like clover-tops.
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye
She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by William Joseph Long
He not less will croak and croak As he ever caws and caws, Till the starry dance he broke, Till the sphery pæan pause, And the universal chime Falter out of tune and time.
From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson
Here it is:— A dazzling fiery show of sphery rainbows, Whereof each wonder, monarch of a moment, Yields up its glory to the next one's splendour, And sadly sinks into the arms of darkness.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
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