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But any hopes Young has to make the city more heavenly may depend on his ability to heal some decidedly uncelestial bitterness sowed in his campaign's final days.

From Time Magazine Archive

What enabled him to see it so clearly was his familiarity with the ways of men and the uncelestial politics of Florence.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

It has an uncelestial scent, The clothing of this mendicant;" He cried, "That trickling down my spine Is anything but hyaline.

From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Scott, Duncan Campbell

Man’s angry heart, inspected, would be found As rightly set, as are the starry spheres; ’Tis Nature’s structure, broke by stubborn will, Breeds all that uncelestial discord there.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

And then, the big star of stars being once hers, she had, not in the lover kind alone, but in all uncelestial kinds, whole nebulae and milky-ways of small stars.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas