How To Use Firmament In A Sentence
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You must not grow - you must be as unchanging and constant as the firmament.
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Can the whole firmamental creation in its turn be nothing but a corner of some mightier scheme?
Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall
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As he checked his appearance in the mirror he mused on what it meant to be a star without a firmament.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Admittedly he was rich, and a rising star in the political firmament.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
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Then he looked at the twain and saw them dig a grave and therein bury the slain bird; after which they flew away far into the firmament and disappeared for a while; but presently they returned with the murtherer-bird and, alighting on the grave of the murthered, stamped on the slayer till they had done him to death.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This time, the suddenness of the fall was reinforced by the fact that it immediately followed her latest explosive re-entry into the political firmament.
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Little space was devoted to the fact that a sporting success-starved nation suddenly had a youthful role model, an ambassador who could put India's name on the tennis firmament.
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It is proving a big leap, this transition from man-child to leading light in the athletics firmament.
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Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
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The scattered fragments strewed the ground like stars bespangling the firmament.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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With Bush's eyes fixed somewhere above and beyond the firmament, there is every opportunity to belt him severely in the fundament.
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Socrates was put to death, but the Socratic philosophy rose like the sun in heaven, and spread its illumination over the whole intellectual firmament.
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The heavens cry and moan as the wind's rage stirs up the burning tempest of the sky, tears are unleashed from the firmament, cold and tasteless.
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Of course the 35-year-old is way too grounded to ever imagine herself enthroned in the Hollywood firmament.
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We await with interest word of their further plans for this rising star of an upcoming mid-tier production company in the gold mining firmament.
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The stars that sprent the firmament when overly stelliferous --
Tobogganing on Parnassus
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Tunc dixit Deus, Sint luminaria in firmamentum coeli, ut dividant diem a nocte, et sint in signa, et stata tempora, et dies, et annos:
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
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Such darkly shadowed taluses under an open, light-filled firmament just waiting to ravenously warm every windblown, cascading, double-trunked forest shrub and errant piece of fossilized driftwood on the esker.
Sunday Salon: The Cover of J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands
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The 'higher deities' are the two last in these five Deva worlds which, by the Buddhists, were included with hell, the Peta's or ghosts, animals, men, Asuras, and firmamental spirits, in the 'Kāmaloka of sense-desire,' inferior in space to the Heavens of 'Form' and the 'Formless.'
Psalms of the Sisters
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It never was, never will be Besides, if there be infinite planetary and firmamental worlds, as [6610] some will, there be infinite genii or commanding spirits belonging to each of them; and so, per consequens (for they will be all adored), infinite religions.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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According to Greek mythology, the Sun-god Helios wearing a yellow robe rode in a golden chariot drawn by four fiery horses across the heavenly firmament.
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The maps of the firmament recalled to them, or if necessary taught them, this part of their duties: they there saw the planets and the _decani_ sail past in their boats, and the constellations follow one another in continuous succession.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
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Here, away from the street lamps and lanterns of the towns, millions of stars burned blue in the firmament, as though a giant had taken handfuls of glittering sand and flung them into the sky.
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He was rich, and a rising star in the political firmament.
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These are sung by the soprano Anne Schwanewilms, a new name yes, but definitely a rising and shining voice in the singing firmament.
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His head was tilted back, his hands splayed out as if to catch drops from a leaking firmament.
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Chan is the most myghty emperour of the world, and the grettest lord undre the firmament; and so he clepethe him in his lettres, right thus, _Chan, filius Dei excelsi, omnium universam Terram colentium summus Imperatur, et
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I
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But in his whole presentation of God and our relation to him, there was neither thought nor phrase germane to sunrise or sunset, to the firmament or the wind or the grass or the trees; nothing that came to the human soul as having a reality true as that of the world but higher; as holding with the life lived in it, with the hopes and necessities of the heart and mind.
There & Back
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He was her friend, the cherished idol of her heart, the new sun in her firmament.
THE THORN BIRDS
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The dark rim of the upland drew a keen sad line against the pale glow of the sky, unbroken except where a young cedar on the lawn, that had outgrown its fellow trees, shot its pointed head across the horizon, piercing the firmamental lustre like a sting.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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What is the world if compare to the least visible star in the firmament?
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Throughout the night many other players in Bollywood's filmi firmament took to the stage to receive their awards, while many in the audience struggled to sit through the incredibly long show.
Marissa Bronfman: IIFA Awards 2011: A Memorable Affair
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&c. what fury is that, saith [3101] Dr. Gilbert, satis animose, as Cabeus notes, that shall drive the heavens about with such incomprehensible celerity in twenty-four hours, when as every point of the firmament, and in the equator, must needs move (so [3102] Clavius calculates) 176,660 in one
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The sweet air of heaven, the blue firmament, and the everlasting hills do not satisfy our poisoned hearts; so we make to ourselves a little tin-pot world of blotted-paper, debased rupees, graded lists, and tinsel honours; we try to feed our lungs on its typhoidal effluvia.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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Her Majesty is no stranger to a vault or firmament, of a sort of floorcloth, with an indistinct pattern distantly resembling eyes, which occasionally obtrudes itself on her repose.
Reprinted Pieces
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The entire scheme of Christianity disappeared from my firmament; but, in the immediately previous years, I had been a reader of Swedenborg, and I held immovably an intuition of immortality, -- or, if the term intuition be denied me, the conviction that immortality was the foundation of human existence, grounded in my earliest thoughts, and as clear as the sense of light, -- and this never failed me.
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
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He is a genuine tycoon, an authentic media mogul who dominates the newspapers and networks of his native land as completely as he does its political firmament.
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Agreen laser pointer from Warnlaser has the best centralized light dot and the most beautiful green beam which can be seen, like a green sword elongated by David Copperfield, in the midst of the firmament in the night.
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I always reside in conveyances and the animals that drag them, in maidens, in ornaments and good vestments, in sacrifices, in clouds charged with rain, in full-blown lotuses, and in those stars that bespangle the autumnal firmament.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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The meaning, then, of the Hebrew word rendered firmament is so utterly removed from the notion of compactness, or solidity, or metallic or crystalline spheres, that it is derived from the very opposite; the fineness or tenuity produced by processes of expansion.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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It does not follow that the man who speaks of "the spacious firmament on high," is under so considerable a delusion as to suspect that the firmament is a firm thing; nor does it follow that Moses thought that "rakia" was a solid substance either, -- even if solidity was the prevailing etymological notion in the word, and even if the Hebrews were no better philosophers than Mr. Goodwin would have us believe.
Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."
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His dry and occasionally self-abasing memoir, published in 1995, traced his uncertain path to the top tier of Britain's literary firmament.
Frank Kermode Dead: Respected English Literary Critic And Shakespeare Scholar Dies At 90
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Consequently, in recognition of this benefaction, painters and sculptors represent him as holding up the firmament, and the Atlantides, his daughters, whom we call "Vergiliae" and the Greeks [Greek: Pleiades], are consecrated in the firmament among the constellations.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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Sometimes the lightening forked across the sky like a crack in the dark firmament.
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We've seen cracks in the email firmament for a while, but it's pretty clear that too many big companies are doing too much mailing to too many people who aren't totally sure they want to get it.
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And then high up in the firmamental darkness we heard the clamant cries of some great, passing birds.
Sixes and Sevens
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The smallest pond at night mirrors the firmament above.
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The gilt rosettes that once studded its coffered dome evoked the firmament.
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He read the glorious blazoning of the firmament! — ay, when sordid moles shall become lynxes.
Quentin Durward
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The smallest pond at night mirrors the firmament above
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To explore the fields of the firmament with his telescope, gave him intenser pleasure than the most faithful farmer ever realized from furrowing his fields in the dewiest spring mornings.
Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure
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Why should this most great and lofty Cause -- the daystar of the firmament of true civilization and the cause of the glory, the advancement, the well-being and the success of all humanity -- be regarded as impossible of achievement?
Brent Poirier: Celebration of the Birth of the Bab: Dawn of the Age of the Maturity of Humanity
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Initially, the strategy was to destroy the Firmament above the enemy.
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In the sky, the Pole Star, around which the firmament appears to turn, has been styled the ‘navel of the Heavens'.
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Now I contend that Moses employed the word "rakia" with exactly the same propriety, neither more nor less, as when a Divine now-a-days employs the English word "firmament.
Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."
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And also the gret Chan is the most myghty emperour of the world, and the grettest lord undre the firmament; and so he clepethe him in his lettres, right thus, _Chan, filius Dei excelsi, omnium universam Terram colentium summus Imperatur, et Dominus omnium
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Nouell, wherein as you haue hearde, bee contayned the straunge aduentures of a fayre and innocente Duchesse: whose life tried like gould in the fornace, glittereth at this daye like a bright starry planet, shining in the firmament with moste splendent brightnesse aboue all the rest, to the eternal prayse of feminine kinde.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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What is the world if compare to the least visible star in the firmament?
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Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
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A wrought-iron balustrade guides you up three flights beneath the ribbed gothic vaults where every surface is painted with heraldic devices, a star-studded firmament and red walls decorated with hundreds of hand-painted fleurs-de-lys.
Gothic Renaissance in London
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Admittedly he was rich, and a rising star in the political firmament.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
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Even in Milton, though the great poet rejected the earlier idea of a solid firmament, we find prominence given to that of a vast hollow sphere of "circumfluous waters," which, by encircling the atmosphere, kept aloof the "fierce extremes of chaos.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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The thought that overarches the centuries with firmamental sweep is the thought of the Ensemble.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
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If those who hold the common doctrine of a carnal resurrection should carry it out with philosophical consistency, by extending the scheme it involves to all existing planetary races as well as to their own, should they cause that process of imagination which produced this doctrine to go on to its legitimate completion, they would see in the final consummation the sundered earths approach each other, and firmaments conglobe, till at last the whole universe concentred in one orb.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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English writers are constantly cited as the fathers of our verse, the name of their great Scottish compeer is apt to be passed over in silence; but he is evidently worthy of being enrolled in that little constellation of remote but never-failing luminaries, who shine in the highest firmament of literature, and who, like morning stars, sang together at the bright dawning of British poesy.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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I have stood on the summit of Ben Nevis in winter after completing a snow-and-ice climb, and looked down on the twinkling lights of Fort William, with a star-spangled firmament above.
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Queen of Argos, daughter of Tyndareus, sister of those two noble sons of Zeus, who dwell in the flame-lit firmament amid the stars, whose guerdon high it is to save the sailor tossing on the sea.
Electra
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Istis duobus Imperatoribus non creditur inueniri maior Dominus sub firmamento Coeli.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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What is the world if compare to the least visible star in the firmament?
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Seventy plus males all fighting over the remote control, forgetting your birthday or nailing wonky shelves to the firmament without first reading the instructions?
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Nor does falconry soar towards the empyrean and scud in the firmament to demonstrate His almightiness.
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But there were certain early winter days in Casterbridge -- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests -- when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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The firmamental conflagration faded away, and the soft night spread its shadows over the earth.
Yvette
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As he checked his appearance in the mirror he mused on what it meant to be a star without a firmament.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Renee Robinson and Jeffrey Gerodias led the company, the brightest stars in a starry firmament: fluid Ellington, often classical ballet, always Ailey.
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They're coveted by a generation too young to remember the designer's heyday, when she was one of the brightest stars in the fashion firmament, turning out exuberant, fantastical creations.
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Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
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Not that I neglected my studies entirely or failed to burn a reasonable portion of "midnight oil," sometimes indeed with a great show of industry particularly on a night before a hard examination; but luckily enough I was pretty well fortified in Greek and Mathematics before I got to the University, and it did not take much effort to keep abreast of my classes without being conspicuous one way or the other either as "curler" or "corker," that is, in the current vernacular, either as a bright particular star in the firmament or as a sacrificial lamb led to the slaughter.
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
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But what Harris could not do was to get near to Hogarth: his task was, as it were, to pluck Venus from the firmament; but he mused, he mused upon her, with musing astrologic eye, with grand patience, fascinated by her very splendours, not without hope.
The Lord of the Sea
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He was her friend, the cherished idol of her heart, the new sun in her firmament.
THE THORN BIRDS
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Potestas quam sibi Papa et Episcopi, caeterique quos spiritales vacant, arrogant, et fastus, quo turgent, ex sacris literis et doctrina Christi firmamentum non habet.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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What is the world if compare to the least visible star in the firmament?
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In state media, the firmament often expresses its pleasure with rulers via a rainbow or comet.
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No quibbling about the derivation of the word rakia, which is literally something beaten out, [122] can affect the explicit description of the Mosaic writer, contained in the words ‘the waters that are above the firmament,’ or avail to show that he was aware that the sky is but transparent space.
Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
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A pair of fulminating fingers stretched upward like cosmological Aztec temples; clutching at the fuscous firmament as hunger surpassed civility.
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Upon this the Badawi waxed wroth and they drove at each other, shouting aloud, whilst their horses pricked their ears and raised their tails. 103 And they ceased not clashing together with such a crash that it seemed to each as if the firmament were split in sunder, and they continued to strive like two rams which butt, smiting and exchanging with their spears thrust and cut.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Their underlying design is a spiraling vortex, in which undulating waters magically metamorphose into watered silk, velvet into vaporous cloud and firmament.
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It's still stranger to imagine legions of English noctambulists marching into moonlit fields to chant Dryden and Pope; but the implication of Wordsworth's scenario is that anyone undertaking the experiment would soon see the superiority of the night sky to the painted firmament of Augustan poetry.
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Nouell, wherein as you haue hearde, bee contayned the straunge aduentures of a fayre and innocente Duchesse: whose life tried like gould in the fornace, glittereth at this daye like a bright starry planet, shining in the firmament with moste splendent brightnesse aboue all the rest, to the eternal prayse of feminine kinde.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Sometimes the lightening forked across the sky like a crack in the dark firmament.
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The stars that sprent the firmament when overly stelliferous --
Tobogganing on Parnassus
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Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
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After all, he lived through a period when Europe's moral firmament was blown to pieces.
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Here also are found the insignificant lightness of the pebble and the mighty lightness of the planet; while between them range the weighty masses, superior to the petty ponderability of the one, and unequal to the firmamental float of the other.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862