How To Use Heavenward In A Sentence
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The central silver panel depicts an angel or putto with outstretched wings and arms, soaring heavenward.
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`I'm a friend of Kate's, we've just been out to lunch and she --' Kate looked heavenwards and prayed for a miracle.
FALLEN WOMEN
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Brown vertical trunks absorbed the righteousness of the fields and shot heavenward like sacred pillars of an ancient pagoda.
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She directed her gaze heavenward then proceeded to divest him of his coat.
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So said the multitude, and so say I, although I scarce can hope it; for who shall dare to think that Heaven will grant its benediction on a compact steeped in earthliness, and formed without one heavenward view!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
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he pointed heavenward
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The bows, with the woman and the goat, rose heavenward.
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His glance heavenwards was not missed by the others in the room.
SANDS OF TIME
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So he raised his eyes heavenwards and said, Glory to Thee, O Lord, O Creator and Provider, who providest whomso Thou wilt without count or stint!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Madame raised her arms heavenward, her lips parting in a wide smile to reveal white, overly-straight teeth.
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They flew with their breasts turned heavenward and their backs faced hellward.
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The town, climbing the hill, assumed the proportions of a mighty citadel; the forest tree-tops were prismatic, emerald balls flung beneath the illumined Merveille; and the Cathedral was set in a daffodil frame; its aerial _escalier de dentelle_, like Jacob's ladder, led one easily heavenward.
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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Then, they saw a thick cloud of smoke whirl heavenwards.
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All the cottages in the "coombe" were pretty, but to Helmsley's mind Mary Deane's was the prettiest, perched as it was on a height overlooking the whole village and near to the tiny church, which crowned the hill with a little tower rising heavenward.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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I looked heavenwards as if hoping for a miraculous infusion of patience and tried hard to conceal my irritation.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Afterwards he lifted up his eyes to heavenwards, then turned them in his head like a she-goat in the painful fit of an absolute birth, in doing whereof he did cough and sigh exceeding heavily.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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I looked heavenward and when there were no lightning bolts I pressed forward.
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Then he went into the room, where his family had assembled, with joyous heart and shining face, and raising both hands, and lifting his eyes heavenward, exclaimed, "_We have overcome, we have overcome_.
The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer
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A multitude of beautiful shapes appeared to be comprehended within its single outline; it was a kind of kaleidoscopic mystery, so rich a variety of aspects did it assume from each altered point of view, through the presentation of a different face, and the rearrangement of its peaks and pinnacles and the three battlemented towers, with the spires that shot heavenward from all three, but one loftier than its fellows.
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
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Gouts of superheated water geysered, consumed by the column of fire, each rocketing fountain propelled heavenward by a deafening, heart-stopping concussion that left cannonading echoes in its wake.
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Leaves had unfurled , goldfinches had arrived at the feeder and daffodils were fighting their way heavenward.
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Brown vertical trunks absorbed the righteousness of the fields and shot heavenward like sacred pillars of an ancient pagoda.
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When Bruce is passed over for the news anchorman job he covets, he turns his gaze heavenward and curses God for his ill fortune.
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His heavenward gaze reveals the address of the grand inquisitor.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The angels appear to be carrying the mandorla heavenwards, as they grasp the carved rays of the sunburst.
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`A bag,' she repeated louder and looked heavenward as the hoovering black hole launched a packet of Lambert & Butler.
THE MANANA MAN
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the soul in its heavenward flight
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Fine, delicate black lines delineate androgynous figures, heads turned heavenward, mouths open.
