Now the firmament has vanished--and all is twilight.
To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the miGen.
There you will find mountains and rivers and seas, valleys and cliffs, violets and clouds, and over all "the firmament fretted with gold and fire.
We know that the self-evident is the square and compass of the brain, the polar star in the firmament of mind.
Most of the brightest stars in the theatrical firmament have graduated from vaudeville into greater things, and many of them return to the vaudeville stage for a flier now and then.
These are they whose bodies are celestial, whose glory is that of the sun, even the glory of God, the highest of all, whose glory the sun of the firmament is written of as being typical.
The firmament rose and melted, or parted off into the likeness of snowy sky-mountains, and left the cool Sabbath to brood brightly over the land.
She would go to the housetop at least once every six months, and there, with a band of pious deluded geese dressed in white flowing robes, would inspect the firmament for favourable signs.
And was he only a mock sun swimming in a firmament of glories which he could have outshone?
He made her cheeks flush by insinuating she was no better.
He passed the whole northern firmament in review four distinct times; counted the stars in 3,400 gauge-fields, and estimated the brightness of hundreds of stars.
The earth no longer the only world to which all else in the firmament were obsequious attendants, but a mere insignificant speck among the host of heaven!
At the present time there are stars in the firmament named after them" (Kingsborough, vol.
Lepsius that the parts alluded to in the above inscriptions, referred to an imaginary male figure stretched across the firmament and viewed en face, and publishes a theoretical reconstruction of this imaginary figure.
This firmament saves the earth from being engulfed by the waters of the heavens; it forms the partition between the waters above and the waters below.
The heavens were made on the first day, and they are kept in place by the firmament made on the second day.
The firmament is not the same as the heavens of the first day.
The Heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
To the writers of the Bible the firmament was solid, and in it were grooves along which the stars were pushed by angels.
He also taught that the firmament was solid, and that the angels pushed and drew the stars.
That night the firmament was clearer than ever; the satellites of Jupiter could actually be seen with the naked eye.
A pallid gleam shot through the eastern sky; the stars grew faint; over the blue firmament stole, as it were, a sheen of pearl.
All mankind will dwell together as one family, blend as the waves of one sea, shine as stars of one firmament and appear as fruits of the same tree.
Rome can show us a long list of names which shine among the brightest lights of the firmament of science and philosophy.
The moon and the stars seemed to have left their places in the firmament to bathe themselves in those delightful lakelets.
One really needs to draw breath after all that: the lecture-room lighted by star rays, the firmament fretted with golden fire, the laughing flowers and roaring seas, must surely have carried conviction.
CXIX Nor Rodomont to Nimrod yields in might, Proud and untamed; and who would not forbear To scale the lofty firmament till night, Could he in this wide world descry the stair.
LXI On arches raised, whereon the firmament Seemed to repose as props, so fair in show Are lovely gardens, and of such extent, As even would be hard to have below.
That son of Indra, who was also the father of Vikramajit, the subject of this and another collection, offended the ruler of the firmament by his fondness for a certain nymph, and was doomed to wander over earth under the form of a donkey.
Urged by the furious blast of the lingering winter-rains, masses of bistre-coloured cloud, like the forms of unwieldy beasts, rolled heavily over the firmament plain.
The heavens shine with shooting stars, as if a new firmament were created, and the old rolled away.
It is twilight; the night comes on, the lamps are lighted in the city below, the stars are kindled in the firmament above, and the tower of Redderholm's church rises aloft towards the starry space.
It was rapidly succeeded by other flashes till the whole firmament seemed to glow with a bright, ruddy light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firmament" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
