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Meanings of welkin in anglès
The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected.
Synonyms
Examples for "heavens"
Examples for "heavens"
1
No time is left for discussing the new heavens and New Earth.
2
It will remain until the new heavens and the new earth come.
3
Thank heavens Ireland may not come back here for another dozen years.
4
But I do believe in the new heavens and the New Earth.
5
The Tree of Life had pierced the heavens; it overtopped the stars.
1
A sphere, however, is one thing; a rotating sphere is quite another.
2
This is an extremely pertinent question, especially in the sphere of immigration.
3
The natural and correct form for such a thing is a sphere.
4
The liberal party appears to be vanquished in the sphere of economics.
5
These private acts in an almost public sphere echoed his social nature.
1
The bright particular star in this firmament of friends was Mrs. Slater.
2
Try to please your cousin; she is a star in the firmament.
3
Y: On the Day when the firmament will be in dreadful commotion.
4
Taking a portion of His rays the sun shines in the firmament.
5
The firmament seems to be like the solid base of a vessel.
1
Up in the empyrean courtly circles his relations were quite as gratifying.
2
That was an empyrean too high for his wing to soar in.
3
To be the centre of a maze of manoeuvres was his empyrean.
4
She had mildly soared with him into the empyrean of his dreams.
5
And such must have been from the beginning the condition of the empyrean.
1
The earth, argued Ptolemy, lies at the centre of the celestial sphere.
2
Egg represented the concavity of the celestial sphere enclosing all things, 663-l.
3
This figure forms a grand trapezium of four stars on the celestial sphere.
4
The third star whirls counterclockwise on the celestial sphere itself.
5
The points in which the latter intersects the celestial sphere are called the galactic poles.
1
His cry uprose and was lost in the immense vault of heaven.
2
Black clouds hung in huge, portentous masses over, the vault of heaven.
3
Then from the vault of heaven darted a ribbon of emerald fire.
4
One would have pronounced them spiders' webs of the vault of heaven.
5
She represents the vault of heaven, and is the mother of the gods.
Usage of welkin in anglès
1
And the ringing welkin is all we should have heard in Michigan.
2
Wails of grief, O Bharata, arose among the gods in the welkin.
3
What the virgin Gayatri has said from the welkin is not true.
4
The welkin seemed as if it were shrouded by a thick forest.
5
From roadside trees the cicada vied with them, making the welkin ring.
6
Then Krishna also blew his conch filling the welkin with its blare.
7
Hundreds of meteors fell, bursting with a loud noise from the welkin.
8
In the welkin a voice was heard, saying, Excellent, O Kesava, Excellent!
9
Then loud sounds arose in the welkin in applause of Vasudeva.
10
The winds blow on the Earth's surface and in the welkin.
11
The beings in the welkin, O king, applauded Karna and Arjuna.
12
The French now made the welkin ring with shouts of victory.
13
Senator Kinney then arose, and the welkin seized the bellrope preparatory to ringing.
14
Piercing through the welkin, those meteors fell on the lunar disc as well.
15
A star shot across the welkin and was no more seen.
16
Yonder ascends a cloud of dust that overspreads the welkin like a canopy.
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portuguès
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