96 examples of skywards in sentences
In the mist I could see her peering once more skyward, and through the drone of the deluge came an echo of her song.
he said, looking skywards.
There they lay, not more than ten miles distant, woody almost to the summit, but with here and there a bold finger of rock pointing skywards.
"And when you girls came in he just soared skyward and went off in it.
If anything happens, it will be at night, and while the newspaper office may some time go flying skyward the girls will run no personal danger whatever.
Then the woman stood up on the stone, and, gazing skywards and throwing up her arms, she uttered a long call, and the birds began to come lower and lower down, still sweeping round in wide circles, and by and by one came quite down and pitched on a stone a few yards from them.
The yellow and orange poppies predominated, but there were acres of wild mustard throwing countless numbers of gorgeous saffron spikes skyward, and vistas of blue carconnes, white daisies and blood-red delandres.
We were too high to distinguish what was going on beneath us, but I could imagine the thousands of soldiers staring skyward in wonder at the strange spectacle above them.
Since I came to live by the field one of these has tiptoed above the gully of the creek, beckoning the procession from the hills, as if in fact they would make back toward that skyward-pointing finger of granite on the opposite range, from which, according to the legend, when they were bad Indians and it a great chief, they ran away.
Across the end of the Calle San Gregorio, and commanding that narrow street, stood the Palacio Sarrionan empty house the greater part of the yeara vast building, of which the windows increased in size as they mounted skywards.
Eight hands wavered skyward.
A few feet only from the Duomo the campanile drew her vision skyward; the film of smoke was lighter here, and the sky seemed nearerbluer.
All round us lay the sand and rocks of the unchanging desert, save to the southwards where the jungle stood with its orchids facing skywards.
And all the while out of the mind of Gaznak, lulled by that strange music, went spires and pinnacles beautiful and slender, ever ascending skywards.
The first German attempt to set foot on the bridge would be the signal for sending the great structure crashing skywards.
He was gazing skywards.
A second star shell hissed skywards, but before it broke the men had reached the base of the cliff.
The eager Australians, all staring skywards, saw her bank steeply, and at the same time a long white streak shot downwards from her, like a ribbon unrolling in mid air.
" Note, again, not only the tremendous vision of clinging soils carried skywards in the tornado, but also the suitability of the mere sounds.
As we crossed the Park front going from Fifth Avenue east to west, he paused, and leaning on his cane gazed skyward, where the outlines of some buildings, in process of construction on Fifty-ninth Street, and then considered high, stood out against the sky.
Small trees grew from between them as they lay heaped in disorder and taller growths stretched skyward from an occasional open space.
Frenchmen strolling down the boulevards glanced skywards and smiled.
Here and there an outcrop of rock ran skywards into somber and precipitous ridges.
They hammered the exchange rate down and bought silver, then boosted the rate skyward and sold.
Some of the loftier volcanoes are still active, and the vapour of their craters mounts skyward above white fields of eternal snow.