I was stunned by a roar that shook the firmament.

Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

And the lord of treasures, possessed of great beauty, came there to see Arjuna, illuminating the firmament with his effulgence.

Darkened as has been the horizon of suffering Hungary, in you, sir, still burns that living fire of freedom, which we trust will yet light up her firmament, and shed its lustrous flame over her wasted lands.

Clear is the sun and blue the firmament; Methinks the heavens do smile

That long column of worlds thou callest thy starry firmament, revolves like the myriads of grains of dust, visibly hovering in the sunbeam's revolving column, from the crevice in the wall into that dark space.

Instead of a black sky, the rising sun, not yet above the hill, had changed the firmament into a vast rose!

He waited for the brilliant star that was soon to climb the firmament for him, and shed the fulness of its rays over the whole world.

But that which struck our hero as being most remarkable was the magnitude and dazzling brightness of the host of stars that covered the black firmament.

The distant town rose against it, cutting the firmament so that it might have been tongues of flame flickering between the dark solid outlines; and across the waste open country which lay between the two cities, there came a distant hum like the sound of the sea, which was in reality the roar of that other multitude.

The winds sweep by him on his mountain throne, Hurling the clouds together at his feet, Till Earth is hidden, lost, and swallow'd up As in the flood of waters,and he sits Eyeing the boundless firmament above, Proud and unruffled, till his heart exclaims, "I am a god, Heaven is my home,the Earth Serveth me but for footstool.

The new arriving star filled the whole firmament.

Then the light had passed, and he was no more than a great black outline against the starry skya great black outline that threatened with one mighty gesture the firmament of heaven and all its multitude of stars.

And as a sky from which the sun has gone Trembles all night with all the stars he gave A firmament of memories of the sun, So thrilled and thrilled each life when that great kiss was done.

What starres so ere you are assur'd to grace The firmament (for, loe, the twinkling fires Together throng and that cleare milky space, Of stormes and Phiades and thunder void, Prepares your roome) do not with wry aspect Looke on your Nero, who in blood shall mourne Your lucklesse fate, and many a breathing soule Send after you to waite upon their Queene.

The splendours of the firmament of time, &c. As there are stars in the firmament of heaven, so are there splendoursluminous intellectsin the firmament of time.

310 He too was mute: and, ere her weeping ceased, He rose, and to the ruin's portal went, And saw the dawn opening the silvery east With rays of promise, north and southward sent; And soon with crimson fire kindled the firmament.

Impossible De le dire, en ce morne et brumeux firmament. L'oeil

Beyond the ridge all-conquering British aeroplanes occupied the firmament, observing for "mother" and "granny" and signalling encouragement or reproof to these ponderous but sprightly relatives as their shells hit or missed the target.

"As for your name, I offer you the whole firmament to choose from."

The night was dark, from the thick clouds that overspread the firmament.

A million of eyes shall pass over the firmament, on a cloudless night, and not a hundred minds shall be filled with a proper sense of the power of the dread Being that created all that is therenot a hundred hearts glow with the adoration that such an appeal to the senses and understanding ought naturally to produce.

Here first the Eternal Father, guard of all, Of heaven and earth, raisèd up the firmament, The Almighty Lord set firm by His strong power This roomy land; grass greened not yet the plain, Ocean far spread hid the wan ways in gloom.

He was fond of poetry when he was a boy,his mother taught him to say many little pieces,he remembered one beautiful hymn;and the old gentleman began, in a clear, loud voice, for his years, "The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens," He stopped, as if startled by our silence, and a faint flush ran up beneath the thin white hairs that fell upon his cheek.

The thunder pealed along the vault of heaventhe lightning appeared to rend the firmament.