heavenward

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Helped by Thy Cross, I mount the rocky crest;    Oh, come, to guide me on my Heavenward Way.

From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo)

Her prose works were very popular, and "Stepping Heavenward" had found its way into thousands of hearts.

From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard

Thus far the Spirit: Then parted Heavenward on the wing: and I Was left alone on Calpe, and the Moon Had fallen from the night, and all was dark!

From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

A Long Way on the Heavenward RoadToList By morning every room on the windward side of our house looked like the inside of an igloo.

From Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

Heavenward, the lowering sky was darkened by wild, scudding, black clouds, driven by the wind, through which the young moon seemed plunging and hiding as in terror.

From The Missing Bride by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte