sublunar

Example Sentences

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“I will cherish this lifetime-achievement award from you, though, like all sublunar blessings, it is a mixed one,” she said.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017

The space-singed A.P. waited 42 minutes, then filed a carefully sublunar story reporting that a ham operator near Columbus.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the text is cautious, the accompanying illustration is not: it shows only three sublunar spheres, of earth, air and fire.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Such a printed trifle, a beloved name shortly before its sublunar annihilation, moves the whole heart with a succession of pleasing reflections.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

Let him turn To some brave maiden’s eyes, And catch the holy fires that burn In those sublunar skies.

From Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 by Anonymous