welkin
Example Sentences
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Charles Wesley wrote a hymn that began “Hark how all the welkin rings/Glory to the king of kings”.
From The Guardian
The green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend.
From Project Gutenberg
I felt my little car vibrating to their force, as cheers, peal upon peal, came rolling up into the welkin.
From Project Gutenberg
We soon shall reach the station, O how we then shall sing, With all the heavenly army, We’ll make the welkin ring.
From Project Gutenberg
I will construe to them whence you came: who you are, and what you would, are out of my welkin: I might say, element; but the word is over-worn.
From Project Gutenberg
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