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  • Sharrkan raised his head Heavenwards and prayed Allah that the belle might beat the beldam.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Apotheosis -- would not have been _there_ to lift him Heavenwards at the last.

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

  • He loved the Sunday School, and right joyously rang his sweet, childish treble in the chants and hymns; but when it came to the hymn, "Just as I am, I come," then his whole soul seemed afire, and the thrilling, rapturous music gushed from his little throat and ascended Heavenwards -- as the angels 'songs must ascend to the summit of God's Throne.

    Irish Ned The Winnipeg Newsy Samuel Fea 1907

  • Then the old woman leant towards her, and the two laid hold either of each, while Sharrkan raised his head Heavenwards and prayed Allah that the belle might beat the beldam.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Heavenwards; as music in Robert Wilson's Prelude in A Flat; as scraps of an old letter in Jane Dobson's Love's Fragments.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • Heavenwards; as music in Robert Wilson's Prelude in A Flat; as scraps of an old letter in Jane Dobson's Love's Fragments.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • Whereas some are predestined angels, and fly Heavenwards naturally, and do what they will.”

    The Virginians 2006

  • Whereas some are predestined angels, and fly Heavenwards naturally, and do what they will. "

    The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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