sky

• The thunder came from the sky, the sky was frequently called Dyaus (the bright one), in Greek and though it was not the bright sky which thundered, but the dark, yet Dyaus had already ceased to be an expressive predicate, it had become a traditional name, and hence there was nothing to prevent an Aryan man from saying Dyaus, or the sky thunders, in Greek Let us here mark the almost irresistible influence of language on the mind. —  Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
• To-day the sky is as serene as usual, the damages are repaired, and the tempestuous weather is forgotten. —  Hortense Makers of History Series
• If the sky is then over- or under-printed we can modify it in the enlargement proper The best arrangement for vignetting in enlarging is a piece of cardboard the size of the negative, with an opening cut out at the proper place and about the size of the portion of the negative to be vignetted. —  Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements
• These elephants of the sky are our dead ancestors watching over us. —  Kari the Elephant
• It may have vanished in the quarter of a century that has passed since the February day I came to it, when the sky was as blue as the sea, and a soft cloud hung over Vesuvius, and flowers were sweet in the land--can anyone who ever smelt it forget the sweetness of the flowering bean in the wide fields near the Bay of Naples? —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties

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