welkin

• Shiloh spent several minutes running about and would certainly have made the welkin ring, whatever a welkin was, with her barking if she had been able. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 05 - May 1999
• Among the less pleasing sounds that fill the welkin are the tonk_, tonk_, tonk of the coppersmith, the kutur_, kutur_, kuturuk of the green barbet, and the calls of the various cuckoos that summer in the plains of Northern India. —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India
• The fame of Ganga has spread all over the welkin, and Heaven, and Earth, and all the points, cardinal and subsidiary, of the compass. —  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
• What the virgin Gayatri has said from the welkin is not true. —  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
• Filling the welkin, the cardinal points of the compass, the subsidiary ones, the firmament, and the Earth, with the whizz of arrows, the twang of bow-strings, the sound of palms, and the clatter of car-wheels, foes rushed upon foes. —  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12

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