heaven-high

They hadn't the red-brown clay coloring of Kartu people, or the dusty brown complexion of the Mariha and desert people, or the mulch-brown features of many of the Sirniakan people, nor the richly brown-black skin of Priya, who came from far to the south past desert and heaven-high mountains both, close to the sun.

Spirit Gate 2006

In the progress of these proceedings, urged on as they were by the heaven-high enthusiasm of the

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

The burghers thought that, once behind those heaven-high mountains, with all the passes in their possession, with abundant war supplies, and all the necessaries of life, they would resist successfully every attack.

In the Shadow of Death P. H. Kritzinger

Adverse, each from the other heaven-high, hell-deep removed, —

Abt Vogler 1917

Or, if he be a man of the highest genius in literature, like Tolstoi, whose native kindliness holds him back from the extremes of nihilism, he may rear a fabric heaven-high, in which truths, errors, and paradoxes are piled up together until we have a new Tower of Babel.

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

When they again awoke, uproar surrounded them, voices, a heaven-high shouting of quenched fires and screaming steams; moreover, the bell was leaning steeply, they two huddled together at its edge.

The Lord of the Sea 1906

Leagues, Nationalization Leagues, many Leagues, were organizing furiously, stretching the right arm of oratory; deputations, petitions in wagons, demonstrations _en bloc_, party cannonades, racket heaven-high.

The Lord of the Sea 1906

By the art of Pallas, they framed a heaven-high horse, within which were concealed picked men for our destruction.

National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

Kit compared it unconsciously to the to and fro of the emotions in his heart, now surging him heaven-high, now leaving him stranded.

The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

Then Dapplegrim and the strange horse began to fight till the stones flew heaven-high.

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896