welkin's

Shakspeare was more likely to have written _cheek_ than _heat_; for elsewhere he uses the expression, "Heaven's face," "the welkin's face," and, though irregular, the expression is poetical.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

But that the sea, mounting to th 'welkin's cheek, [369-1]

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

"All right, then; that letter I wrote is a shirt, and the welkin's the ruffle on it."

Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894

"All right, then; that letter I wrote is a shirt, and the welkin's the ruffle on it."

Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 1872

_King_ [_reads_], 'Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent, and sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god, and body's fostering patron ....

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

[Reads] 'Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent and sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god, and body's fostering patron.'

Love's Labour's Lost 1594

There would he linger, till the lattft ray Of light fat trembling on the welkin's bound;

Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ... 1791

There would he linger, till the lateft ray Of light fat trembling on the welkin's bound;

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

'The sea, mountin' to the welkin's cheek; 'ye remember, Pigeon Pie? "

Captain January Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896