Sentence examples for oh heaven from inspiring English sources
Gaskell was beautiful, worldly and dizzyingly public: a mother of four; familiar with Florence Nightingale, Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, and even Dickens, with whom she did not get on ("If I were Mr G," exclaimed Dickens, "oh heaven, how I would beat her").
"Oh, Heaven is a place on Earth".
But, oh heaven, treating it as a sealed system with right/wrong rules and answers is so very useful for giving very young children "reliable" tests, which then supposedly test whether the teachers have taught these rules, and which, hey presto, give you a score in your office.
Number of cakes eaten: 4.7 (v. bad Number of times run up and down stairs: 6 (invalidating the above Number of minutes spent in darkroom with sexy postdoc: 8.2 (oh heaven!!).
"OH, heavens, I did them wrong!" Maria Elena Schiffrin exclaimed, peering into a pan of onions.
I like Oh-Heavens, my-gracious, land's-sake words, such as tricksy, tucker, genteel, horrid.
"Oh, heavens no," she said.
