He promised me that, regardless of my feelings, he would always wait for me, "even the sun won't shine, heaven bursts, or the words are no rhymes.
The songs line up gospelly piano behind and her deep-country drawl as she proclaims, "There's a whole lot of heaven shining in this river of tears".
We three children were convinced since she died at 95 that she was shining bright in heaven.
The luminous columns shining into the heavens surely transcend any constructed memorial that could be devised.
Junie Ooley had drawn herself up, the eyes shining in her heaven-sent face, and told him that she was flattered by the proposal, flattered and moved, deeply moved, but that she just wasn't ready to commit to something like that, like marriage, that is, what with him being a Shetland sheepman and she an American woman with a college degree, and a rover at that.
There was a grand moment in last night's debate; they played a clip of Hillary Clinton's sarcastic speech about the light shining down, the heavens opening, angels singing, etc.
He felt like heaven was shining a light on him on that day.
"Air," like a little slice of heaven, shines through the cracks.
Instead, all it can do is shine, brighter than heaven and easier to get into, an asphalt hereafter.
As our HMMWV turned the corner and I caught my first glimpse of this vast expanse I heard the playing of "Hallelujah" and saw a radiant white light shine down from heaven upon the scores of deadlined vehicles, discarded parts and general detritus that filled the place.
