Sentence examples for welkin from inspiring English sources

"She had the bright, open face that always reminded me of the vast midwestern welkin," he says.

Jump in here, waits, in makeshift choir And lift some chords for Danny Meyer, With gladsome tunes for Teri Garr, Zaha Hadid, and David Carr; And make the lofty welkin ring O'er Miley Cyrus, Vijay Singh, And lissome late selections then For Esa-Pekka Salonen; And, lads, ere you cease this yowling, Alleluia, J. K. Rowling!

He admonishes Puck to use the black of night to repair his careless mistakes: "Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night, / The starry welkin cover thou anon / With drooping fog as black as Acheron".

If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad Threat'ning the welkin with his big-swoll'n face?

How the welkin rang!

The welkin shook with British joy.

REACHING to heaven for superlatives, the architectural critic Montgomery Schuyler said of the Woolworth Building in 1913 that it "cleaves the empyrean and makes the welkin ring".

Loosely inspired by the second world war, the game follows Welkin Gunther and Alicia Melchiott.

"They took to him like hornets to treacle," wrote Melville of Billy's welkin-eyed charm.