The firmamental conflagration faded away, and the soft night spread its shadows over the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yvette] Reference

The thought that overarches the centuries with firmamental sweep is the thought of the Ensemble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference

Here also are found the insignificant lightness of the pebble and the mighty lightness of the planet; while between them range the weighty masses, superior to the petty ponderability of the one, and unequal to the firmamental float of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference

Can the whole firmamental creation in its turn be nothing but a corner of some mightier scheme?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall] Reference

Manoeuvres of a most extraordinary kind were going on in the vast firmamental hollows overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference

And then high up in the firmamental darkness we heard the clamant cries of some great, passing birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixes and Sevens] Reference

Our firmamental cluster contains, it has been calculated, in round numbers about twenty million stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference

By the absolute equalization of this movement -- or of such as this -- had the cycles of the firmamental orbs themselves, been adjusted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference

By the absolute equalization of this movement — or of such as this — had the cycles of the firmamental orbs themselves, been adjusted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales.] Reference

In this condition they are individually invisible; but collectively they send an amount of wave-motion to the retina, sufficient to produce the firmamental blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

But there were certain early winter days in Casterbridge -- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests -- when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

In the case of some -- probably in the case of all -- it is possible to preserve matter in the firmamental condition for fifteen or twenty minutes under the continual operation of the light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

As from the bottom of a dark abyss into which he had fallen, a person might look up to the bright sky, of which he could see but a little, which yet would give him token of all the firmamental light and beauty up there which he had not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet, Volume I] Reference

It is an advantage of these vast edifices, rising over us and spreading about us in such a firmamental way, that we cannot spoil them by any pettiness of our own, but that they receive (or absorb) our pettiness into their own immensity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference

The dark rim of the upland drew a keen sad line against the pale glow of the sky, unbroken except where a young cedar on the lawn, that had outgrown its fellow trees, shot its pointed head across the horizon, piercing the firmamental lustre like a sting.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

"Conscious that he dwells but as an atom of dust on the outskirts of a galaxy of inconceivable glory" moving through eternity in the arms of law, he becomes, in his own estimation, an insensible dot lost in the uncontainable wilderness of firmamental systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference

Mr. Waples 'stalagmite broke off and dropped him and set him astride of an ancient pterodactyl bird that flew off with its burden to an immense height, and swinging him there by the seat of his breeches, as if he were to be the pendulum of a fundamental and firmamental clock, the griffin-bird finally let go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference

'phenomena', or objects of the outward sense, in contradistinction from the earth as Vesta, as the firmamental law that sustains and disposes the apparent world!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference

The firmamental waters are lower than the spiritual heaven, higher than all corporeal beings, reserved, some say, for a second deluge; others, more truly, to temper the fire of the fixed stars. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference

Were it a firmamental product.    From Wordnik.com.  [“I think that the root of the Wind is Water.”] Reference

Blowest in the firmamental glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1918-19] Reference

In firmamental waters dipt above.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference

Athwart a firmamental arc of gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference

In firmamental waters dipp'd above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference

Salutes me down my firmamental march.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masque of the Elements] Reference

A cloud that frets the firmamental plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference

Across the firmamental blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919] Reference

Mounting the firmamental silences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1911-12] Reference

"firmamental.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories] Reference

Around, around the firmamental ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference

With firmamental care, -- ah, heaving, heaving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perpetual Light : a memorial] Reference