welkin

Example Sentences

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Charles Wesley wrote a hymn that began “Hark how all the welkin rings/Glory to the king of kings”.

From The Guardian

The green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend.

From Project Gutenberg

I felt my little car vibrating to their force, as cheers, peal upon peal, came rolling up into the welkin.

From Project Gutenberg

We soon shall reach the station, O how we then shall sing, With all the heavenly army, We’ll make the welkin ring.

From Project Gutenberg

I will construe to them whence you came: who you are, and what you would, are out of my welkin: I might say, element; but the word is over-worn.

From Project Gutenberg