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jacob's ladders

n. (Jacob's ladder English)

Usage examples of "jacob's ladders".

Along a nearby slope Jacob's ladders nodded their bright blue heads, and Elene breathed deeply.

Cirocco leaned closer, oblivious to the blue Jacob's ladders that arced in the gaps between her fingers.

Usually it was only a load of icy dust, but once he found an unplanted clutch of pale blue Jacob's ladders, tucked between the splits in a breadloaf rock.

Think of it as full of bubbling retorts and sizzling Jacob's ladders.

A dome in the middle reached up through angels and Jacob's ladders through clouds to a clear cupola framing the full moon.