WordNet
Usage examples of "vault of heaven".
Beneath the vault of heaven, a single life is nothing, no more than a catch of breath, a shattering tear, a falling leaf.
About ten feet from the spot where he and the stranger were, the roof had given way, leaving a large round opening, through which might be seen the blue vault of heaven, thickly studded with stars.
I looked around me, and viewed the vast vault of heaven no longer bounded by monastic walls, and the green earth extended in hill and dale to the round verge of the horizon!
When the thunder rolled people believed they heard the wheels of Donar's chariot on the vault of heaven.
The bird sacred to her is the peacock, whose spangled plumage recalls the stars in the vault of heaven - and testifies to the service of hundred-eyed Argus.
She could see stars now in the vault of heaven: the Queen's Sword stood at zenith, but from this angle she could not see it.
At the moment he fell still, the vault of heaven, star-studded, profound, was pierced as if by a spear.
Well, muskun is the old Indian word for the vault of heaven, the place where the elder gods lived, along with all the ancient and terrible demons.
Their soft light illuminated the courtyard, while the swift flight of Thuria across the vault of heaven swept the shadows of the trees into constantly changing movement across the scarlet sward, turned purple now in the moonlight.
Why, the whole vault of heaven--excepting the Magellanics faint and far away--might now be a tomb of Slowness.
This plateau was bounded by mountains on which rested the vault of heaven, and it floated on the waters of the Apsu.