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Definition of Skylike
1. resembling the sky [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skylike
Literary usage of Skylike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger (1838)
"The rira wended in a crooked, serpentine path hard by, and the far off mountains
hung upon the skylike palaces of snow upon battlemented clouds. ..."
2. The Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909 by John Cooke (1909)
"Nor will she ever Gentleness find the less, When the storm overblown Leaveth
clear kindliness. Deal with her tenderly, skylike above her, ..."
3. Constantinople by Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (1895)
"In 537, a whole generation before the birth of Mohammed the Prophet, its great
dome swept heavenward as skylike as it does to-day. ..."
4. Apocalyptic Sketches: Lectures on the Book of Revelation ; First and Second by John Cumming (1854)
"If this be so, we may suppose that the name of John will bo upon the sapphire,
the mild skylike lustre of which expresses best the character of the loved ..."
5. My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1916)
"The Narbon Flax (Linum narbonense) is perhaps a more skylike blue than the more
familiar L. perenne, ..."
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