They were in the belly of the ship, and they were dank and crowded and smelled to high heavens of unwashed bodies and human waste. |
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Above the earth are six heavens called Swarga, with increasing beatitude as one ascends. |
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At the next, he drained a 40-foot curling putt to go one over par, and raised his arms to the heavens, a la Faldo. |
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Watson played golf from the heavens on the Sunday in Turnberry, holing a chip for eagle on 10 and draining putts from 20, 30 and 40 ft. |
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The rain was beginning to belt down now in a devastating flurry, as if the heavens themselves were at war with this battered earth. |
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Suddenly, the heavens opened and there followed a rainstorm of biblical proportions. |
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The heavens opened and a deluge of biblical proportions had within minutes, turned roads into fast-flowing rivers and gardens into lakes. |
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The earth's importance should not be minimized even when contemplating the heavens. |
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According to Norse mythology, the triskelion was a symbol of the movement of the sun through the heavens. |
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By all rights there should be a depressing mizzly rain misting down from the heavens. |
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Small candles were tactically nestled amongst the branches to be lit at night, representing the twinkling stars of the heavens. |
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Mountebanks like him can suck them dry of their last earnings by promising them a little nest in the heavens. |
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He looked skywards, imploring silently to the heavens above, hoping for divine inspiration. |
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Sodden and anxious, riverbank dwellers gazed skywards as the heavens opened. |
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But to experience the wonders of the heavens, the skywatcher must be in the right place at the right time. |
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I will mock the marly heavens, lamp the purple prairies, I will flaunt my deathless banners down the far, unhouseled lands. |
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But the idea of looking up and seeing Mars in the heavens with the naked eye is just incredible with its dominance. |
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Roof off is of course mandatory in a car like this unless the heavens have opened, but don't expect bouffant hair to stay intact. |
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It is our immense good fortune that this revolution, which shows how both Earth and the heavens follow the same natural laws, continued to grow. |
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The blue in the chief represents the heavens and the parting line nebuly the clouds. |
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Indoors, more often than not, the signal breaks up when something cuts your invisible tether to the heavens. |
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The Norse Eddas sing of the great ash tree Yggdrasil on whose trunk the heavens spin and whose roots clutch the netherworld. |
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A Roman story makes them out to be mortals whom Zeus lofted into the heavens in recognition of their brotherly love. |
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Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration. |
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Despite the heavens opening and depositing buckets of rain a few times this weekend, the festival has been hugely successful. |
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Maybe we all have an inner desire to ascend towards the heavens with grace and verve. |
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Cities had held towers rising to the heavens, but now dark chimneys, tall as trees, spewed their smoke over the sky. |
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To add extra spice to the proceedings the heavens opened at half time and the rain began to pour as both teams turned round 3 points apiece. |
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In time, both find their votaries deserting them to worship the god of riches, and so apply for readmission to the heavens. |
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This modern, round building does resemble an upturned funnel with spout mounting to the heavens. |
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And as the heavens open once again, Travis take to the stage, almost sombre in the evening's half-light. |
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Similarly Sirius, the most luminous star in all the heavens, actually has a faint companion. |
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She then gazed upwards into the starlit night sky that blanketed the heavens above. |
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The skies darkened and the heavens opened obliterating any view whatsoever within minutes of us setting off on our travels again! |
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Its roots are in the heavens and its branches permeate the cosmos, paralleled in occidental mythology by the Norse Yggdrasill. |
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He feels like he is caught in a permanent handstand, feet to the heavens, hands to the earth, swinging free. |
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After the interminable drive in the carriole over the jolting roads they had reached Nevers when the sun was already high in the heavens. |
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Then the heavens ripped asunder and showered evil and ill omens upon the face of this beckoning planet. |
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Thank heavens we had a particularly headstrong set of governors, and an even more determined female head of school. |
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Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. |
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Oh heavens above how dare they create a parallel in a satire between real life and their fictional world! |
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She wondered if maybe her mother had not become one of the innumerable stars in the heavens. |
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They had seen his star in the heavens and followed it to Jerusalem and then onto Bethlehem. |
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All of the thirteen kingdoms had been graced with a stone, and a crystal and a star in the heavens. |
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He could never know what she had wished for as the stars fell from the heavens to earth. |
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Having laboured a part of the way, suddenly and most unexpectedly, the heavens open up. |
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Lightening arced across the sky, ripping the heavens open as torrential rains began to pelt down on them. |
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When the heavens open early on Sunday morning, just hours into the final day of the Lake of Stars Festival, everyone is taken by surprise. |
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And as the heavens open once again, Travis takes to the stage, almost sombre in the evening's half-light. |
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Come my brother and get warm in the car before the heavens open above us with rain. |
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Everything goes as it should, until the heavens open and a torrential rain begins. |
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Suddenly the heavens open up and rain begins to pour from the unforeseen forming clouds. |
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Last night the blood orange moon hung low in the sky, as if some celestial giant had impressed his dirty thumbprint into the heavens themselves. |
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It was wryly noted that the heavens had delivered the Scots from certain defeat. |
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Chinese Astrology also dates back thousands of years, long before the Indians, Greeks, Chaldeans and Mesopotamians started charting the heavens. |
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Nick's work with the homeless and the long-term unemployed, has won him recognition from on high, and I'm not just talking about the heavens. |
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Jake was finally glad that he was appreciated somewhere, and high-ups at the Nightmare Crew were thanking the heavens for this blessing. |
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It was a homey little diner where the food might either be undercooked or overcooked, but thank the heavens it was real food. |
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Yet for all that, the Jew sitting in his sukkah will look up at the heavens and be at peace. |
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We were sitting outside a bar when suddenly the heavens opened and it just began to pour down. |
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Between heaven and earth He separately placed in order men and things, all overspread by the heavens. |
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A glorious shower of sunlight pours from the heavens onto a rickety old barn. |
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After Christ dies on the cross, a single drop of rain falls from the heavens onto the ground. |
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It was one o'clock, and I felt as if I had been up since the parting of the heavens and the earth. |
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He raised his eyes to the heavens, clinging desperately to the only remaining physical reminder of his past life. |
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Tawaret has the head of a hippo, Thoth the head of an ibis, and the great sun god Ra is rowed across the heavens in a boat. |
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Who in the heavens could match his pecs, his flawless jawline, his crystalline gaze? |
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Aryans on the other hand had no idols and worshipped nature, as human forms that resided in the heavens. |
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Poets may fable of such a will, that it makes the very heavens conform to it. |
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Sit down and I will tell you a tale of magic and faeries, of foes and heroes in the heavens. |
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And you think that immersing your bones here will automatically result in your swift despatch to the heavens? |
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Never stop dreaming of moonbeams and fairy dust, shiny stars and the wonder of the heavens, a happier life and a better world. |
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Christopher clenched his jaw and sent a fleeting glance toward the heavens, his step never faltering. |
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There are brilliant people out there who search the very heavens and map the orbit of the stars and planets. |
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He would lie on the ground and gaze upward at the heavens and pray for deliverance. |
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There are new frontiers in the thousands of points of light in the heavens above our precious blue planet. |
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It drifted down from the heavens, little white nothings floating across your windows, settling on lamp-posts and windshields. |
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The hierarchy of the heavens is also an important cosmogonical influence on the family structure. |
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When it hissed, the very heavens shook, and when it growled, the earth cowered in fear. |
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Then the heavens opened, Hades bellowed, the thunder crashed, the water splashed, and a wall of rain came at us. |
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The crescent of the New Moon glowed in the indigo heavens, and to his left, Venus, the Evening Star of Ishtar kept him company. |
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He was getting closer to the square now, and his eyes still saw spots from the funnel of light he had followed to the heavens. |
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Oh, heavens to Betsy, what a furor, what a to-do, what a downright brouhaha. |
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She recalls a performance by a fading opera star who despite a poor performance was praised to the heavens. |
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As the stars and heavens learn the song of praise and worship, so do the inhabitants of the earth. |
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Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and Earth glorifies God, as do the birds with their outspread wings? |
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And then the heavens opened, releasing a deluge of heavy rain that had all three of us scrambling to be the first back in the house. |
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Gayle, arms raised towards the heavens and head thrown back, demonstrated nothing more than self-indulgence. |
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During that time they managed to be thoughtful, provocative and, heavens above, interesting. |
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A smile touched his blue lips as he patiently waited for the fragile wings of gossamer that would carry him to the heavens. |
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As described by Alain, her diadem represents the heavens with all the constellations, while her clothing represents the earthly realm. |
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The heavens began rumbling and grumbling, and without warning, great bolts of lightning flashed out and struck several larger demons down. |
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He has always seemed somewhat distrait, but now he has the lost air of a man who has fallen from the heavens into an unknown world. |
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Three cheeky Capistrano swallow refugees dive-bombed out of the heavens and zoomed in all around him. |
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Here the Qur'an refers to the creation of the heavens and the earth in six long periods or epochs, which the scientists have no objection to. |
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She instantly recognized the shape of the building's interior, the circular architecture and the dome that reached upwards to the heavens. |
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I have nothing against scientific surveys scanning the heavens for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. |
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I don't want to upset any owners of these abominations but for heavens sake, what on earth possessed you when you bought one of these things. |
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The building is effectively a giant glass satellite, with a central tower pointing its finger accusingly at the heavens. |
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That only left time to visit the tearooms for a superb Devonshire cream tea, before the heavens opened again, and we made a dash for the car. |
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She stays like that, lifting her face and her camera to the heavens, in the squawking aerial universe of all these flying creatures. |
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The heavens cry and moan as the wind's rage stirs up the burning tempest of the sky, tears are unleashed from the firmament, cold and tasteless. |
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As if on cue the heavens opened, a heavy rainstorm hit us, and visibility dropped to no more than one or two cars ahead and behind. |
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Overhead, the stars wheel in the heavens and a bright, bright moon shines down on the fields and on the house itself, for it's clear tonight. |
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The window pane began to rattle as the rain began to pound from the heavens. |
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This was the age of reason and enlightenment where science was fitting the heavens into the clockwork precision of mechanical, mathematical laws. |
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As the final shot landed wide, Ferrero fell to his knees and blew kisses to the heavens. |
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Isaac Newton proposed using a curved mirror, rather than a lens, to magnify the heavens, and reflecting telescopes are nowadays the norm. |
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As is typical of such storms, the main rainfall came of a sudden, like the turning of a tap in the heavens. |
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To a believer, God is all-powerful and the ultimate owner of the heavens and earth. |
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I couldn't have felt more ecstatic if the heavens had opened up and serenaded me with a chorus of angelic voices. |
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The world is seen as a giant clod around which the heavens revolve about a polar axis. |
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Aristotle famously proposed that as the heavens revolve about the Earth, the planets move in circles. |
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A bolt of lightning descended from the heavens in a blinding flash of yellow light accompanied by the rumble seconds later. |
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Good heavens, you could have been killed going into a den of ruffians like that. |
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Soon thunder rumbled across the heavens and flashes of lightning lit up the hillsides as thick curtains of rain swept towards us. |
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He believed that the apparent rotation of the heavens was due to the axial rotation of the Earth. |
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The event became even more surreal as the heavens opened and a monsoon rain teemed down, but the boxing went on regardless. |
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In Exodus for example, the story of manna offers the depiction of God raining food from the heavens, enough for everyone. |
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And thank heavens for the support that I've had from this country, because without it I wouldn't have a job. |
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When it comes down to basics I'm no less selfish than anyone else I know and, thank heavens, I'm not foolish enough to think otherwise. |
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No sooner were we in bed when there was an almighty thunderclap and the heavens opened up and of course it sounded very loud on the tin roof. |
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A tidal river, its current is swollen both from the teeming heavens and from the surging ocean. |
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I suddenly thanked the heavens that I'd changed out of my dorky school uniform before coming over. |
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She shook her fists to the heavens at the injustice of it all. |
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These are autumnal deaths to expiate the sins of a people and appease the heavens so summer might return. |
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Despite the rapid growth, Bhutan is still trying to keep its traditions alive and preserve the heavens for generations to come. |
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For a Jane Doe such as myself the sight of all this hardware with massive antenna extended and satellite dishes pointing to the heavens was staggering. |
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At the end you want to rush out of the theatre into the sunshine, raise your arms to the heavens and wait for lightning to strike you, just to relieve the ache in your heart. |
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He correctly interpreted what he saw as proving the existence of mountains and craters where natural philosophers demanded perfect sphericity in the perfect heavens. |
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He challenged geocentrism, refuted the dogma of the perfection of the heavens, and suggested that there might be a vast number of other worlds as well as universes. |
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As one of the driest years for decades, last year was indeed exceptional, and unless the heavens open for long periods this winter, restrictions could follow. |
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I am immensely impressed by the way in which the British juryman and jurywoman simply sits down to do this disagreeable duty though the heavens fall. |
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The astronomical clock served not only to regularly imitate the natural motion of the sun and the heavens but also to prognosticate state affairs. |
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I heard from them that there is this prince who descended from the heavens and is helping the mujahideen. |
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Suddenly the heavens open, and I dive for shelter under a parasol. |
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Picture Amneris, the slighted daughter of the Pharaohs, in Liz Taylor's inch-thick Cleopatra make-up, eyes glowing like sin, singing with a voice to move the heavens. |
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I did my mountain climbing and my hill walking when I was a young man, standing proud on the peaks and gazing up to the heavens, challenging them do do their worst. |
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If we cannot find peace in the heavens, what hope on the ground? |
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I'm sure others will come up with more, the heavens, just as they had done for each and every one of my elder brothers every time one of them got knocked down. |
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It almost seems to say that while mankind lived only on the Earth and that the heavens were just a few pinpoints of light, then that was the way the Universe actually was. |
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Because the skeleton is left behind we all go to our heavens without one. |
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He feels safe knowing that Brian May lives nearby in L.A. and believes that Freddie and Princess Diana speak to him from the heavens in skywriting. |
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But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. |
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A kind-hearted innocent with a passion for the lives of the saints, Damian is playing in his own cardboard sanctuary when a bag falls from the heavens. |
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They light the joss sticks from the yellow candles' strong steady flames and place the incense in the sand, the thin white smoke coiling up to the heavens. |
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The interior of the cave, pierced by apertures giving onto the sea and by a sort of skylight open to the heavens, reflects a light of mist and water on its damp walls. |
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But miraculously they must float in the heavens so far away from us, their beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever. |
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The autumn sky is so lofty that I feel like roaming around the heavens. |
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The best way to experience living conditions as they were at the turn of the last millennium is to book yourself into a festival once the heavens open. |
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The capricious god changed Ariadne into the Corona Cressa, or Cretan Diadem, already visible in the heavens in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne as an omen at their first meeting. |
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Richard Branson and Elon Musk have taken very different paths in their race to the heavens. |
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The unresting movements of the heavens and the water correspond to the unceasing power of the hydraulic machine and, by extension, to the unceasing power of the emperor. |
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On this side of the fence, smashed toilets, computer monitors and baby carriages are scattered about, alternately dropped from the heavens and hurled from nearby rooftops. |
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But to visit in the spring or fall, when millions of birds are pinwheeling through the heavens, is to realize that there are other, much older claims here, too. |
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His eyes were stormy green, like a tempestuous patch of sky right before the tornado siren goes off, with a layer of translucent blue like the heavens beneath fluffy clouds. |
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So I suggest that, before the heavens open again, Jenny and everyone else who has businesses here ring up the emergency services and get informed. |
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Such bad food yes, but thank heavens for such large portions. |
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Who travelest over the heavens in thy barque at the uprising of the sun. |
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The titans of the computer industry stride the media heavens. |
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In Armenian traditions, the fire and lightning god had powers to stay the dragon's control of the heavens, as could thunderbolts in Macedonian myth. |
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A bunch of moss-munching brontosauruses standing together looking up in the sky, as a giant, earth-shattering meteor comes hurling down from the heavens. |
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The voice was rich, mellifluous and like an angel sent from heavens above. |
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A line of skiers stretches forever as they herringbone toward the heavens. |
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As the fat, large drops fell from the heavens and hit the parched earth, the land that had once been in a drought rejoiced, and the angels were glad. |
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Laplace went on to write a wide-ranging text explaining the mechanics of the heavens without using miracles. |
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He often recalled the words of his father and dreamed of using technology to engineer a wondrous machine that would propel him into the heavens to meet the Lord. |
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Later, other Presocratics discuss the tilting of the heavens. |
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His limbs hung limply, and that white sneakerless sock was like a finger pointing straight at the heavens. |
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When Isaac Newton published the Principia Mathematica in 1687, he finally figured out how the heavens moved. |
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In some religions, one's soul departs to a netherworld, hell, instead of the heavens. |
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The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. |
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Heracles went to Atlas and offered to hold up the heavens while Atlas got the apples from his daughters. |
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When Atlas set down the apples and took the heavens upon his shoulders again, Heracles took the apples and ran away. |
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There are different orders of angels according to the three heavens, and each angel dwells in one of innumerable societies of angels. |
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He also estimated that the boundary between the clouds and the heavens lies about 40 stadia above the Earth. |
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In many archaic dwellings the central pillar does in fact serve as a means of communication with the heavens, with the sky. |
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Each astronaut embarks on a perilous journey into the heavens, per se, and if successful, returns with a boon for dissemination. |
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Now at the site where he was to remain as an idol, Ayar Oche raised up in flight toward the heavens so high that they could not see him. |
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Meteoric iron was highly regarded due to its origin in the heavens and was often used to forge weapons and tools. |
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Our machines have shown us the uninhabited heavens while parting the angelless clouds. |
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On the very edge of sight the teterrimous mountains, huge, made of brass, scaling the dark heavens, rimmed with blue flames. |
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He saw character in wasps, volition in tipitiwitchets, excitement in pine trees, order in bird migrations and glory in the heavens. |
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Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a two-penny-half-penny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached! |
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They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. |
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For several evenings the pale twinkling of the somber zodiacal stars lighted up the west side of the heavens for some time after the sun had set. |
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Fireballs will fly across the heavens early Friday during the Perseid meteor shower, one of the most dazzling astronomical events of the year. |
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Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. |
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Tiamat then creates light, the heavens, dry land, animals, and man. |
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The heavens opened and with it came the usual shouting matches between those with umbrellas and those without. |
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It's said that Sumer and Tiamat are mystical and spiritual places, the home of the ancients who come from the heavens. |
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But the boy's relatives don't sit on their behinds and wait for a pari or an apsara to drop out of the heavens. |
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For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements. |
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When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex. |
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What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens. |
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The argument put forth by Copernicus that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the heavens renewed concerns about domification. |
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In an infinite...universe the stars would collectively outshine the Sun and flood the heavens with light far more intense than is observed. |
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Christ's coming from the heavens has entered into the life of humanity as the Founder of the world to come. |
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People with noble and serene thoughts are found in higher subdivisions that have heavenlike conditions but are not actual heavens. |
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Satiran, lost in his own grief, shuddered once, then lifted his head to the sky and keened out his loss to the heavens. |
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The Ghost Eleanor Diehard Welsh rugby supporters are a section of the community oblivious to what the heavens throw at them, and they don't need to be mollycoddled like this. |
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The Silver Surfer, an intergalactic herald who prepares each world for Galactus' arrival, descends from the heavens and begins creating mile-long craters. |
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Peter Grego is well known to many as a great populariser of astronomy and an entertainingly informative steersman to those seeking to find out more about the heavens. |
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Food and drink like chicken soup and the thick gruel known as atole is offered to them in 13 bowls made from jicaras, representing the 13 heavens of the ancient Maya. |
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The field of sidereal astronomy, therefore, was virtually untrodden when, shortly after the beginning of his telescopic work, Herschel began his first review of the heavens. |
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Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove. |
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A Maya creation myth tells of God, Quetzalcoatl, and his companion, Tezcatlipoca, imposing order on the original chaos and trying to hold up the heavens. |
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This means you can racing along the streets of St Petersburg when suddenly the heavens open, making that hairpin turn an even more difficult prospect. |
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As if taunting the heavens, local Sacramento politicians have insanely allowed developers to construct thousands of residences on the bottomlands of flood plains. |
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Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish. |
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The heavens influenced every person in different ways by influencing elements connected to certain humors, important information in reaching a diagnosis. |
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Towers are a common element of religious architecture worldwide and are generally viewed as attempts to reach skyward toward heavens and the divine. |
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The dolphin is said to be among the creatures which heralded the goddess' descent from the heavens and her mount, the Makara, is sometimes depicted as a dolphin. |
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The very pure source... is the snowy mountain-peak above. There, eternally, goes on the white foregathering of the crystals, out of the deathly cold of the heavens. |
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The heavens are bright with bright clouds, the air is sweet with perfume from tree and flower, the bay is gemmed with gardened isles and promontories. |
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Imagine staring into the heavens on a clear night and seeing a handle of beer floating amongst the stars, or an angel, or the face of a famous celebrity. |
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Then in verse 29 Jesus says immediately after this thlipsis there will be signs in the heavens, and Jesus returns with His angels to gather his saints. |
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The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac. |
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Good heavens, I can't write down to the level of the vulgar public! |
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The story continues that Laozi bestowed a number of titles upon Yinxi and took him on a journey throughout the universe, even into the nine heavens. |
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