| The warmth of the sun caressed Alicia's skin as she briefly turned her face skywards. |
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| Achaeus gazed skywards, hoping to ingrain the images into his memory forever. |
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| The steep slopes of the valley floor rise majestically skywards to provide the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. |
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| Thousands of visitors craned their necks skywards to watch skilful displays by the owners of the painstakingly-built giant model aircraft. |
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| We made our way past the little lake, stocked with dead trees, their branches reaching skywards through leftover mist. |
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| Later on, as she was making dinner, she paused mid-stir with the wooden spatula deep into the Quorn mince and looked wistfully skywards. |
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| The strip strike set the hook, his speed and momentum carried the fish skywards, head shaking, gills flared. |
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| Taiyou embraced the girl for a few moments, turning her head skywards towards the Eternal Star. |
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| He looked skywards, imploring silently to the heavens above, hoping for divine inspiration. |
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| They have brought the 4 exhausts into one, with the pipe curling around the front of the sidecar and then going skywards. |
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| One seemed to live and dream, aircraft and to this day I automatically crane skywards at the sound of a piston engine. |
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| Doubling curves are nearly flat for a long time, then voom, they take off skywards in a hot second. |
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| In minutes, a small but bright fire sent a thick stream of black smoke skywards. |
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| First it seems to suffocate everything, then it dances skywards up the stage tower. |
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| The two-inch high flower appears to have a thumb and three fingers, one pointing skywards. |
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| With a sudden jolt, the primary engines caught and the ship sped skywards on a comet of light. |
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| As if some secret password has removed the laws of gravity for a moment, this massive jet bounds skywards. |
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| I rose skywards like a water-moth for the sun, emerged and strapped on my diving gear for my next oceanic clear-cut. |
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| The burst of flash illuminates a mass of arms raised, index fingers and little fingers pointing skywards, in the time-honoured rock salute. |
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| If star-crossed Romeos think of their moon-faced Juliets every time they look skywards, why not the man on the street. |
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| Sodden and anxious, riverbank dwellers gazed skywards as the heavens opened. |
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| For as his hind legs collapsed beneath him he seemed to tower upwards like a huge rock toppling, his trunk reaching skywards like a tree. |
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| These talented personalities took the brand's image skywards throughout the world in the «elegance is an attitude» advertising campaign. |
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| Adults and children alike braved rides at the funfair, which included a 75 foot high bungee capsule, propelling riders skywards on elasticated cables. |
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| Grey office chairs and tables crack apart and are whisked skywards, dangling above the action like a huge prickly bush. |
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| That labrador actually has a role in The First Men in the Moon, looking dolefully skywards as his master's spaceship disappears. |
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| To lift these giant blades skywards, the world's largest crawler crane was developed with a weight of 1,600 tonnes. |
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| With the arrival of modern architecture and the elevator, cities were suddenly able to expand skywards. |
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| Sjt Johnstone said 'Bail out' and the Capt gave one hesitant look skywards and then both were gone. |
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| Thanks to a rope and pulley system cows climb skywards then disappear into the hold of the sailing vessel. |
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| Vast ferns towered skywards, with immense, thick leaves absorbing the poisonous gases and breathing out oxygen by day and nitrogen by night. |
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| The towers of the Tourbouillon Castle Ruin and the Valeria Fortress rising skywards make Sion recognisable from afar. |
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| But instead of investing his energy into outward noise that drifts skywards into nothingness, you sense he invests energy inwards, into making himself the best that he can be. |
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| With the help of this original, weatherproof trellis, there is nothing to stop that flowering clematis on its way skywards. |
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| I rowed on with my mouth open and pointing skywards, regularly licking the stream of fresh water from my shoulders and upper arms. |
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| The need for the work to take place was graphically-illustrated when two of the ornate finials that point skywards at the top of the tower fell down. |
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| During her 2011 tour of Canada, a skimpy yellow frock flew skywards on a Calgary airfield. |
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| At the final whistle the ball zinged out the ground, carrying with it only a modicum of the frustration which prompted Ferguson to smack it skywards in the first place. |
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| Oh, the agonies of a principal cellist who soars elegantly skywards in a Shostakovich symphony only to have the reviewer point out the ropiness of the cello section! |
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| And the euro, which had been in virtual free-fall, leapt skywards. |
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| Unexpectedly, out of instinct, I suppose, his gaze turned skywards. |
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| Another wonder is the Ghost Tree, its bare branches of the smoothness and colour of ivory curving skywards in supplication as it gleams spectrally in the dying light. |
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| Within ten minutes the stagecoach rocked back into motion and sent a cloud of dust and dirt and grit billowing skywards across the yard towards the gray clapboard building. |
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| They were in a frenzy, and over the next two hours roared their team to a victory that culminated with captain Daniel Alberto Passarella raising the legendary FIFA World Cup trophy skywards. |
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| The idea comes from one of his partners: if they were to turn skywards the most recent bridge designed in the Eiffel workshop, they would have the giant tower dreamed of by all Europe and the United States! |
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| The line runs further forward of the centre of gravity compared to normal pulleys, it is therefore possible that your feet rise skywards when you accelerate. |
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| The Conference offered nothing to remedy the huge influx of speculative capital into food commodity future markets which in conjunction with the biofuel rush is pushing staple prices skywards. |
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| At the heart of a postcard, we stroll along the world's largest financial centre: the mythical Wall Street along which giant buildings reach skywards. |
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| Visitors climb skywards, step by step, and are rewarded by unusual glimpses of Europe's current capital of culture as well as works by contemporary artists of international renown such as Pipilotti Rist and Roman Signer. |
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| German banks are also developing a taste for foreign purchases: Deutsche Bank's boss, Rolf Breuer, said last month that he was contemplating a French acquisition, and duly sent bank shares skywards. |
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| Not until we are right underneath them can I see that they are perhaps 40 stories high, and that there are three of them, curling skywards like the fat leaves of some strange desert plant. |
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| While the world stews over the economic crisis, Dubai works to its own rules: build it and they will come. But it is not just hotels, office blocks and holiday resorts that are rising skywards from the sands. |
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| With a vibrating, gurglingly groan, a huge jet of boiling steam rocketed skywards dissipating their brief encounter. |
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| The ride uses bungee ropes to throw punters skywards at high speed before they bounce up and down. |
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| By the time you realise what's happened, your treat is soaring skywards and you're left with an empty ice-cream cone. |
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| There are lots of graphics – 3D blue power towers rising phallically skywards out of London while, in the extreme south-west, Cornwall sinks below the Somerset levels, economically, if not in elevation. |
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| Mechef: race to the big gallop while pulling skywards to fire. |
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| Kinder Ferrero sent its sales skywards in the airports of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Frankfurt, Paris-Orly and Madrid thanks to a football-based BTL promotional campaign designed and implemented by Blue Spirit Lausanne. |
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| As the US tycoon stepped off his personalised Boeing 727 and onto the tarmac on the isle of Lewis, a playful gust undid his artfully contrived hairdo, blowing long wisps of his trademark ducktail skywards. |
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