blue firmament

Gone was the frowning sky and all the blue firmament seemed one tender smile.

No clouds scudded across the intense blue firmament.

Annie was scratching at the sky with her hand as if she wanted to hook her hand into the bright blue firmament.

By degrees the wind abated, vast gray clouds rolled towards the west, and the blue firmament appeared studded with bright stars.

"No, sir," James replied, 101 eyeing the lofty pines, which swayed with fairy-wing tips into the blue firmament above.

Above, high and high, constellations of electric stars winked in a blue firmament that was now showing plenty of cracks.

But now . . ." Trevayne swept his arm around in a gesture that encompassed the cloud-fleeced blue firmament above.

I had never known such a brilliant evening; it seemed to me that my soul expanded to embrace the shimmering stars as they appeared in the radiant blue firmament.

One kind was brilliant - exuberant with shimmering sunlight and a deep blue firmament, the snowburnished mountains blazing against the sky; the world sparkled and made the heart pound.

The orange-yellow crescent moon makes a stark contrast to the vivid blue firmament, recalling Vincent van Gogh's belief that arbitrary color allowed him to express himself "more forcefully."

The drawings were almost as inscrutable as the words, for they showed a strange hive-shaped object resting on a short stack of thin disks and floating in a blue firmament - water perhaps.

The lofty summit of the Sierra Nevada alone retained a lingering gleam of daylight; its snowy peaks glaring against the dark blue firmament, and seeming close to us, from the extreme purity of the atmosphere.

Overhead, almost at the limits of vision, the sparkling pinpoint abruptly veered left, brightened, and exploded in radiance, splitting apart amid an orgy of chaos, scattering fiery, ionic embers across the dark blue firmament of the stratosphere.