"Vault of heaven" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the same primitive Indo-European root come the Latin words dies (day), deus or divus (god); the dark sombre vault of heaven is Varuna, the Greek ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... accurately ascertaining his precise position. His rest had been deep and undisturbed; and when he awoke, it was with a clearness of intellect and a readiness of resources that were very much needed at that particular moment. The sun had not risen, it is true, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning softness that "brings and shuts the day," while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe. These sounds first told Deerslayer the risks he ran. The air, for wind it could scarce be called, was still light, ...
— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper
... vault of heaven the stars looked down upon that lonely grave like the watching eyes of ...
— Beltane The Smith • Jeffery Farnol
... to within an inch and a half of Berry's chin he blared and raved like a maniac, alternately pointing to his shrinking protegee and indicating the blue vault of heaven with frightful emphasis. ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates
... upon the frozen landscape—the deep, wintry peace of the vast, snow-bound Nor'West. A light breeze murmured over the crisping snow, and moaned amongst the pines in the timber-lined spurs of the foothills. High overhead in the sunny, dazzling blue vault of heaven a huge solitary hawk slowly circled with wide-spread, motionless wings, uttering intermittently ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
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