Lexicographical Neighbors of Skyborn
Literary usage of Skyborn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1833)
"I saw a face of such surpassing beauty That Jove, and Nature, should they both
contend To make a shape of their mix'd purity, Could not invent a skyborn ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Thick as from Zeus fly flakes of snow, borne cold By skyborn Boreas in an onward
blast, So thick from out the fleet came pouring forth Boss'd bucklers, ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1917)
"Even so the mighty skyborn stream ; Its living waters from above All marred and
broken seem, No union and no love. Yet in dim caves they softly blend In ..."
4. Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth by John Weiss (1864)
"... and hate to leave them, for I " would not willingly lose sight of a departing
cloud;" but you know I have not seen my skyborn these near three weeks, ..."
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