"Soar up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... foolish things, And other times they try To tell their gladness when their wings Soar up ...
— Child Songs of Cheer • Evaleen Stein
... steward and the carpenter were stowing provisions under the thwarts, making the two almost jump out of their skins. It descended into the sea with the same sort of "whish" which the stick of a signal rocket makes when, the propelling power that had enabled it previously to soar up so majestically into the air above being ultimately exhausted, it is forced to return by its own gravity to its proper level below, unable to sustain itself unaided by exterior help at the unaccustomed height to which it was ...
— On Board the Esmeralda - Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story • John Conroy Hutcheson
... liveliest and merriest of God's creatures can not see an inch before them. Small birds and insects, which feed on very minute insects, need eyes like microscopes to find them; while the eagle and the fish hawk, which soar up till they are almost out of sight, can distinctly see the hare or the herring a mile below them, and so must have eyes like telescopes. We, too, need to observe minute objects very closely, as when we read fine print, or when a lady threads ...
— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson
... in a speech (curt Tuscan, Expurgate and sober, with scarcely an "issimo"), To end now our half-told tale of Cambuscan, And turn the bell-tower's ALT to ALTISSIMO; And, fine as the beak of a young beccaccia, The Campanile, the Duomo's fit ally, Shall soar up in gold full fifty braccia, ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson
... of this style; its large and simple harmonies, depending for effect upon sincerity of plan and justice of balance. The square masses of the main building, the projecting cornices and rounded tribune, meet together and soar up into the cupola; while the grand but austere proportions of the arches and the piers compose a symphony of perfectly concordant lines. The music is grave and solemn, architecturally expressed in terms of measured space and outlined symmetry. The whole effect is that of one thing pleasant ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds |
