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Examples
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Thompson, with his heaven-aspiring whiskers, was laughing at him.
FINIS 2010
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Even youth will hesitate at an all-night ride, on an empty stomach, outside a train that is tearing the atmosphere through the snow-sheds, tunnels, and eternal snows of heaven-aspiring mountains.
Confession 2010
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It was a great moment, the master's moment -- caught all aback with all our bulk and tonnage and infinitude of gear, and our heaven-aspiring masts two hundred feet above our heads.
CHAPTER XXVIII 2010
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An old king could never sit upon this heaven-aspiring throne.
The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979
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Pindar stands like some fabled heaven-aspiring peak, conspicuous from afar, girdled at the base with ice and snow, beaten by winds, wreathed round with steam and vapor, jutting a sharp and dazzling outline into cold blue ether.
Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson
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It was a great moment, the master's moment -- caught all aback with all our bulk and tonnage and infinitude of gear, and our heaven-aspiring masts two hundred feet above our heads.
Chapter 28 1914
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The shadow had lifted from the world; the skies were alight with gladness; my heart was heaven-aspiring in its ecstasy.
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Both are volcanic islands, ragged of sky-line, with heaven-aspiring peaks and minarets.
Chapter 12 1913
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Both are volcanic islands, ragged of sky-line, with heaven-aspiring peaks and minarets.
Chapter 12 1911
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Both are volcanic islands, ragged of sky line, with heaven-aspiring peaks and minarets.
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