skies
See also: skiés
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skies
- plural of sky though essentially synonymous with singular form; the heavens; the firmament; the atmosphere.
- 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
- "And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
- plural of skie.
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skies
- third-person singular simple present indicative of sky
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skies
- third-person singular simple present indicative of ski
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