Meaning of Skyland | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The sky.
   poetic
2. A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
3. A mythical abode of gods or spirits in the sky; a heaven.
4. A land above the sky, such as a floating city or another planet.

Examples

“Look to the woodlands where the doves / Crowd with their murmurs green alcoves; / Look to the skylands where the clouds / Mantle the East with their glory-shrouds.”

“And the winds from the skylands brought / Over the illimitudes, a thought:— / A thought I could not understand, / That earth lay shadowed ’neath God’s hand.”

“In the warmest summer weather a temperature of 88 degrees may be reached, but not for long at a time, since speedily a moderating breeze with comforting designs steals down from the skylands.”

“The sun with its white-blue-sky coverlet sunk deep down the far horizon giving way to a skyland that wore a grey outfit.”

““How, how, sister,” greeted Keyahanhi, recalled from the skylands by her welcome coming.”

“Manitou from the skylands once did score / Where the people today have built their homes.”

“With this supernatural vision went the ability to travel to the skyland, the undersea home of the seals, and the underground land of the dead, where they could communicate with and pacify the forces of nature.”

“That is how ancestors came from the skylands to the left.”

“She then went to Miss Green’s house who, when she heard the sound of the six pipe flute, expected to see her husband return from the skyland. She opened the door. Instead, it was the tiger demon who touched the hem of her skirt causing her to fall down in a dead faint.”

“Tearing his eyes from the skylands, he called, “You warned me that Blood was going to catch me, back there in the city while you were renting these donkeys for us. What do you think he’ll do to me if he does?””

“First he has to find the place, and as the sleeve of night brings darkness to his city of Viron, light to the skylands above, he sets out on his quest.”

“They passed a number of islands as well as a few low lying skylands, all heavy with vegetation and life.”

“The military intelligence confidently surmises that their ethnic origin is either from the skylands in the clouds of Jupiter or from Uranus.”

“But that day in the skylands of Skod, the day of deliverance, I never set out to do anything like what I’m given credit for.”

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