Skyless

Such misplaced faith might wither some if they knew how afraid I am of small, skyless places. ❋ LAURA BYNUM (2010)

It was a skyless world, in which his eye; through dim gulfs of shadowy air, saw only ever-mounting slopes, great walls of stone behind great walls, and frowning precipices wreathed with mist. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

Black, wet gusts dragged now and then through the skyless fog, striking her face with ❋ Various (N/A)

Space, illimitable space, surrounded me -- skyless, starless space. ❋ Unknown (1899)

There needed courage -- yes, there needed courage -- on a morning such as this, when the skyless atmosphere weighed drearily on heart and mind, when hope had become a far-off thing, banished for long months from a grey, cold world, to go through with the task which Irene had set herself. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

In what black, skyless, leafless town was she pursuing her lonely life? ❋ George Gissing (1880)

It was, -- a breathless quiet; the great streets of the town behind them were shrouded in snow; the hills, the moors, the prairie swept off into the skyless dark, a gray and motionless sea lit by a low watery moon. ❋ Rebecca Harding Davis (1870)

Black, wet gusts dragged now and then through the skyless fog, striking her face with a chill. ❋ Rebecca Harding Davis (1870)

A perpetual escape out of the smoky, grimy city mazes was trumpeted to her in the winds up there: a recollected contrast lightened the skyless broad spaces overhead almost to sunniness. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Pointing up to skyless heaven like the spoon out of sergeantmajor’s tay. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Work for posterity," says he of the skyless philosophy; answers the man, "How can I work without hope? ❋ George MacDonald (1864)