Their eyes were rivetted
skyward. High above them, something blacker than the heavens themselves, stupendous, huge, seemed suddenly to assume to itself shape.
Not far out, and coming in across the Jessie's anchorage, he saw a whale-boat's nose thrust
skyward on a smoky crest and disappear naturally, as an actual whale-boat's nose should disappear, as it slid down the back of the sea.
He plumped down on his bob tail, lifted golden muzzle
skyward, and emitted a long puppy-wail of dismay and grief.
Well, when Fiske's voice went soaring
skyward and the rest joined in, poor Ikey wakened with a start.
These huge brass tubes, mounted on their scaffoldings and pointed
skyward from every choice vantage-ground, have the formidable look of artillery, and give the town the general aspect of getting ready to repel a charge of angels.
Considering that the price of dogs had been boomed
skyward by the unwonted demand, it was not an unfair sum for so fine an animal.
The Carquinez Straits were a welter of foam and smother, and we came through them wildly before the wind, the big mainsail alternately dipping and flinging its boom
skyward as we tore along.
He would have seen the streets filled with the chattering yellow populace, every queued head tilted back, every slant eye turned
skyward. And high up in the blue he would have beheld a tiny dot of black, which, because of its orderly evolutions, he would have identified as an airship.
One by one the wolves joined her, till the whole pack, on haunches, with noses pointed
skyward, was howling its hunger cry.
At the next crossing several similar smoke pillars were rising
skyward in the direction of the West Side.
And then, where a vagrant shaft of sunlight struck the ocean and turned its surface to wrathful silver, I caught a small black speck thrust
skyward for an instant and swallowed up.
On Wednesday and Saturday afternoons particularly you could scarcely look
skyward for a quarter of an hour without discovering a balloon somewhere.