“Behold all the stars in the firmament proceeding in their courses from east to west.”

“After Sunderland's death, Cadogan and Roxburghe had joined a new star in the political firmament, the ambitious Lord Carteret.”

“The Roman philosopher Seneca proposed that the auroras were flames slipping through cracks in the heavenly firmament.”

“They attracted earnest and cool talent too, enlisting Will Self and Jarvis Cocker from the literary and musical firmaments.”

“So He completed them as seven firmaments in two Days, and He assigned to each heaven its duty and command.”

“It is hard not to feel, though, that the experiment of triple-ply cumulative fecklessness was meant for sunnier climes and solider firmaments, for a sky more securely fastened to the ceiling.”