Definition of "heavens above" []

• Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration. (interjection)

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• "She was awakened by the stoppage of the cart, and opening her eyes to the grey yet soft heavens above and the wonder of waking in the open air, found herself at the end of a road which led up to a farmstead at the mouth of Glencroe where the valley opens out upon the shore of that long inlet of the sea which is called Loch Long."
• "And [as for] the utter impossibility that appears by any other way to separate the silver from the dross, to separate us from the world, the plague, the fire, have not done it; signs in the heavens above and in the earth beneath have not done it; the sincere preaching of the gospel, though in weakness, bath not done it; entreaties, beggings, exhortations, have not done it; our prayers have not done it: we cleave unto the world still."