In addition, the two gable-like forms are noticeably more pointed than the ones common to the abandoned farmland as if they are reaching heavenward, alluding to a longing for divine intervention.

Sitting on chairs, they tossed their gold silk robes in angry grief, then reached heavenward, as if seeking answers.

The spires of churches and cypress trees reach heavenward, toward us.

With fingertips reaching heavenward, head thrown back in pagan abandon, back arched, Chantal whirled madly.

In the contemplation of the Romantic Tree - self-reliant, aloof from history, reaching ever heavenward - we could find an antidote to our mean commercial culture.

Those magical fluting spires reached heavenward from a muck where "you can buy anything . . . anything at all."

Atop the Keel, the magic was a steady glow that illumi- nated the battlements and reached heavenward.

The young women swayed as if in a trance, their arms reaching heavenward.

It was slender and tall, its twining branches reaching heavenward.

I let my mind recover the sight of Marius burning, Marius a living torch, turning and twisting in the fire, his fine fingers reaching heavenward like spiders in the orange flame.