Citations:celestial


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then said Good-will, Alas, poor man! is the celestial glory of so small esteem with him, that he counteth it not worth running the hazards of a few difficulties to obtain it?


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He then conveyed him and his sister into the veriest old well of a shivering best-parlour that ever was seen, where the maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy with cold.


 * 1893 — Harry Withers Chubb.  "The Construction of Locks and Safes".   Journal of the Society for Arts, Vol. 41, no. 2108.  pp. 510–528.
 * But as this style of padlock is found to be the almost universal one now in China, one is tempted to ask who was the first and true inventor, Roman or Celestial ?