“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet.… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes. That's God, I think, the rising sun and the light is too bright… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Departing at dawn, the rising sun lit up the hills before them, exposing their prominence and dangers. It was as though the… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“I want to see the Parthenon by moonlight.' I had my way. They floodlight it now, to great advantage I am told,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“However bright a torch might burn it could never match the rising sun.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“Faith steals upon you like dew: some days you wake and it is there. And like dew, it gets burned off in… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“coat. Above them, the rising sun was obscured behind the thick” — Michael C. Grumley Copy Share Image
“As Prairie Flower faced the rising sun and braided her hair,White Eagle strolled by. He had glanced her way many times. Today… — Stephanie Grace Whitson Copy Share Image
“Though small, the shrine has a long history. In 1333—the Third Year of the Genko era—Lord Takeshigé Kikuchi ascended to it in… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
As we drifted to earth I sat up on the glass roof of the capsule, watching the beauty of the golden dawn… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun. — Arna Bontemps Copy Share Image
“They looked at each other for a moment. The moment became a longer moment, and suddenly it was a very long moment,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“At one point, in the east, the mists grew lighter and were clad in gold, like warriors. Then the mists swayed, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Oh, you are indeed there, my skylark! Come to me. You are not gone: not vanished? I heard one of your kind… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Are you okay? You look great,” he said, with a catch in his voice. “The best thing I’ve ever seen—” “That’s because… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image