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"Sunburst" Quotes from Famous Books

... God she'd never come with them bright laughin' eyes,— Had never flashed that smile that seems a sunburst from the skies,— Had stayed there in her city home instead o' comin' here To visit at the ranch an' knock my heart plumb out o' gear. I wish to God she'd talk to me in a way to fit the case,— In ...

— Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp • Various

... and the sun as I write is hidden in thick clouds, high over Kettleness. Everything is gray except the green grass, which seems like emerald amongst it, gray earthy rock, gray clouds, tinged with the sunburst at the far edge, hang over the gray sea, into which the sandpoints stretch like gray figures. The sea is tumbling in over the shallows and the sandy flats with a roar, muffled in the sea-mists drifting inland. The horizon is lost in a gray mist. All vastness, the clouds are piled up like giant ...

— Dracula • Bram Stoker

... the swords which guarded them were not the straight swords of England or of France. Doubtless a deeper and more solemn memory ought to return immediately to the mind where that gate looks down the great highway; as if one could see, hung over it in the sky for ever, the cloud concealing the sunburst that broods upon the road to Damascus. But I am here only confessing the facts or fancies of my first impression; and again the fancy that came to me first was not of any such alien or awful things. I did not think of damask or ...

— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton

... instant she brightened; she knew, or thought she knew, that she was not worth a million; so she smiled like a sunburst and caught him ...

— Overland • John William De Forest

... edged by narrow white stripes divides the flag diagonally from lower hoist corner to upper fly corner; the upper hoist-side triangle is blue and charged with a yellow, 12-rayed sunburst; the ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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