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Sentences starting with rays

Rays of sunlight pierce the clouds occasionally. [4]

Sentences ending with rays

As they reached the village of Winzer, the victorious sun was approaching the western horizon, and diffused over it a fan of golden rays. [10]
As they reached the Glen House all the line of rugged mountain-peaks was violet in the reflected rays. [4]
Speak of the sun and you see its rays! [2]
She also had seen the great peaks lift themselves out of the gray dawn, and Monte Rosa catch the first rays. [4]
The noon sun seemed to steep the white vapor with light, and lure it upward by its ardent rays. [10]
I was aware of a man standing, tall and straight, just out of range of the candles' rays. [9]
Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays. [6]

More example sentences with the word rays in them

One heavenward draws, with rays so mild and clear, Eyes dim with tears, when the world darkness veils, Showing 'mid desert wastes the spring anear, If, spent with wandering, your courage fails. [10]
It was flooded with level, yellow rays of light that seemed to be searching the corners in vain for dust. [9]
The wind brought with it a suggestion of the pine-clad wastes of the northwestern wilderness whence it came, and that sure harbinger of autumn, the blue haze, settled around the hills, and benumbed the rays of the sun lingering over the crests. [9]
The other light, whose power full well you know, E'en though in words I nor describe nor name, Alike for me and you its rays aye glow-- Maternal love, by day and night the same. [10]
Everywhere the restless white rays of the searchlights pierced the darkness, seeking, but seeking in vain. [9]
There are plants which open their flowers with the first rays of the sun; there are others that wait until evening to spread their petals. [6]
The great banqueting-hall was bright as day--even brighter, from the light of thousands of candles whose rays were reflected in the gold plates forming the panelling of the walls. [10]
A pair of turtle doves over their heads were less indifferent to the sun's rays than they, for the birds had closed their eyes, and the head of the mother bird was resting languidly against the dark collar round her mate's neck. [10]
As if responding to them but with a different sort of merriment, the metallic sound of the bells reverberated high above and the hot rays of the sun bathed the top of the opposite slope with yet another sort of merriment. [2]
May it prove to him who comes after me like the cave of the Sibyl, out of the gloomy depths of which came the oracles which shone with the rays of truth and wisdom! [6]
He had gone to bed in the evening, and yet he now saw, by the direction of the sun's rays which fell on his bed, that, instead of dawning as he had expected, the day was growing dark. [10]
The candles threw their flickering rays upward until they danced on the high ceiling. [9]
She was like the sun; on whatsoever dim and humble object her rays fell, that thing was straightway drowned in glory. [5]
It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. [6]
None as yet; the red rays of the battle-field had not streamed off so far as this. [6]
Then look at the rays which pass from the inner to the outer circle. [6]
So long as the moon shone, flickering rays danced and sparkled on the ice and snow, but afterwards only the tedious glimmer of the universal snow-pall lighted the traveller's way. [10]
Upward mounting, till the earth, no longer bathed in the sun's rays, went out to my sight, disappeared in the blank. [4]
The castle on the cliff stood in proud glory gilded by the rays of the declining sun. [14]
The fragrant marshes that bordered it were a vivid green under the slanting rays of the sun, and she was gazing across them at the breakers crashing on the beach beyond. [9]
White walls, gaudily-painted temples and private villas gleamed among the green, and the slanting rays of the low sun, shining on the drops that fell from the never-resting wheels and buckets that irrigated the land, turned them into showers of diamonds. [10]
By mid-day the strips of shade too had vanished, where she had found shelter from the rays of the sun, which now beat down unmercifully on her un protected head. [10]
Moor was soon standing at the head of the sick-bed, holding a light, so that its rays could fall upon the face of the gasping man. [10]
There may be something in this: but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring from my face, I should be grateful for shade. [4]
She was never so happy as when Helios warmed her back with his rays, for her old blood needed it after the long night-watches that she still would keep in her observatory. [10]
The sun was slanting his last rays into the corridors as I musingly looked down from one of the arched openings, quite spellbound by the strangeness and dead silence of the place, broken only by the plash of waves on the sandy beach below. [4]
Each seemed a skull, with rays darting from its grinning eye-holes. [9]
Instead of her silver rays, the long entry of the Ortlieb house, with its lofty ceiling, was illumined only by the light of three lanterns, which struggled dimly through horn panes. [10]
Our eyes caught sight of a form in the blockhouse port, there was an instant when a candle flung its rays upon a cannon's flank, and Tom's rifle spat a rod of flame. [9]
A lantern's rays shot through the hall. [9]
The setting sun shot slanting rays on the glittering surface of the glassy waters in which the numberless masts of the Nile-boats were mirrored. [10]
Starting from slumber round my room I gaze My hand of my own life-blood bears the stain; I am the poppy-leaf, with the first rays Of morning snatched away from earth's domain. [10]
The sun had risen brightly and its slanting rays struck straight into Napoleon's face as, shading his eyes with his hand, he looked at the fleches. [2]
Bare, parched rocks rise in naked beauty at the north of the bay, and the rays of the young day-star shot golden threads through the light white mists, that floated around them. [10]
Its rays were reflected from the little round window-panes, and flickered over the tree-tops on the edge of the ravine. [10]
In him were received the imaginations, the inventions, the aspirations, the superstitions, the humors, the supernatural intimations; in him met the converging rays of the genius of his age, as in a lens, to be sent onward thenceforth in an ever-broadening stream of light. [4]
How well I recall that schoolroom of a bright morning, the sun's rays shot hither and thither, and split violet, green, and red by the bulging glass panes of the windows. [9]
The sun had reached the other side of the house, and its slanting rays shone into the open window, lighting up the room and part of the morocco cushion at which Princess Mary was looking. [2]
Will not the rays strike through to his brain at last, and send him to a narrower cell than this egg-shell dome which is his workshop and his prison? [6]
Not until the rays of the setting sun were forcing their way through the pinks and rose bushes with which Pyramus kept her window adorned throughout the year, because she loved flowers, and the vesper bells were chiming, did her friend return. [10]
The old oak, quite transfigured, spreading out a canopy of sappy dark-green foliage, stood rapt and slightly trembling in the rays of the evening sun. [2]
A magnificent canopy protected him above, and large, thick, round ostrich feather fans, carried by his fan-bearers, sheltered him on both sides from the scorching rays of the sun. [10]
In a court-yard, protected from the rays of the sun only by an awning, was a large walled bason, containing a solution of natron, in which the bodies were salted, and they were then dried in a stone vault, artificially supplied with hot air. [10]
The sun's rays pierced it and gathered fire; the mighty river beside us rolled listless and sullen, flinging back the heat defiantly. [9]
Lamps of colored papyrus hung against the walls and threw a strange light on the scene, something like that when the sun's rays strike through colored glass. [10]
We soon found ourselves in a heavenly spot,--sheltered from the sun's rays by a dense verdure,--and no one who has not visited these Southern country places can know the teeming fragrance there. [9]
The green velarium or awning, which during the day had screened off the sun's rays where the middle of the ceiling was open to the sky, was now rolled back, and the moon and stars looked down into the room. [10]
They were neither opaque nor smouldering,--but Western eyes, amber-coloured, with delicately stencilled rays and long lashes. [9]
A man lay on the hard marble, a man who had drawn his light cloak over his face to protect himself from the rays of the sun, now rising higher and higher. [10]
A lantern hung on the central post and flung its rays upon his face. [9]
The minutes drift on and on and on, with not a sound but the ticking of the clock; at last the sun fires a sudden sheaf of rays into the ghostly tree and turns it into a white splendor of glittering diamonds. [5]
The reddish-yellow rays of their broad flames were darkened by the canopy, and scarcely revealed the invalid's face. [10]
The hot rays of the sun beat down vertically and a fresh soft wind played with the hair of the bared heads and with the ribbons decorating the icon. [2]
The last rays of the setting sun sent golden bars through the leaves. [13]
See Yarrell's account of the rays in his 'History of British Fishes,' vol. [1]
Besides, the rays of the dim candle did not extend to them any more than to the valueless pictures of saints and virgins on the wall. [10]
The hot rays of the day-star were not lasting, for "they drew rain. [10]
In the bow of the boat is a light in a "jack," the rays of which are shielded from the boat and its occupants. [4]
By the light of the august one whose rays greet us, let it be said: You will see again. [10]
In a blaze of joy the sun swept down behind the southern hills, and the windows of Lumley's house at the Forks, catching the oblique rays, glittered and shone like flaming silver. [11]
But they were not cool deeps by any means, for the sun's rays were weltering hot and there was little or no breeze to temper them. [5]
The eye could no longer gaze at the mighty globe of light whose rays pierced the fine white dust which hung over the declivity of the hills that enclosed the city of the dead on the west. [10]
The water was no longer calm, but furrowed by countless little ripples, on whose crests the rays from above played, sparkling and flashing restlessly. [10]
Though there was no breath of air the atmosphere quivered, as it seemed from the fierce rays of the sun, which were reflected like arrows from everything around him. [10]
We spent a night at Amiens, and had several hours for the old cathedral, the sunset light on its noble front and towers and spire and flying buttresses, and the morning rays bathing its rich stone. [4]
It was the nation's emblem transfigured by the departing rays of a sun that was entirely palled from view; and on no other object did the glory fall, in all the broad panorama of mountain ranges and deserts. [5]
And, though the month was March, the slopes of Burrow Head were green as the lawn of Carvel Hall in May, and the slanting rays danced on the ruffed water. [9]
It was the moment when the last ruddy rays of the sunset brightened momentarily before yielding to twilight. [13]
Look in with me, then, while I attempt to throw some rays into its interior, which shall illuminate a few of its pillars and cornices, and show at the same time how many niches and alcoves remain in darkness. [3]
The sun hung low over the old-world gables in the street beyond the wall, and in the level rays was an apple tree dazzling white, like a bride. [9]
There was no light in Arsinoe's room but that which could creep in through a narrow opening just below the ceiling; the slanting rays fell directly on the bed up to which Keraunus went. [10]
Bright rays of light flashed from their whirling ranks all the time, for each dancer had a mirror fastened between her shoulders, which flashed while she was in motion, and reflected the scene when she was still. [10]
Venters watched the lengthening of the rays and bars, and marveled at his own league-long shadow. [13]
But hearts, you know, are wonderfully made; they're like the sun who sends his rays everywhere, and loses neither warmth nor light by giving much, but gives to all their due. [10]
The sun had just risen in the east above the square of St. Lawrence and spread a golden fan of rays over the azure sky. [10]
Unbelievably strange, however, it was that the rays of his anger by some subconscious process had hovered from the first about the son of Hilary Vane, and were now, by the trend of event after event, firmly focussed there. [9]
During her slumber it had grown dark, and a small lamp, whose rays a handkerchief shielded from her eyes, was standing on the stove in one corner of the room. [10]
The burning heat it diffused seemed to have consumed its rays, which to-day were invisible. [10]
How delicious it is to breathe the pure, light, aromatic air on the heights, before the rays of the sun acquire their mid-day power, and the shadows of the heated porphyry cliffs, growing shorter and shorter, at last wholly disappear! [10]
A burning ambition is the sun, whose rays guide all your actions. [10]
He was ushered into a library where the shades were already drawn, where a-white-clothed tea-table was set before the fire, the red rays dancing on the silver tea-kettle. [9]
We know our humanity by its often intercepted rays, as we tell a revolving light from a star or meteor by its constantly recurring obscuration. [6]
It was the hottest day we had seen yet--the sun-flames shot down like the shafts of fire that stream out before a blow-pipe--the rays seemed to fall in a steady deluge on the head and pass downward like rain from a roof. [5]
The sun darting his cheerful rays into the room, awoke her; and now there remained but to take leave of the poor schoolmaster and wander forth once more. [12]
When at last he rose he first inquired about the weather, and expressed his satisfaction when he heard that the sun had risen with burning rays, but was now veiled in threatening clouds. [10]
The city was hardly waking as yet, but straight silver columns of smoke rolled up out of many chimneys, and the golden cross on the cathedral caught the first rays of the sun. [11]
On the other hand, this mysterious perception by her of things unseen and hitherto unguessed, of rays of delight in the spectrum of values to which his senses were unattuned, was for Ditmar the supreme essence of her fascination. [9]
It spread, and got lighter and brighter: soon it had a strong glare like a locomotive headlight; it kept on getting brighter and brighter till it was like the sun peeping above the horizon-line at sea--the big red rays shot high up into the sky. [5]
The rays of glittering snow and ice, that clasped its summit like a claw, looked refreshing when viewed from the blistering climate we were in. [5]
Every single moment, from the breaking of the gold bar through the bridge at dawn on to the reddening of rays over the western wall, was one of colorful change. [13]
All night had Francois and his men worked, and the first rays of the morning sun fell on the tall shivered shaft set firmly in its place. [11]
To this, the figure beckoned them; at the same time drawing within its rays, as if to show that it had no desire to conceal itself or take them at an advantage. [12]
As I was feeling vainly for the bolt of the postern, rays of light suddenly shot my shadow against the door. [9]
She felt his eyes upon her, and their searching, yet kindly and humorous rays seemed to illuminate chambers within her which she would have kept in darkness: which she herself did not wish to examine. [9]
The big fresh drops on the leaves and blossoms sparkled and glittered in the last rays of the sun. [10]
Two young men dressed like the other runners followed the chariot, and kept the rays of the sun off the face of their mistress with large fans of snow-white ostrich feathers fastened to long wands. [10]
He rose immediately, crossed the temple-court, paved with stone and asphalte, on which the sun's rays were darting like fiery arrows, and turned into one of the long avenues of Sphinxes which led to the isolated Pylons before the gigantic temple of the goddess. [10]
The thunderstorm had cooled the air, but the rays of the morning sun were already scorching. [10]
First a fan, composed of countless glowing rays which spread in dazzling radiance over the west, rose from the vanishing orb and for several minutes adorned the lofty dome of the deep-blue sky like the tail of a gigantic peacock. [10]
We waited without comment while the smoke crept by degrees towards the little white spindle on the tip of the point, now and again catching a gleam of the sun's rays from off the glass of the lantern. [9]

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