Use sunrise in a sentence
Sentences starting with sunrise
- Sunrise is a splendid tonic. [11]
- Sunrise in January is not very early, and sunrise at any season is not early for Coniston. [9]
- Sunrise over the Greek Temple of Philae and the splendid ruins of a farther time towering beside it! [11]
Sentences ending with sunrise
- Phaon had not yet returned from a nocturnal excursion, and for several days had not reached home until just before sunrise. [10]
- During the night which had proved so eventful to our friends, much had occurred in the king's camp, for the troops were to advance to the long-anticipated battle before sunrise. [10]
- By three o'clock we found it was no use, and so we got up and played cribbage and smoked pipes till sunrise. [5]
- That night talk was long and sleep short, and work was on again at sunrise. [11]
- When his eyes unclosed, day had come again, and he saw the rim of the opposite wall tipped with the gold of sunrise. [13]
- We've a long tramp over the glacier to-morrow, and we must start at sunrise. [11]
- It was about three hours before sunrise. [10]
- In the sunrise--well, they say it is very fine in the sunrise. [5]
- Presently, out of the stillness, the Governor's voice was heard condemning me to death by hanging, thirty days hence, at sunrise. [11]
- The steward awoke soon after sunrise. [10]
Short sentences using sunrise
- Before sunrise the wind changed. [10]
More example sentences with the word sunrise in them
- First came a wreath of roses and lotos-flowers, looking as if they had been plucked just before sunrise, for among the blossoms and leaves there flashed and sparkled a glittering dew of diamonds, lightly fastened on delicate silver wires. [10]
- Fully clothed, and wrapped in blankets, and huddled ourselves up, by the window, with lighted pipes, and fell into chat, while we waited in exceeding comfort to see how an Alpine sunrise was going to look by candlelight. [5]
- When they both woke, soon after sunrise, they had been dreaming of each other and gladly hailed the return of day. [10]
- It's always sunrise with that man, and fine and blazing, at that--never gets noon; though--leaves off and rises again. [5]
- It was under-tinged with all the colours of a morning sunrise over Mount Bobar not far beyond, lifting up its somnolent and massive head into the Eastern sky. [11]
- Before sunrise a wind came from the northern spruces; the dawn was cloudless, fiery red, and the air had an autumn sharpness. [9]
- His honest eyes were alight with an admiration that was unmistakable to the painter--perhaps to Cynthia also, for a glow that might have been of annoyance or anger, and yet was like the color of the mountain sunrise, answered in her cheek. [9]
- We were pretty well fagged out, now, but as we did not wish to miss the Alpine sunrise, we got through our dinner as quickly as possible and hurried off to bed. [5]
- Soon after sunrise we were followed by villagers armed with clubs and spears. [5]
- At sunrise, Mandane was kneeling by her mistress's couch, weeping bitterly and wondering that Nitetis could sleep so calmly. [10]
- The huge man was in his garden soon after sunrise gathering the dewy leaves for his feathered pets. [10]
- Before sunrise he was awakened by shouts and loud and rapid firing. [2]
- On Monday and Tuesday at sunrise we again had fair-to-middling views of the stupendous mountains; then, being well cooled off and refreshed, we were ready to chance the weather of the lower world once more. [5]
- It is said to hold particularly sacred water, which must be poured as a libation to the god at sunrise, unmixed with any other. [10]
- The workmen are to be here by sunrise, and if--" "Show me the key," interrupted Paulus. [10]
- There was no time to see the interior of the building, for Pyrrhus expected his guest to join him at the harbour at sunrise, and the eastern sky was already brightening with the approach of dawn. [10]
- Now, from sunrise till evening fell, Pollux was constant to his work. [10]
- The way lay through a parched tract of rocky desert, and the further they went the more intense was that wonderful flush in the west, till day broke behind the travellers and the glory of the sunrise quenched the vividness of its glow. [10]
- But their leader thought it well to postpone the attack till after sunrise, lest any of the fugitives should escape. [10]
- Instead of sparing them, he continued to work as usual from sunrise until mid-day, and while your sister was so ill he never left her bed, notwithstanding all our entreaties. [10]
- But at sunrise the next morning a shiver passed through him, and then a cold quiet stole over him, and Hepnon and the music of the Golden Pipes departed from the Voshti Hills, and came again no more. [11]
- The evening before, the magician had bidden Macrinus come to him at the third hour after sunrise of the next day, which he had unhesitatingly promised to do. [10]
- The curve of the great stone bridge had caught the sunrise, and through the magnificent arch burst a glorious stream of gold that shone with a long slant down into the center of Surprise Valley. [13]
- He touched for the evil, as usual; he held court in the gate at sunrise and tried cases, for he was himself Chief Justice of the King's Bench. [5]
- That very night the conscription descended upon Mahommed Selim, and by sunrise he was standing in front of the house of the Mamour with twelve others, to begin the march to Dongola. [11]
- At Redding, Connecticut, The April sunrise pours Over the hardwood ridges Softening and greening now In the first magic of Spring. [5]
- But Siptah protested that the Hathors had revealed at sunrise the happiness in store for him, and that the choice of each single blossom proved his assertion. [10]
- Soon after sunrise that morning she had carefully rebandaged his crushed thumb, which was not yet healed. [10]
- We took another swim in the Sea of Galilee at twilight yesterday, and another at sunrise this morning. [5]
- An hour before sunrise we had that leak mended in ship-shape fashion, and the water began to rise. [5]
- Every morning at sunrise they begin to eddy and roll--and who ever saw a stranger sight? [11]
- Every day at sunrise he walked to the door of his house and looked eastward steadily, and sometimes there broke from his lips the words: "My daughter-Carille! [11]
- To Venters both sunrise and sunset were unreal. [13]
- The hour between sunrise and mass was devoted to this work, in which Eva was to help her, and it would afford her much information; for her aunt raised many plants which possessed healing power. [10]
- Then came the sugaring, the warm days and the freezing nights when the earth stirs in her sleep and the taps drip from red sunrise to red sunset. [9]
- Day before yesterday Shields challenged Butler, who accepted, and proposed fighting next morning at sunrise in Bob Allen's meadow, one hundred yards' distance, with rifles. [7]
- Shortly before sunrise she was awakened by Berenike, who wished to take some rest, and who told her, before seeking her couch, that Apollinaris was doing well. [10]
- The parents and several friends of the bridegroom were present, and enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast and much festivity until nearly sunrise, and then departed on a bridal trip to the Aquarium, the bridegroom's state of health not admitting of a more extended journey. [5]
- After sunrise he refreshed himself with a morsel of food, and then hurried on again, not heeding the heat of noon, nor that of the soft sand in which his foot sank as he followed the line of the sea-coast. [10]
- The singers were ready early on the birthday morning, but Peter had risen before sunrise, for there was a proposition to be arranged with the city clerk, which must be completed before the meeting of the council. [10]
- I shall be punished if the water-jar is not standing on the altar by sunrise, and there is Klea's too to be filled. [10]
- His heart contracted painfully, and his solicitude about his uncle's fate increased when Philippus informed him that the conspirators had been arrested at the banquet and, headed by Amyntas, the Rhodian, Chrysippus, and Proclus, had perished by the executioner's sword at sunrise. [10]
- The night is over too soon in the morning, and the looms must be rattling again by sunrise. [10]
- Presently he came out, and said to me, 'Come, m'sieu', and see you clip the gentleman dainty fine for his sunrise travel. [11]
- It was just on the verge of sunrise. [11]
- When we lie on the Plains of Yath from sunset to sunrise, you never stir then. [11]
- Drink your fill of the sweet intoxicating air with eyes shut till the lungs are full and the heart beats with new fulness; then open them upon the wide sunrise and scan the veld so full of gracious odour. [11]
- On the morning of the fourth, at sunrise, I died. [4]
- The great masts of cedar, which Paaker sent from Lebanon to Thebes to bear our banners, and ornament our gateway, were thrown to the ground at sunrise by the frightful wind. [10]
- I have nothing now to do but set my house in order, and live the hours between this and sunrise with what quiet I may. [11]
- Your tongue was not still from sunrise to the end of the day. [11]
- Such depression did not last; by sunrise he was ready with a new dream, new enthusiasm, and with a new letter inviting his "brother Sam's" interest and investment. [5]
- And the fine night-bird did not return till long past sunrise, no doubt from mad revels with that crazy Hermias and other wild fellows from Syracuse. [10]
- At sunrise you must go down to the Ganges and bathe, pray, and drink some of the water. [5]
- At sunrise he must appear before the Emperor as cheerful as usual, and yet he felt as if he must himself perish miserably as his happiness had done. [10]
- Summer and winter Mastor was accustomed to leave his master's bedroom before sunrise to prepare everything that Hadrian could need when he rose from his slumbers. [10]
- Besides, as a man gets older he likes the season of Ramadan less, for he must fast from sunrise to sunset, though his work goes on; and, with broken sleep, having his meals at night, it is ten to one but he gets irritable. [11]
- I did so long for you and Sue yesterday morning--the most superb sunrise!--the most marvelous sunrise! [5]
- That one flash, like Pizarro's first sunrise over Peru, gilded the edge of infinite possibilities. [9]
- It must be late, for Hermon felt the cool breeze, which in this region rose between midnight and sunrise, on his burned face and, shivering, drew his mantle closer round him. [10]
- I tell you, it's trouble wasted, for she's dressing her hair to receive our guest from Messina; and, if she were standing where those cabbage-leaves be, she wouldn't contradict me if I were to repeat what you heard from my lips this morning at sunrise. [10]
- In penal servitude it is centuries, in the Appian Way of pleasure it is a sunrise moment. [11]
- Big as he is, I have carried him eighty-one miles between nightfall and sunrise on the scout; and I am good for fifty, day in and day out, and all the time. [5]
- When he came into the open air and mounted, it was not yet sunrise, and in that spectral early light, which is all Egypt's own, Cairo looked like some dream-city in a forgotten world. [11]
- Scraping away the incrustation, we find that we are in the Tyrol, high hills on all sides, no snow in the valley, a bright morning, and the snow-peaks are soon rosy in the sunrise. [4]
- Everything around her, in the garden and in the house, was still; for her grandfather's state had become seriously worse at sunrise, and every sound must be hushed. [10]
- In another half- hour they were under way in the gaudy light of an orange sunrise, a simmering wind from the sea lifting them up the river, and the grey-red coast of Labrador shrinking sullenly back. [11]
- Heron had come home between midnight and sunrise and had gone to bed. [10]
- Lysias, who during his absence had been pacing up and down and reflecting, met him with the question: "How long is it yet till sunrise? [10]
- The thought of herself then, with the flush of a sunrise love suddenly rising in her heart, roused a torrent of feeling now, and it required every bit of strength she had to prevent her bursting into a passion of tears. [11]
- But when they had turned him round to march to the shed where he was to be kept, till hung like a pig at sunrise, his eyes glanced about restlessly. [11]
- The wind, which had subsided after sunrise, was increasing in strength and power, and rapidly becoming a storm. [10]
- Meanwhile the nurse had seized her own cloak, flung it over the fugitive's bare shoulders, and whispered: "Be near the tent just before sunrise, but do not enter it until I call you, if you value your life. [10]
- If he had guessed the truth of what's between us, be sure, Robert, your life were not worth one hour beyond to-morrow's sunrise. [11]
- I did not grasp what this was at first, it was like the first staining of wine on the eastern sky to one who sees a sunrise. [9]
- This morning I got up at sunrise, it being the Annunciation of the Virgin, and prepared to go to mass in the chapel of the Ursulines. [11]
- I have never gone to rest before midnight, and have been on my legs again long before sunrise. [10]
- Stop your silly giggling, for laughing before sunrise causes tears at evening. [10]
- Just before sunrise Georg sprang from his couch, drew out his knapsack, and filled it with his few possessions; but this time the little book found no place with the other articles. [10]
- The German landlady gave us neat rooms and nice beds, and when I and my agent turned in, it was with the resolution to be up early and make the utmost of our first Alpine sunrise. [5]
- Before sunrise I found a bed in the inn yonder, and to my own great surprise I slept so soundly that I awoke only two hours since. [10]
- I now hoped for respite in sleep; but no, it reveled all through my head till sunrise again, a frantic and tireless nightmare. [5]
- So, was there ever a sight like that--those hills gone like a smelting-floor, the sunrise spotting it with rose and yellow, and three horses and their riders fighting what cannot be fought?--What could I do? [11]
- So ends the eventual trip which we made to the Rigi-Kulm to see an Alpine sunrise. [5]
- In order to enjoy the lovely mountains, we should be obliged to row out into the lake: we wanted them always before our eyes,--at sunrise and sunset, and in the blaze of noon. [4]
- As we had eaten nothing since sunrise, we did not waste time in cooking our supper or in eating it, either. [5]
- The weather was dull, and gray clouds were sweeping across the sky over the swift vessel, which hugged the coast, and, unless the wind shifted, would reach the narrow tongue of land pierced by the Sebennytic mouth of the Nile before sunrise. [10]
- But he shall die at sunrise ere the army goes. [11]
- I heard the desert calling; and I knew that over there, In an olive-sheltered garden where the mesquite grows, Was a woman of the sunrise, with the starshine in her hair, And a beauty that the almond-blossom blows. [11]
- I heard the desert calling, and I knew that over there In an olive-sheltered garden where the mesquite grows, Was a woman of the sunrise with the star-shine in her hair And a beauty that the almond-blossom blows. [11]
- It sounded too delightful when she said that she was always so horribly tired, and so glad to go to sleep again after she was waked, and had to go out at once just when it is coldest, in the twilight before sunrise. [10]
- To-morrow, or next day at latest; and to-night, or, better still, to-morrow morning before sunrise, I will have the youth carried there. [10]
- A little before dawn he threw himself on the bed, but he could not sleep; and he rose at sunrise, and finished his preparations for his departure to the city. [6]
- He saw the dawn break and the beginning of sunrise as he watched the Fort, growing every moment colder, while his horse trembled and whinnied softly, suffering also. [11]
- It was a damp grey morning immediately before sunrise, and at first there was scarce light enough for the combatants to see each other perfectly, but both were eager and would not delay. [11]
- After sunrise he continued his march, following the road taken by the army. [10]
- Sleep would not come to her, and so at rather more than two hours after sunrise she went to the window to close the shutters. [10]
- When her ear caught threats or reproaches levelled against her noble brother, she quickened her pace, but she could not escape her anxiety concerning what would happen at the departure after sunrise on the morrow, should the malcontents obtain supremacy. [10]
- A cold breeze came through the open door, for the dawn was at hand, and just before sunrise, the air is generally unpleasantly cool in Egypt. [10]
- It can come but once, this dream, fantasy, illusion--call it what you will: it belongs to the birth hour of a new and powerful feeling; it is the first sunrise of the heart. [11]
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