Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet
rays moved on in stacks.
The sun, just bursting forth from behind a cloud that had concealed it, was shining, with
rays still half broken by the clouds, over the roofs of the street opposite, on the dew-besprinkled dust of the road, on the walls of the houses, on the windows, the fence, and on Pierre's horses standing before the hut.
Half way up the steep was a yawning cave, black as night beyond the point where the rainbow
rays of the colored suns reached into it.
Every morning she placed a large basin full of water on her window-sill, and as soon as the sun's
rays fell on the water the Rainbow appeared as clearly as it had ever done in the fountain.
"Because we should have seen our continents and seas in a new light-- the first resplendent under the solar
rays, the latter cloudy as represented on some maps of the world.
"They were tears of pity, young lady, that heaven blesses and instead of falling from my eyes like the everyday tears that we all of us shed, they turned into two
rays of light which slanted nearer and nearer to the man standing at the altar with you, till they touched his breast.
We are to secure all "loose objects"; hood up our Fleury
Rays; and "on no account to attempt to clear snow from our conning-towers till the weather abates." Under-powered craft, we are told, can ascend to the limit of their lift, mail-packets to look out for them accordingly; the lower lanes westward are pitting very badly, "with frequent blow-outs, vortices, laterals, etc."
The solar
rays shone through the watery mass easily, and dissipated all colour, and I clearly distinguished objects at a distance of a hundred and fifty yards.
He wore but a single article of clothing or adornment, a small collar of gold from which depended upon his chest a great ornament as large as a dinner plate set solid with huge diamonds, except for the exact center which was occupied by a strange stone, an inch in diameter, that scintillated nine different and distinct
rays; the seven colors of our earthly prism and two beautiful
rays which, to me, were new and nameless.
Away - away - 'mid seas of
rays that roll Empyrean splendor o'er th' unchained soul - The soul that scarce (the billows are so dense) Can struggle to its destin'd eminence - To distant spheres, from time to time, she rode, And late to ours, the favour'd one of God - But, now, the ruler of an anchor'd realm, She throws aside the sceptre - leaves the helm, And, amid incense and high spiritual hymns, Laves in quadruple light her angel limbs.
Ray was a quiet, rather nervous man of perhaps fifty with a brown beard and shoulders rounded by too much and too hard labor.
The Story Girl and Peter were there, of course, and Sara
Ray's mother had allowed her to come up on condition that she should be home by eight sharp.