1079 examples of sunrising in sentences

The pilgrim they laid in a large upper chamber, whose window opened toward the sunrising.

The sultan of Sana's wife in Arabia, because Vertomannus was fair and white, could not look off him, from sunrising to sunsetting; she could not desist; she made him one day come into her chamber, et geminae, horae spatio intuebatur, non a me anquam aciem oculorum avertebat, me observans veluti Cupidinem quendam, for two hours' space she still gazed on him.

A young man in Lucian fell in love with Venus' picture; he came every morning to her temple, and there continued all day long from sunrising to sunset, unwilling to go home at night, sitting over against the goddess's picture, he did continually look upon her, and mutter to himself

SUNRISE, ON THE PRAIRIE.

Just before sunrise they all march up to the playground, which is a heather-heath on the left side of the road, and not very far from the mountain's most extreme point.

Having had a certain number of mantles prepared for Christmas-day, he had a small white cross embroidered on each above the right shoulder, and ordered them to be distributed among the nobles on the morning of the feast when they were about to go to mass, which was celebrated some time before sunrise.

" All day, all night, he walked afar: He saw the moon rise white and still: The evening and the morning star: The sunrise burn upon the hill.

At sunrise when the matins-bell Made a cold silvery music fall Through silence of each lonely cell And over every fold and stall, St. Colum called his monks to come And follow him to where his hands Would raise the Great Cross of the Dumb Upon the Holy Island's sands....

And one caught the first grey gleam, and the first rosy flush, and the first golden splendor of the sunrise; and the other was lit with the color of the sunset long after the lowlands had faded away in the blue mist of the twilight.

I VOLUBILIS One day before sunrise we set out from Rabat for the ruins of Roman Volubilis.

Such an Adelaide brought me in sight of Fortress Monroe at sunrise, May 29, 1861.

The following morning a little before sunrise saw a party of five assembled for a hawking expedition on the downs.

Saving the lark, "that scorner of the ground," which rises and sings in the skies an hour before sunrise, the rooks are the first birds to strike up at early dawn.

About 2.30 o'clock on a May morning a rook begins the grand concert with a solo in G flat; then a cock pheasant crows, or an owl hoots; moorhens begin to stir, and gradually the woodland orchestra works up to a tremendous burst of song, such as is never heard at any hour but that of sunrise.

Before sunrise they will be far, far away, and will probably never return any more.

If those rustlers knew where I am, a dozen would be here before sunrise.

Perhaps the most interesting item about the church is the tomb of Bishop Ken, who was brought here from Longleat "at sunrising."

Here is a draught of "delicious essence," proffered by the lord of the Burmese granaries to the British embassy:"The most glorious monarch, the lord of the golden palace, the sunrising king, holds dominion over that part of the world which lies towards the rising sun; the great and powerful monarch, the King of England, rules over the whole of that portion of the world which lies towards the setting sun.

That day the wind became more favorable, and the next morning we were all roused out of our berths by sunrise, at the long wished-for cry of "land!"

About midnight, the pilot came on board, and soon after sunrise I saw the distant spires of Liverpool.

The morning sky was as yet but faintly obscured by the coal-smoke, and in the misty light of coming sunrise, all objects seemed grander than their wont.

The place was like that upper chamber facing the sunrising, and whose name was Peace, in which Bunyan's Pilgrim was lodged on the way to the celestial city.

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. (PWH); 29Mar62; R292945. BRUNER, B. H. Toward the sunrising.

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. (PWH); 29Mar62; R292945. BRUNER, B. H. Toward the sunrising.

In the churchyard, beneath the E. window, is the tomb of Bishop Ken, who, after his "uncanonical deposition," lived in retirement at Longleat, and, dying in 1711, was buried at his own request "just at sunrising in the nearest parish church within his own diocese.

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