Alpenglow

The sun was sliding toward the horizon, throwing beautiful but alarming alpenglow on the mountains and valleys below. ❋ Michael J. Ybarra (2011)

Amber mists, a cloaked old man with a staff, a cluster of flamingos standing in the alpenglow—a vision so steeped in kitsch you could die just by buying the postcard. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

Peach-colored alpenglow illuminated the great peaks, giving hint of the sun's impending presence. ❋ Gier, Scott (2005)

As the alpenglow died and darkness tightened, they settled by their haul bags on the dirt beneath an overhang. ❋ Jeff Long (2005)

There were probably four more hours before sunset, and then another hour of alpenglow after that. ❋ Jeff Long (2005)

There are two stages to alpenglow, a first surge that waxes and wanes, fooling amateur photographers into stowing away their cameras, and then a sudden short-lived second rush of colors. ❋ Jeff Long (2005)

The eastern slopes of Erebus were violet at first, and then they were bathe in rosy pink alpenglow and, between two and three o'clock, when the sun rose above WindVane Hill, they became sunflower yellow. ❋ Wheeler, Sarah (1996)

The volcano did not shine or sparkle in the false alpenglow. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1974)

The lower ranges were forested, as was the valley between, and there was a redmauve alpenglow on the great peak that rose from the head of the valley. ❋ Piper, H. Beam (1963)

The lower ranges were forested, as was the valley between, and there was a red-mauve alpenglow on the great peak that rose from the head of the valley. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)

When those glossy domes swim into the alpenglow, wet after rain, you conceive how long and imperturbable are the purposes of God. ❋ Unknown (1903)

We had heard the heavy detonation of the slide about the hour of the alpenglow, a pale rosy interval in a darkling air, and judged he must have come from hunting to the ruined cliff and paced the night out before it, crying a very human woe. ❋ Unknown (1903)

If she had said the alpenglow had fathered him, he would not have been more amazed. ❋ Unknown (1902)

We left the enchanting valley that morning, the trills of the white-crowns ringing in the alpenglow like a sad farewell, as if they felt that we should never meet again. ❋ Unknown (1896)

There was shore ice, however, even in the open bends, along which we were able to creep; and, though the ice-jams gave considerable trouble, yet we did very well the first day and camped at dark with eighteen or nineteen miles to our credit, in the presence of a great, red, smoky sunset and a glorious alpenglow on a distant snow mountain. ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)

I shall see those lights behind my eyelids to-night, as I saw the sunset light on Stonehenge; the moon touching the Giralda of Seville; and my first alpenglow. ❋ Unknown (1889)