In the sun-stricken morning, after a dream of her vanishing through crepuscular cracks in walls, we'll sleep like two Ecstasy overdoses. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was sun-stricken three days ago, and violent fever and delirium set in, during the height of which he overpowered four Sikhs who were taking care of him, rushed out of doors, fell down exhausted, was carried home, and died at four in the morning, his last delirious dreams being of gambling and losing heavily. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
In the broad, sun-stricken street, none moved but himself. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Those tales of a curse on the plunderer of a sun-stricken giant were absolutely correct. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1953)
But upon the day when he heard the tinkle of silver anklets and the bleating of the goat, something, just as curiously incomprehensible, had urged him to walk to the ruined mass of stones which hid the priest's entrance and exit; and he had walked across the sun-stricken court without let or hindrance, or covering to his head, and had found on the other side a low doorway almost choked with jungle growth. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
She was as a sun-stricken mountain uplifted alone, all beautiful with ice, a desolate and lonely radiance late at evening far up beyond the comfortable world, not quite to be companioned by the stars, the doom of the mountaineer. ❋ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1917)
A hundred million trees -- acacia and palm, m'bina and cottonwood, thorn and mimosa; in gloom, in shine, in valley and on rise, mist-strewn and sun-stricken, all bending under the deep sweet billows of the wind. ❋ Unknown (1907)
At ten-thirty that chilly, dust-blowing morning, when the sun-stricken air glittered with eddies of motes, Joe, sitting at his desk, had the exquisite rapture of feeling the building tremble. ❋ James Oppenheim (1907)
Great masses of white cloud filled the horizon, sun-stricken, fair, and snow-bright, solid as mountains, and like far-off mountains filled with the fascination and the call of distance. ❋ Unknown (1907)
It is a treatment in which men in the sun-stricken countries grow expert. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Long he stood on the brink, till his eyes dazzled from the sun-stricken foam. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
Now, Maitland had been in the Oxford movement just when æstheticism was fading out, like a lovely sun-stricken lily, while philanthropy and political economy and Mr. Henry George were coming in, like roaring lions. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Francesco told me about the terrible sun-stricken sand shores of the ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
Francesco told me about the terrible sun-stricken sand shores of the Riviera, burning in summer noon, over which the coastguard has to tramp, their perils from falling stones in storm, and the trains that come rushing from those narrow tunnels on the midnight line of march. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
How beautifully emerges that sun-stricken Cottage from the rocks, that all around it are floating in a blue vapoury light! ❋ John Wilson (1819)
Vollmann's latest doorstopper has endless moments of virtuosity and points of interest, and even if there are limits to patience-one senses that Vollmann prizes extra-long books as a means not of overwhelming the reader but because he lacks a shutoff valve-his book captures perfectly the sun-stricken, toxic landscapes of inland Southern California ... ❋ Unknown (2009)
April 23rd, 2010 at 12: 55 pm tombaker says: fuzz doesn’t seem to know very much about business, or Democrats. no wonder he’s all jazzed up about some unconstitutional, knee-jerk reactionary legislation the sun-stricken AZ legislature has conjured up. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The forest had become for Adams a living nightmare -- his one desire in life now was to win free of it, and never did it look more sinister than when, rainbow-arched and silently fuming, it lay passive, sun-stricken, the palms bursting above the mist and the great clouds rolling away in billows, as if to expose fully the wonder of those primeval leagues of tree-tops sunlit, mist-strewn, where the feathery fingers of the palms made banners of the wrack and the baobabs held fog-banks in their foliage. ❋ Unknown (1907)
