I heard The song of every singing bird That sings beneath the sky, And with the song of lark and wren The song of mountains, moths and men And seas and rainbows vie!
In the meantime here was the blissful present with its roses and rainbows and here, for each, was the other.
The vague plans, the happy indefinite dreams, all the rainbows and roses had gone, shivered to bits like the reflection in a broken mirror.
And fallen rainbows lay with their ruins on the blossoming trees.
The sun, streaming its rays over the high pines behind her, made rainbows in the spray of the fall and cast her shadow far over the hollow at her feet.
To hear the poets of the grove, Sing forth their little lays of love; Or to survey the stars come forth, Or dancing rainbows hug the earth: These were the pastime and the play, That whiled her infant hours away.
Life has been arched with bluer skies, By curved rainbows brighter; And nature--ah!
The poet had to depict empty glories made up of outward pageantry, and as rainbows cannot be painted with grey, so Pope dipped his pen in the glowing colours which represented the things.
Over head an arc of fire spanned the zenith from which depended curtains of rainbows waving and fluttering, folding and floating out again with a rapid and incessant motion.
Suddenly it drew together in a single fold, a rope of yellow mist, then instantly shook itself out again as a curtain of rainbows fringed with flame.
To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle stroke, And bid its blendings shine afar, Like rainbows on the cloud of war, The harbingers of victory!
The fountain flings aloft its showery spray, With rainbows decked, that mock the hues of day.
When the eyes are close to the falling drops, each eye sees its appropriate rainbow; and four rainbows are perceived at the same time, particularly if the floor of the room is of a dark colour.
The inner and outer rainbows are very beautifully seen in these ascending and descending drops, when the artificial shower is held opposite to the sun.
Such flashing and blazing of gigantic rainbows and prisms!
In a pool under the translucent shadow of the overhanging trees played small fish so splendid in their varied hues that they looked like miniature rainbows darting about beneath the water.
Around the eaves are fringes Of icicles that seem To mock the summer rainbows With many-colored gleam.
A vine had tendriled its way into the crevice where the little weaver of rainbows had found board and lodging.
To quote Lieutenant Doane again: "Rainbows play around the tremendous fountain, the waters of which fall about the basin in showers of brilliants, and then rush steaming down the slopes to the river.
Even the frost on the grass upon sharp mornings seems to have a peculiar beauty, and one may trace terrestrial rainbows in all the perfection of those set in the sky.
The sheet was shortened, and the Folly obediently headed westward against the swell, flinging rainbows from her bows as she ran.
Cascade and cataract with their silvery spray weave mimic rainbows in his beams.
Why did he let death make those little graves in the churchyard, where our darlings are sleeping, who used to fill our homes with sunshine, and paint rainbows in the clouds of life's pilgrimage?
There's nothing else to do with rheumatism, but you needn't come around with any talk of putting rainbows around it or me either.
It might as well be rainbows for the crowd while I'm about it.
He picked it up and rubbed his coat sleeve down each of its three sides, and when he held it up to the light it sent a ripple of rainbows dancing across the shop.
After Georgina's letter came she resolutely put her forebodings and misgivings aside many a time, prompted by it to steer onward so steadily that hope must do as Uncle Darcy said, "make rainbows even of her tears.
When she came down again, the prism hanging from her neck by a long pink ribbon, Uncle Darcy greeted her with a new version of the Banbury Cross song: "Rings on her fingers and ribbon of rose, She shall have rainbows wherever she goes.
A little girl stood at the door, still describing rainbows from her forehead; but scarce had Ellen asked her where the grocer's was when there came up at a half run Howell Gruffydd himself, the keeper of the single shop of the place.
The beauteous covering elongates and rarefies itself from iron bands to pearl ties, from flower-chains to rainbows and milky-ways.
It is, I suppose, a consequence of our situation, and the close connexion between sea and mountain, that the rainbows here are so frequent and so peculiarly beautiful.
In mountainous and stormy regions rainbows are often seen to great advantage.
And in the end, when all broken lights have blended again with the Source Light, I'm not so sure that rainbows will seem less important than rows and rows of arc lights and clusters and clusters of incandescent globes.
In a shimmer of rainbowsand gossamer lace; No wonder the groom dropped his diamond-dust ring, Which a little elf-usher just caught with his wing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rainbows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
