The sun of Africa has passed over the heavens, but has not dared with one of his fierce rays to profane the sacred relics which lie out before him.
Its pale rays feebly searched the room and discovered at the other end of it Juba, who had silently opened the door, and sat down near it, while his brother was employed upon his devotions.
Her soul is pure as rays of morning, Her eyes as blue as thine own sky, The same rich tints thy crown adorning Among her golden tresses lie.
On silver stool, high mounted, Sat Angantyr, the old; His helm shot rays uncounted, His corselet was of gold.
As swift from branch to branch its soft rays glide!
In the shadow the rays of the spectrum vibrate with a different speed.
There is a landscape, purchased in 1900, a stone bridge, lighted byrays darting through heavy storm clouds.
Claude Monet has added black and white] and leave the individual rays of each of these colours to blend at a certain distance, so as to act like sunlight upon the eye of the beholder.
Monet, it must not be forgotten, had two years' military service in Morocco; Sorolla has always lived, saturated himself in the rays of a hot sun and painted beneath the hard blue dome of Spanish skies.
You must know that the sun-rays can be very disturbing in July.
The capstone, or headstone, was also perfectly clear, but it had a blood-red spot in the center which shone and which shed rays of light like streaks of blood down through all the tower.
I gave way to the impression that the occasion and circumstances had made on my mind and spoke of the heavenly light, which I still supposed was natural; but she afterward informed me that it was more than sunshine--rays of glory.
I held the gems full in the rays of the lamp, and Billings paused, holding a hungry gaze over his shoulder.
And the skin about his eyes was painted white with red streaks shooting around like rays of light.
Shaking his head, he lifted the garment again and held it out of the direct rays of the shaded lamp.
And Celia turned with a cry and stood swaying there in the rays of the candle.
Ailsa slept fitfully, but the far challenge and the halting of the waggon usually awoke her in darkness feebly lit by the rays of a candle-set lantern, swung up inquiringly by the corporal of some guard.
Out flashed the rays of the beacon-light, and far off on the tempestuous waves Ida saw what seemed to be two men in a boat with a load of sheep.
There was no more fodder for our cattle, our water-casks were empty, and the burning rays of the sun scorched us with pitiless and overpowering heat.
Ida lighted her beacon of warning to ships at sea, and rejoiced as she saw its glowingrays flash out over the turbulent waters.
Ida hastily raised the curtain, to see how heavily it was storming, and she gave an exclamation of surprise; then ran up the spiral stairway to the tower, where in the rays of the steady light she could see more clearly.
It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burning rays of the sun.
At an early hour the heavens were overspread with a cloud which continued to hide the scorching rays of the sun till towards evening, when it moved away.
The sun was already high in the sky, throwing its bright rays down to comfort heart and body.
Its rays fell on the white snow, and the forest, which the night before had looked so bleak and livid, was now dazzling with a radiancy that blinded the eyes.
That was so; the barge, towed by the horses, glided over the soft waters which lapped gently against the keel; on either side were trees and behind us fell the oblique rays from the setting sun.
A star of sixteen rays is the crest of the Innholders' Company.
It was brilliantly light when we awoke, for the rays of the just-risen sun were striking strongly into the cave through its entrance-way; and much light came also through a crevice higher up, and through a great hole in the vastly high roof.
When we finished, the sun was still low in the east; and the bright rays struck full upon the statue of Chac-Mool, on the great stone altar, and into the depths of the niche that had been hollowed behind it in the face of the cliff.
At times they are simple diffused gleams or luminous patches; at others, quiveringrays of pure white which run across the sky, starting from the horizon as if an invisible pencil were being drawn over the celestial vault.
The sky then looks like a cupola of fire: blue, green, red, yellow and white vibrate in the palpitating rays of the aurora.
France is as far north as Labrador; but there is no similarity whatever in climatic conditions, as there should be, were climate dependent only on the heating of the local atmosphere by the rays of the sun.
In this power or person, natural laws are rooted, and from it they proceed, as rays of light from the sun.
The houses are sometimes shaded with Venetian blinds, and afford to the inhabitants a cool and pleasant retreat, from the scorching rays of the sun.
The last raysof an October sun were decking the broad piazza of the house with a golden glow.
The rays of the westering sun made nothing of the fabric of Joan's white parasol, their heat penetrating its sheer shield as though it were glass.
Little of it was visible, however, outside the radius of illumination cast by an electric dome which, depending from the middle of the ceiling, focussed its raysupon a small round dining-table of mahogany.
It would be time for the Bertha and Louise to show directly, and so Sam placed the red caps over the lamps of two of the electrics and sat where he could throw the rays through the break in the roof.
Following close behind, Sam saw the lads directing the rays of their electrics upon a series of bunks standing against the west wall.
Our next voyage in the Romulus was unpropitious from the start.
The long, cool barrack-rooms were swept by the fresh breezes.
The lower classes of Cypriotes wear large fig or cabbage-leaves upon their heads to protect them from the rays of the sun.
We can already perceive the brightest rays of Aurora reflected in the sparkling eyes around us," exclaimed M.
A truce with your gallantry, gentlemen," replied madame de Mirepoix, "at my age I can only believe myself capable of reflecting the last rays of the setting sun.
It consisted of a vast quantity of inflammable matter in the air, which seemed to ascend from all parts of the horizon, and then to pour itself towards the earth, in immense fiery rays and balls.
The movement of these shadows and reflected lights was exactly that of the rays of an Aurora Borealis, minus colour.
But in the dreary waste of Arabia, a boundless level of sand is intersected by sharp and naked mountains; and the face of the desert, without shade or shelter, is scorched by the direct and intense rays of a tropical sun.
The ground here, shielded from the direct rays of the sun, felt almost cool by contrast.
The thinnest of the clothing protected her slight body from the direct rays of the sun.
Near him, on the ground, was the humming shape of a cancellation projector, sending out a fan-shaped curtain of vibration that absorbed all the light rays falling upon it.
It has an exceedingly gaudy plumage, that glistens in metallic lustre as the rays of light strike upon its various-coloured feathers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
