No doubt his eyes had been as steady and bright and his whole face as truthful when he had made love to Lady Fan at sunset on the Acropolis.
The light of winter sunset was streaming over her, whose life had been a winter day.
Before sunset the temporary batteries of the enemy were all silenced, and every attempt to cross from Plattsburgh to the American works was repelled.
They arrived about sunset at the city of Albany, and took lodgings at Cruttenden's boarding-house, on an eminence near the Capitol or State-house.
There wasn't no red sunset this time," the man answered, with a grim smile.
I was about convinced that the red sunset had gone to my head--that I was following something that existed only in my brain.
But when the red sunset is on the dunes there's nothing I have ever seen so wild and passionate and beautiful.
Brinker sees it--Ever seen the sunset color on Sangre de Cristo?
At sunset it takes the color--not always, not often, in fact, perhaps a dozen times a year.
Sunset blazed crimson at the western end of every cross-street.
In his eyes she read her answer, and thrilled to it, closer in his arms; and rested so, her cheek against his, gazing at the sunset out of dreamy eyes.
The small dining-room was flooded with sunset light; rosy bars of it lay across cloth and fruit and flowers, and striped the wall and ceiling.
The sunset on which we gaze with melancholy eyes is a sunrise on the other side of the world, and the vanishing days can take from us nothing that may not be restored by some day yet unborn.
Parson Page used to say that every sunrise and moonrise and sunset was a message from heaven sayin' 'Look up!
They emerged from the wood, the bare moor spread on all sides before them, and lo, the sunset was countless miles away!
The fir-trees and bars of sunset made a glorious gate before them.
The square is wonderfully impressive at sunset and in the moonlight.
But it is a pity that a dreadful dampness spoils this pleasant scene of an evening; even before sunset such a fog rises over the road that one seems to be enveloped in thick, dark smoke.
It's quite cool," said Colonel Zane; "but I want you to see the sunset in the valley.
He would meet Jonathan there at sunset to-day, Helen decided.
Near sunset of a long day Jonathan strolled down the sandy, well-trodden path toward Metzar's inn.
After telling Jonathan to meet him at sunseton the following day at a point five miles up the river, he reported to the colonel that Legget with his band had left their retreat, moving southward, apparently on a marauding expedition.
When he took her words literally, and said the sunsetwas fine, she felt guilty of deceitfulness.
Soon the sunset had faded, and the moon had it all her own way except for a broad expanse of sea-green sky in the west, deepening through violet to a narrow streak of copper on the horizon.
Everywhere jutting rocks and sharp crevices broke the soft mantle of the blueberry thickets; and on the southerly slope, where sunset and moonrise mingled with intricate shadows, everything looked ghostlike and unreal.
He might easily have passed her, for it was nearly dark from the yew-tree and the row of elms that shut out, the western sky, where the sunset was just dying away.
At sunset the vapours over the marshes burn like a furnace, and the cumulus clouds sometimes glow underneath with the dusky fire of a Red Underwing moth.
He spent the sunset hours quietly with the young people, and, before they bade each other good-night, he read with them again the passage that had so impressed them in the morning.
But he is boisterously happy about it, and at sunset on this Easter Sunday evening they anchor off a populous settlement just round a bend of the river.
The remainder of the day till sunset was one unvarying round of dulness.
The inhabitants, old and young, usually assembled after sunset in front of their houses, for the purpose of amusing themselves in a variety of ways.
An hour or more beforesunset we reached the top of the house above referred to.
The first day's march was about ten miles--we encamped about sunsetafter a very hard day's work.
By the Lights on Vehicles Act 1907, all vehicles on highways in England and Wales must display to the front a white light during the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise.
Consequently, some of the almanacs have adopted the European practice of showing the time of sunrise, in hours and minutes, from midnight; and some of them add the time of sunset from noon.
A whole day is devoted to the combat, and even the charms of the siesta are forgotten, and the Indian often returns to his home after sunset a wretched and a ruined man.
In the Philippines at sunset during the rains their presence becomes intolerable.
Before sunset he returned to Hurstley in a postchaise with the Oxford physician, whom he had furnished with an able and accurate diagnosis of the case.
His dream was that Imogene should go forth and conquer the world, and that in the sunset of life he should find a refuge in some corner of her palace.
Once, as the sunsetdyed the west with the richness of gold and purple and orange and lake, they were walking their horses along a hill lane between pines and cedars.
But, when the steamer was under way, crawling slowly down the world by the same route he had taken, the days between quick sunrise and sudden sunset seemed interminable.
And, when at last Puerto Frio showed across the purple water with a glow of brief sunset behind the brown shoulder of San Francisco, she stood by the rail, almost holding her breath in suspense, while the anchor chains ran out.
Far off he stands In sunset land, and on his shoulder bears The pillar'd mountain-mass whose base is earth, Whose top is heaven, and its ponderous load Too great for any grasp.
Longest of all, the task to come aland Where haven there is none, when sunset fades In night.
But a still more curious dance was one performed a few nights ago by a party of natives which had left the ship after sunset and landed abreast of the anchorage.
Illustration: Sunset on Crater Lake, north of Spray Park, with the Mountain in distance.
But the fires upon the crest burned on, deepening from gold to burnished copper, a colossal beacon flaming high against the sunset purple of the eastern skies.
As sunset approached, we watched the western clouds building range upon range of golden mountains above the black, Alp-like crags of the Olympics.
In Sunset Magazine for November, 1895, Mr. Glascock has told the story of their struggle and reward.
