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Example sentences for "westering"

Lexicographically close words:
wesna; west; westbound; weste; wester; westerlies; westerly; westermost; western; westernmost
  1. Larkspurs in the botany are blue, but if you were to slip rein to the stub of some black sage and set about proving it you would be still at it by the hour when the white gilias set their pale disks to the westering sun.

  2. Whitney cries it from his vantage tower; it flashes from Oppapago to the front of Williamson; LeConte speeds it to the westering peaks.

  3. The westering sun was low on the horizon.

  4. XIX Over the way, on the jimcrack of the stately mansion opposite, the westering sun had put an aigrette of gold.

  5. And scarcely a mile distant, bright in the westering sunlight, shone the red stallion, moving slowly.

  6. It was afternoon when all was ready for this race, and the sage was bright gray in the westering sun.

  7. On a brilliant summer day the sun was westering behind the Castle of Ile, a small fortress raised between the two arms of the Meuse at a considerable distance from Domremy.

  8. Just as the sun was tinting with its westering rays the placid waters of the Loire, the standard of Joan was seen floating from the summit of the church, and the cry of the vanquishers echoed and re-echoed a thousand times: "Good luck!

  9. All the wildness and the savagery of Altar's secret fane of the desert god lay burning and glistening with wetness in the westering sun.

  10. Thirty minutes' exhaustive effort brought them to the approach of a high-roofed cavern into which the westering sun laid a broad carpet of light.

  11. The flaming wheel of the westering sun was drawing down to the farther ridge as we came in sight of the tree-embowered homestead, with a soft blue smoke-reek or two curling up into the still air.

  12. The undulation of the veldt, green and gold in the westering sun, stretching away on either side, was as if deserted by man.

  13. The weather had turned warm and misty; one of those sudden sea-coast changes had greyed the blue in the sky, spreading a fine haze over land and water, effacing the crisp sparkle of the sea, dulling the westering sun.

  14. The terrace was aflood with the golden glow of the westering sun--the season so far advanced that there was no discomfort in its warmth.

  15. 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.

  16. So they sat them down while the sun was westering in the March afternoon, and she said: 'Tell me first what tidings have been in the Dale.

  17. The westering sun has turned all the hills above Castellammare into purple clouds.

  18. Presently the long rays of the westering sun crept round the edge of some projecting eaves and, slanting in suddenly through the window, rested upon the quiet figure in the chair.

  19. The westering sun was getting low along the rim of the crater and he worked fast with the knowledge that night would soon be upon them.

  20. More searchings followed without results, until the sun was westering well down the sky.

  21. The sun was westering well down the sky when at last we crowded into a creaking buckboard for a ten-mile drive.

  22. Westering down the sky sank the crescent new moon, with blazing Jupiter in her train.

  23. The westering sun, shining over the Mayfield hills, turned the dust to golden fog.

  24. Its walls, plastered with red clay, were yet more ruddy for a cast of the westering sun.

  25. The light upon the water was aslant now from a westering sun, and glittering on the snowy breasts of a cluster of swans drifting, dreaming perhaps, on the current.

  26. Then he came forth and eyed the westering sun.

  27. She stood just where the westering sun touched her with a golden glow.

  28. A round pearl-pale moon swung in the east, level with the westering sun; as he sank she rose, till the twilight suddenly wrapped the air in a soft blue that was half a shadow, half a lighting.

  29. A shadow had fallen across the window, barring the flow of the westering light, and towards it Annie was staring.

  30. One little hand stole out and drew aside the collar of the cloak; and she turned her head and saw the roofs and chimneys shining red in the westering sun.

  31. Against the evening sky I saw the spires of Johnstown, stained crimson in the westering sun which was going down red as a cherry.

  32. It was evening, and the westering sun lolled heavily upon the skyline, cradled in a cauldron of fiery cloud rising to bear it upon its long night journey.

  33. The westering sun was shining full upon him.

  34. He rode toward the westering sun, keeping to the ridge they had ascended, until once more he came out upon a promontory.

  35. To Helen, one way appeared as wild and rough as another, and all was yellow, green, and black under the westering sun.

  36. He came out of the forest shadow with the westering sunlight upon his face, riding slowly.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "westering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.