1 He would extinguish the sun if the sun incommoded him.
2 With the first rays of day their tongues were loosened; with the sun gaiety revived.
3 As well as I could judge by the light of the sun, the day was already two-thirds gone.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 4 It was one of those rare and beautiful days in winter when England remembers that there is a sun.
5 The sun was in its zenith, and the spot chosen for the scene of the duel was exposed to its full ardor.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS 6 It was a tolerably fine winter's day, and a ray of that pale English sun which lights but does not warm came through the bars of her prison.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY 7 Immediately eight swords glittered in the rays of the setting sun, and the combat began with an animosity very natural between men twice enemies.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH 8 "You do not understand me, gentlemen," said d'Artagnan, throwing up his head, the sharp and bold lines of which were at the moment gilded by a bright ray of the sun.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS 9 He sat all night on his stool, starting at the least noise; and when the first rays of the sun penetrated into his chamber, the dawn itself appeared to him to have taken funereal tints.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX 10 It may be observed that at the very moment when, thanks to the ray of the sun, he perceived the gun barrel, he was thinking with astonishment on the forbearance of his Eminence with respect to him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 11 Now, these reflections had led him further than he intended, and the day was beginning to decline when, by the last ray of the setting sun, he thought he saw the barrel of a musket glitter from behind a hedge.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 12 Louis XIV absorbed all the smaller stars of his court in his own vast radiance; but his father, a sun PLURIBUS IMPAR, left his personal splendor to each of his favorites, his individual value to each of his courtiers.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE 13 He did not wear the uniform cloak--which was not obligatory at that epoch of less liberty but more independence--but a cerulean-blue doublet, a little faded and worn, and over this a magnificent baldric, worked in gold, which shone like water ripples in the sun.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE 14 Mingling the immensity of his dreams with the immensity of the ocean, he came, his horse going at a foot's pace, to a hill from the top of which he perceived behind a hedge, reclining on the sand and catching in its passage one of those rays of the sun so rare at this period of the year, seven men surrounded by empty bottles.