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  • (News source.) "It has long been axiomatic that red light is simply not part of the mental universe of marine fish because the sunlight's longest visible wavelengths do not penetrate below a depth of ten metres (30 feet)." ...

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • But then I thought, Well, nowthe sunlight's there, because it's summer.

    Yellow Dining Room 2010

  • But it's a sign that transparency advocates have gotten traction when even old-school government contractors are eager to adopt the gloss of operating in sunlight's full glare.

    Recovery.gov and the Transparencywashing Menace Scola, Nancy 2009

  • I note a dry yellowing in the pale birch leaves even as the sunlight's shot through them.

    The Myth of Summer 2008

  • But, look, I have no problem with the principle, you know, sunlight's the best disinfectant.

    CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2008 2008

  • Impressionism, our impression is, proceeded by instinct, its stabs of high color pursuing what the eyes of Monet and Renoir and Pissarro and Sisley found in the open air, as sunlight's spectrum flitted across the sight of haystacks, poppy-dotted fields, and rippled water.

    Nocturnes Updike, John 2008

  • But now as the sunlight's up, we expect to make some great advancements in the next hour or so.

    CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2002 2002

  • Irritably he moved out of the sunlight's direct beam, turning round so that Saskia saw him properly for the first time.

    The Demetrios Virgin Jordan, Penny 2001

  • Silent breeze lifts my hair, my spirits too the water is warm from sunlight's kiss warm flat stones and light-drenched streams

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2001

  • It was there Noro found her an hour later, sitting on the floor, immersed in the sunlight's shaft, her knees pulled up, her arms locked around the tops of her high boots.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

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