morning-light

The sting of other griefs might be blunted by time; and even mine yielded sometimes during the day, to the pleasure inspired by the imagination or the senses; but I never look first upon the morning-light but with my fingers pressed tight on my bursting heart, and my soul deluged with the interminable flood of hopeless misery.

The Last Man 2003

Huneefa stirred in her sleep, and Hurree Babu jumped nervously to the copper incense-burner, all black and discoloured in morning-light, rubbed

Kim 2003

Nothing grew there but a few grasses and weeds at its edge, and one old stump of a tree with only two bent branches left: it looked almost like the figure of some gnarled old man, standing there, blinking in the morning-light.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

By morning-light the roads that converged upon the Gate of Mordor could now be clearly seen, pale and dusty; one winding back northwards; another dwindling eastwards into the mists that clung about the feet of Ered Lithui; and a third that ran towards him.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

The road of common duty was just the way appointed for another meeting with his Lord, for in the morning-light there came a voice across the waters: "Children, have ye any meat?"

My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett

The decree of the Wielder when morning-light came and

Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall

And thou at the midnight weapon thy knights, that we in the morning-light may come forth-right, before Meneve—-there thou shalt fight; ere thou thence depart, slaughter thou shalt make; for thou shalt both slay there, Pascent and Gillomar, and many thousands of the men that are with them hither come.

Roman de Brut. English Layamon

The great globe swings round out of the dark into the sun; there is always morning somewhere; and for ever in this shifting region of the morning-light the good Altegans sees the little ones afoot—shining companies and groups, couples and bright solitary figures; for they all seem to have a soft heavenly light about them.

III. Children’s Reading (I) 1920

The great globe swings round out of the dark into the sun; there is always morning somewhere; and for ever in this shifting region of the morning-light the good Altegans sees the little ones afoot --- shining companies and groups, couples and bright solitary figures; for they all seem to have a soft heavenly light about them.

On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The great globe swings round out of the dark into the sun; there is always morning somewhere; and for ever in this shifting region of the morning-light the good Altegans sees the little ones afoot -- shining companies and groups, couples, and bright solitary figures; for they all seem to have a soft heavenly light about them!

From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903