Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A picture made by the agency of the sun's rays; a photograph.
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Examples
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He had thought his sun-picture perfect, but this fire-picture, this young creature with the flush and warmth of ringing life, quite eclipsed it.
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He had not been wise enough to lug a camera into the country, but none the less, by a yet subtler process, a sun-picture had been recorded somewhere on his cerebral tissues.
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Frona Welse, and in the meanwhile consulted often the sun-picture he carried of her.
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Wynn wrote a homily that said ''Christianism -- if I may invent that term -- is but making a sun-picture of the love of God.''
Archive 2006-11-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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Such is the sun-picture, in the form in which we now most commonly meet it, -- for the daguerreotype, perfect and cheap as it is, and admirably adapted for miniatures, has almost disappeared from the field of landscape, still life, architecture, and _genre_ painting, to make room for the photograph.
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No matter whether this be an extravagance or an over-statement; none can dispute that we have a new and wonderful source of pleasure in the sun-picture, and especially in the solid sun-_sculptures_ of the stereograph.
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Apollo was pleased with his young rival, fixed him in position against an iron rest, (the _tree_ of the fable,) and took a _photograph_, a sun-picture, of him.
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In these homely accidents of the very instant, that cut across our romantic ideals with the sharp edge of reality, lies one of the ineffable charms of the sun-picture.
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Frona Welse, and in the meanwhile consulted often the sun-picture he carried of her.
A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896
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He had not been wise enough to lug a camera into the country, but none the less, by a yet subtler process, a sun-picture had been recorded somewhere on his cerebral tissues.
A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896
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