The summer sun was low behind the western hills,only its last rays still sent shafts of light up into the sky. The cloud of many-coloured dust in their wake had lost its rainbow character and was fast losing its individuality in the gathering gloom....[继续阅读]

    Looking up now,it became strangely real.The sun had sunk quite below the hills,but his last rays struck upward,touching the zenith. The fog had risen,and the town and river were steeped in its thick,gray damp; but overhead,the sun-touched smokeclouds open...[继续阅读]

    It was early June. The sun had set beyond the land,casting a premature shadow of night. But the eastern sky was very beautiful,full of pure,pure light,the light of the southern seas,next the Antarctic. There was a great massive cloud settling low,and it w...[继续阅读]

    …The sun,as it expanded in the refraction of the horizon,and over whose disk the dark umbrage of a pine was stealing,while it slowly sank behind the western hills. But his setting rays darted along the openings of the mountain…and lighted the shining cove...[继续阅读]

    Burdocks,thistles,dwarf oaks,cottonweed,chalky holes,and whitish puddles everywhere. It was all pauperized. The very bushes might have been on welfare. Across the way,the chickens were throaty-they sounded like immigrant women—and the small trees,oaks sum...[继续阅读]

    The sun,going down,suddenly caught the broken clouds. Immense piles of gold flared out of the south-east,heaped in soft,glowing yellow right up the sky. The world,till now dusk and grey,reflected the gold glow,astonished. Everywhere the trees,and the gras...[继续阅读]

    The sun was drawing to the west and the light was a rich golden,bringing out the deeper shades of green in the trees in a deep,glowing effect. It was an evening,still and calm,and very English,such as one remembers when in far-off tropical countries....[继续阅读]

    The sun had recently set,and the west heaven was hung with rosy cloud,which seemed permanent,yet slowly changed.To watch it was like looking at some grand feat of stagery from a darkened auditorium....[继续阅读]

    The alternations of night and day grew slower and slower,and so did the passage of the sun across the sky,until they seemed to stretch through centuries. At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth,a twilight only broken now and then when a comet gla...[继续阅读]

    The sun had got low,the golden light took a deeper tone,and on the mountains and the plain that stretched beneath them the masses of purple shadow glowed as richly as the places that were still exposed. The scene had an extraordinary charm. The air was al...[继续阅读]