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  • The prairie was no longer empty land in the sun-glare; it was the living tawny beast which she had fought and made beautiful by fighting; and in the village streets were shadows of her desires and the sound of her marching and the seeds of mystery and greatness.

    Main Street 2004

  • Stout brown arms were roped with curd, and wedding rings looked slippery things, and thumb-nails bordered with inveterate black, like broad beans ripe for planting, shone through a hubbub of snowy froth; while sluicing and wringing and rinsing went on over the bubbled and lathery turf; and every handy bush or stub, and every tump of wiry grass, was sheeted with white, like a ship in full sail, and shining in the sun-glare.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • And now nothing remained but to escape as quickly as possible from the ugly Wady Mismáh; with its violent, dusty wester, or sea-breeze, and its sun-glare which, reflected and reverberated by the quartz, burned the grass and made the trees resemble standing timber.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Under the cloudlet, against the sun-glare beyond, the bones stood forth in Ginny's abruptly pale face.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • But no, he hadn't set the screen to enhance the stars, and the sun-glare of early Lunar afternoon hid most of them, including the derelict worldlet.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Tannim had forgotten how hot it was in Oklahoma at the end of May, and how intense the sun-glare got by midmorning.

    Chrome Circle Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • But no, he hadn't set the screen to enhance the stars, and the sun-glare of early Lunar afternoon hid most of them, including the derelict worldlet.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Tannim had forgotten how hot it was in Oklahoma at the end of May, and how intense the sun-glare got by midmorning.

    The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Tannim had forgotten how hot it was in Oklahoma at the end of May, and how intense the sun-glare got by midmorning.

    Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • He had lighted a candle before the small golden case which contained the Hosts, but the flame was invisible in the sun-glare, and the breeze might even have blown it out.

    A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

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