They begged Tarzan to return to the
sunlight. They said that no good could come of such an expedition, for the ruins were haunted by the spirits of the dead who had once inhabited them.
As far as we could see, the miles of copper-red grass were drenched in
sunlight that was stronger and fiercer than at any other time of the day.
And while within we fought out our dark, dim contest of whispers, snatched food and drink, and gripping hands and blows, without, in the pitiless
sunlight of that terrible June, was the strange wonder, the unfamiliar routine of the Martians in the pit.
The little wisps of hair flashed again in the
sunlight. It was she!
He roared aloud, and his hanger went up above his head, flashing in the
sunlight. I had not time to be afraid, but as the blow still hung impending, leaped in a trice upon one side, and missing my foot in the soft sand, rolled headlong down the slope.
Five or six had already hatched and the grotesque caricatures which sat blinking in the
sunlight were enough to cause me to doubt my sanity.
The morning
sunlight seemed to have suddenly revealed the tragedy of her life.
(as the ship rolled) a dusty beam of
sunlight shone in, and dazzled and delighted me.
The
sunlight forced its way through a chink in the blind, and stretched across the floor in strange zigzag fashion.
The
sunlight lingered on the purple crests, and we could see him leading the way to his stockade, a burly bareheaded figure walking far in advance of a straggling cortege, and swinging regularly an ebony staff taller than himself.
The subject of this dialogue and of these concluding remarks, which were uttered in a tone of philosophical meditation, was, as the reader will have divined, no other than Barnaby, who, with his flag in hand, stood sentry in the little patch of
sunlight at the distant door, or walked to and fro outside, singing softly to himself; and keeping time to the music of some clear church bells.
She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the
sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.