1 With the first rays of day their tongues were loosened; with the sun gaiety revived.
2 The pale light of the first rays of day gave to her clear eyes a strangely frightful expression.
3 A ray of light all at once broke upon the mind of the host as he was giving himself to the devil upon finding nothing.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER 4 It was a tolerably fine winter's day, and a ray of that pale English sun which lights but does not warm came through the bars of her prison.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY 5 Immediately eight swords glittered in the rays of the setting sun, and the combat began with an animosity very natural between men twice enemies.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH 6 "You do not understand me, gentlemen," said d'Artagnan, throwing up his head, the sharp and bold lines of which were at the moment gilded by a bright ray of the sun.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS 7 He sat all night on his stool, starting at the least noise; and when the first rays of the sun penetrated into his chamber, the dawn itself appeared to him to have taken funereal tints.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX 8 It may be observed that at the very moment when, thanks to the ray of the sun, he perceived the gun barrel, he was thinking with astonishment on the forbearance of his Eminence with respect to him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 9 Now, these reflections had led him further than he intended, and the day was beginning to decline when, by the last ray of the setting sun, he thought he saw the barrel of a musket glitter from behind a hedge.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 10 He drew near to the window, and placing himself so that a ray of light should fall upon the letter as he held it, he drew it from his pocket and read it again; but he had not been mistaken, the appointment was for ten o'clock.
11 The star of day, pale but nevertheless still splendid, was setting in the horizon, glorifying at once the heavens and the sea with bands of fire, and casting upon the towers and the old houses of the city a last ray of gold which made the windows sparkle like the reflection of a conflagration.
12 At the moment when he was about to retire, she was cheered with a ray of hope, for she thought he was about to speak; but his lips moved without any sound leaving his mouth, and making a powerful effort to control himself, he sent back to his heart the words that were about to escape from his lips, and went out.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY 13 Mingling the immensity of his dreams with the immensity of the ocean, he came, his horse going at a foot's pace, to a hill from the top of which he perceived behind a hedge, reclining on the sand and catching in its passage one of those rays of the sun so rare at this period of the year, seven men surrounded by empty bottles.