Sentence examples for first rays of day from inspiring English sources

When swollen to full, I jump into the airship along with captain and crew, and off we sail, just as the first rays of day shatter the horizon.

One building on the central plaza has nooks in which the mummies of important citizens were placed, and it is onto these nooks that the first rays of dawn fall each day.

By car, foot or bicycle, pilgrims traverse this mountain for sunrise, sunset and everything in between, often setting out from west and south Maui at 3 a.m. to catch the first rays of the day.

Further down, a solitary male lion was warming itself in the first rays of the day in a dried-up creek, not particularly bothered as we executed several low swoops overhead before flying at tree-top level, eye to eye with an eagle sitting in its nest.

It actually begins at the first ray of dawn, or, as it says in the Koran, "when the white thread of day becomes distinct from the blackness of night".

For decades now people in Bulgaria gather on the Black Sea coast to meet the first rays of the sun on the first day of July.

As the first rays of sun appear, the edge of one of the megaliths is illuminated.

Allowing yourself the time to catch the first rays of the early spring sun.

I took off my shirt and felt the first rays of the sun on my back.

When that first ray of sunshine on a hot day hits me, I feel as if I'm under siege – like I'm being attacked and smothered by a thick duvet.

I am so proud tonight that the great state of Alabama gave the whole country a needed renewal of hope and the first ray of light of a rising sun and a coming new day.