"Red sun" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The red sun had begun to sink down behind the dark bar of St. Mary's Rock, and the daisies in the garden to close their eyes and drop their heads in sleep, when Martin became afraid ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... of these long, clumsy carcasses of boats came a sound of muffled laughter. The two searchers crept softly up, climbed noiselessly to the deck and looked down the hatchway. The low, red sun poured in through a window below them, leaving them in shadow and making a picture in red light and black shades of ...
— Jersey Street and Jersey Lane - Urban and Suburban Sketches • H. C. Bunner
... road at last, and turned toward the east on a narrow path leading to the Aquae Salviae. The red sun was lying now on the heather. The centurion stopped the soldiers at the fountain, for the moment ...
— Quo Vadis - A Narrative of the Time of Nero • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... princely army awaited in doubt and despair while the commander hesitated and wavered in his plans. Should he risk another engagement or retreat? He decided to retreat, and it began as the Americans fired the guns for Fraser's funeral at sunset. The blood-red sun sank behind the heights in which the exultant and victorious American army lay. Heavy clouds followed, and quickly after a drenching rain the army of the British, abandoning their sick and wounded, began the retreat up the river, Retracing their steps from ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand
... Supremest Star! The moon goes down beneath the world— She lives to die! The banners of the stars are furled, The comets fly; The red sun shines, And still declines, And after him the darkness pines; But thou art e'er the same— No flickering of thy flame— No sinking down in time to rise Doth change thy splendor in the skies: For this we worship thee, afar, ...
— The Arctic Queen • Unknown
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