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Sunburst

noun
1.
A sudden emergence of the sun from behind clouds.
2.
A design consisting of a central disk resembling the sun and rays emanating from it.
3.
A jeweled brooch with a pattern resembling the sun.



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"Sunburst" Quotes from Famous Books



... can reason it out, the rain has ceased and the last rays of the descending sun come through an opening in the clouds in that beautiful phenomenon known as a "sunburst.'[TN-3] The white beams come diagonally through the moisture-laden air, as if in a good-night smile to the tender flowers ...
— Some Spring Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell
... Miss Sylvette de Long, in a tone not part of her role. "When the traffic policeman sticks up his mitt it's time to halt, see?" Lines not before discernible in Miss De Long's face had long since begun to creep out, smoky shadows beneath her eyes and a sunburst of fine lines showing through ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... Light! On every side it darted blinding rays of a hundred splendid hues, as if a worldful of emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds had been heaped together in one gigantic pile and transfused with a sunburst. Even Edmund was for a moment speechless with astonishment at this wildly magnificent sight. But presently he spoke, very calmly, though what he said changed our amazement ...
— A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss
... beyond the huts lately occupied by the ranchmen. The half-used haystacks caught and held one moment the fiery messenger, and then in a broad glare that reddened the flood of the Laramie for miles and lighted up the ranch like a sunburst, gave forth a huge column of blaze and smoke that could be seen far over the Black Hills of Wyoming, and all the valley seemed to spring to instant life. On every side arose the stirring war-cry of the Sioux, the swift beat of pony hoofs, the ...
— Warrior Gap - A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. • Charles King
... all this uncertainty, this anxiety, this foreboding, almost this despair, there came a sunburst which lighted up the souls of these three good people, which made their eyes sparkle and their hearts swell with thankfulness. This happiness came in the shape of ...
— Kate Bonnet - The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter • Frank R. Stockton


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