Word Finder - sunrise

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The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.

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I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise.

synonyms

• crack of dawn
• dawn
• sparrow-fart
• sunup

definition

The change in color of the sky at dawn.

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Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?

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Any great awakening.

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It was the sunrise of her spirit.

Next morning at sunrise, the battle was renewed.

It was past sunrise, so she rose and flung off her bed covers.

His gaze went to the sunrise, a brilliant display of reds and oranges over the desert.

Her face shone with a glowing smile like a summer sunrise.

It was found that the method yielding the best results was to make incisions in the poppy-heads soon after sunrise, to collect the juice with the finger immediately after incision and evaporate it as speedily as possible, the colour of the opium being lighter and the percentage of morphia greater than when the juice was allowed to dry on the plant.

When a strip of yellow lit the edge of the night sky, Taran returned to his perch in a large window facing the sunrise.

Saturday should see the first sunrise for the year!

Alex and I used to set there together and watch the sunrise.

On the 10th an ultimatum was sent to Toulba Pasha, the military commandant, intimating that the bombardment would commence at sunrise on the following morning unless the batteries on the isthmus of Ras-el-Tin and the southern shore of the harbour of Alexandria were previously surrendered for the purpose of disarming.

When Wodan awoke at sunrise he saw the host of the Winnili and said, "Qui sunt isti Longibarbi ?"

Before sunrise next morning (the loth) a second "stand" like that on Arafa is made for a short time by torchlight round the mosque of Mozdalifa, but before the sun is fairly up all must be in motion in the second ifada towards Mina.

From this statement of the conditions it will be seen that the tropical zone is the most favourable for observation, and that the most favourable hour of the day at which the light can be seen must always be the earliest after sunset and the last before sunrise.

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They worshipped Re at sunrise with resin, at mid-day with myrrh and at sunset with an elaborate confection called kuphi, compounded of no fewer than sixteen ingredients, among which were honey, wine, raisins, resin, myrrh and sweet calamus.

For three hours after sunrise there was no fighting; then Henry, finding that the French would not advance, moved his army farther into the defile.

The great wealth of the Arabs is in their flocks of sheep and goats; they are led out to pasture soon after sunrise, and in the hotter months drink every second day.

The maximum usually occurs between 1 and 2.30 P.M., the minimum shortly before sunrise.

The occurrence of this process can be predicted exactly for one day, before sunrise, in October and November, and as both the worm and the fish which prey on it are appreciated by the natives as food the occasions of its appearance are of great importance to them.

Some nations, as the ancient Chaldeans and the modern Greeks, have chosen sunrise for the commencement of the day; others, again, as the Italians and Bohemians, suppose it to commence at sunset.

In the early ages of Rome, and even down to the middle of the 5th century after the foundation of the city, no other divisions of the day were known than sunrise, sunset, and midday, which was marked by the arrival of the sun between the Rostra and a place called Graecostasis, where ambassadors from Greece and other countries used to stand.

The ceremony of the first day took place in Rome itself, in the house of the magister or his deputy, or on the Palatine in the temple of the emperors, where at sunrise fruits and incense were offered to the goddess.

In criminal law the day formerly commenced at sunrise and extended to sunset, but by the Larceny Act 1861 the day is that period between six in the morning and nine in the evening.

Night is that part of the natural day of twenty-four hours during which the sun is below the horizon, the dark part of the day from sunset to sunrise.

The open part of the horseshoe exactly faces the sunrise at the summer solstice.

Wodan promised to give victory to those whom he should see in front of him at sunrise.

It is collected before sunrise, by shaking the grains of manna on to linen cloths spread out beneath the trees, or by dipping the small branches in hot water and evaporating the solution thus obtained.

We know that the rites at Mozdalifa were originally connected with a holy hill bearing the name of the god Quzah (the Edomite Koze) whose bow is the rainbow, and there is reason to think that the ifadas from Arafa and Quzah, which were not made as now after sunset and before sunrise, but when the sun rested on the tops of the mountains, were ceremonies of farewell and salutation to the sun-god.

A seizure could be made only between sunrise and sunset.

Under it the state bought liquors, graded them in accordance with a chemical analysis, and sold them to consumers in packages of not less than one half-pint; the dispensaries were open from sunrise to sunset, no sales were made to minors or drunkards, and no liquor was drunk on the premises; there was a state dispensary commissioner and a state board of control; and the profits were divided between the state, the counties and the municipalities, the share of the state being devoted to educational purposes.

Cassie leaned forward on the wagon seat, squinting anxiously into the incandescent sunrise.

Witnessing day to day life on the famous ghats from a boat at sunrise is among the highlights of any trip to India.

They form a horseshoe open to the Summer Solstice sunrise, a gateway to the Otherworld for the Sun God under whatever name.

These sunrise pictures below are of my car, overlooking the lough, at whitehead.

The avenue of approach is aligned to the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset and the Station Stones mark the midwinter sunrise and midsummer sunset.

Preparing for a winter view of this mountain, Ian Evans encountered a magnificent sunrise.

It was a strawberry sunrise, topped with whipped cream clouds, a perfect sort of day until Dean was awake enough to remember Martha Boyd, lord knows where, escaping the law in a stolen twenty-year-old Buick, with a ditzy ex-junkie for a chauffeur.

Alex, I'm sorry I missed the sunrise.

The sounds of the ocean and the sea breeze lulled her to sleep last night and gently drew her awake before sunrise.

He pretends to drown, sleeps on the beach for a few hours, and about dawn pedals off into the sunrise.

Betty had murmured something about jogging, kissed him on the nose, wiggled on her meager duds and left the tent, with the flap open just enough to admit the predawn chill and a red glow that would soon be sunrise.

The sound, which has been heard by modern travellers, is generally attributed to the passage of the air through the pores of the stone, chiefly due to the change of temperature at sunrise.

There is a small hotel on the summit for the convenience of tourists, especially of those anxious to witness sunrise.

By the Lights on Vehicles Act 1907, all vehicles on highways in England and Wales must display to the front a white light during the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise.

Lauds is proper to sunrise, but is mostly grouped with matins.

And when they had been served with wines and spices they went away leaving only the candidate, the esquires, " the priest, the chandler and the watch," who kept the vigil of arms until sunrise, the candidate passing the night " bestowing himself in orisons and prayers."

The principal meals are breakfast, about an hour after sunrise; dinner, or the mid-day meal, at noon; and supper, which is the chief meal of the day, a little after sunset.

Sunset brought on the Jewish sabbath, but the next evening the women brought spices to anoint the body, and at sunrise on the third day they arrived at the tomb, and saw that the stone was rolled away.

Enjoy a dusk cruise, a dawn chorus walk or watch the sunrise from a canoe.

Note the aircraft contrail at the top of the picture which has also taken on the color of the sunrise.

Sunrise Ceremony A night filled with activities for all of the sections, followed by the biggest sleepover Cambridge has ever seen.