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Definition of Sunrises
1. sunrise [n] - See also: sunrise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunrises
Literary usage of Sunrises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bits of Travel at Home by Helen Hunt Jackson (1878)
"A CALENDAR OF sunrises IN COLORADO. IF an emperor were to come to me, saying, "
O friend, empire has grown ... There is an audacity in speaking of sunrises. ..."
2. The Unitarian: A Monthly Magazine of Liberal Christianity edited by Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott (1897)
"But certainly it is to be set down as a distinct loss to the average people of
the city that to so large an extent sunrises and early mornings are dropped ..."
3. Colonial facts and fictions by Mark Kershaw (1886)
"sunrises AND SUNSETS. 1. BY the medium of mere words, it is impossible to convey
an adequate idea of the grandeur—the surprising loveliness we may say—of ..."
4. Among the Sons of Han: Notes of a Six Years' Residence in Various Parts of by Thomas Francis Hughes (1881)
"Formosa a beautiful island — Its loneliness — I am taken for a "Savage" — Snakes —
Earthquakes — Beautiful sunrises and sunsets — My happiest hour. ..."
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