Lemon-coloured light
A warming, bright but not dazzling light, and streaming through gaps in snow-clouds too.
'The sky was loosening and lemon-coloured...
Dungeon-like gloom
This gloom was no doubt accentuated by the blinding brilliance outside, and may even have been a soothing balm to...
Sun-splashy ripples
You can feel the warmth of a summer day with diaphanous wings darting over glittering ripples.
'She heard the rustling...
Dancing light, rippling reflections
Having occasionally lain in bed practically hypnotised by the dappling and dancing of light bouncing from water up to ceiling,...
Dimmit dimmity
An English south-west dialect word for dusk or twilight, hinted at in the opening 'dim...'.
'At dimmity it flew down...
Heat as strong as a curse
Leigh Fermor finds many ways to convey the unforgiving heat and light of the sun in the...
Cloud-born apotheoses
The triologism caught my eye, but I like even more the play of light bouncing from a Venetian canal up...
Light-laden drops
When did you last stop to study a light-laden drop of water, seeing in it a convex-reflected cosmos? You have,...
High-tempered light
Something bright and uplifting about this light, as long as you have protection from its blinding effects. And what a...
Light-smitten height
The only time I've seen the sun likened to a dandelion, here smiting the heights with light!
'When the sun,...
Prawn-coloured motes
Having spent his long and entire adult life ensconced in the castle walls of Gormenghast, Flay, now dismissed, finds a...
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