Rays

Examples

• For example, if the sun's rays fall upon silver chloride, a chemical action immediately begins, and as a result we have two separate substances, chlorine and silver. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I will endure thy sun's scorching rays, O God of Mercy! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In this order, the two come up out of Tom-all-Alone's into the broad rays of the sunlight and the purer air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Under the clear rays of the Arizona moon lay Powell, his body fairly bristling with the hostile arrows of the braves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• A solution of nitrate of silver, then called the acid of silver, was known to be peculiarly susceptible to the action of those rays. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• And the rays were hastening in in thin lines of light, to return to the strengthened moon, that shook upon the water in triumphant reassumption. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They are invisible rays transmitted through the air in a manner similar to light. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When evening came on, and the last rays of the setting sun penetrated through the side windows, this hall looked like a veritable Faust laboratory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The sun was rising, and his first rays struck into the room, as she came back, and put her lips to his. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Nor does the thin atmosphere refract the sun's rays or diffuse its light as upon Earth. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Refraction is the source of many illusions; bent rays of light make objects appear where they really are not. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In the direct rays of the sun, two or three minutes are sufficient to produce the full effect. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• On his flinging open the door the rays of the candle fell upon a woman closely wrapped up, who at once came forward. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• By this time the moon had stolen round to the terrace, and soft, mysterious rays of light were slanting already across the lower end of the room. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The dispersion of a ray of white light separates it into its component color rays. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This change in the direction of the light rays is called refraction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Away at the landing stage, tiniest points of coloured rays were stringing themselves in the dusk. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• K is the cathode plate, formed of a concave disk of aluminum, which focuses the rays at a point near the center of the bulb. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I heard one of your kind an hour ago, singing high over the wood: but its song had no music for me, any more than the rising sun had rays. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Where the shadow fell the paper remained white, while the surrounding exposed parts darkened under the sun’s rays. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There were rays of candlelight from one of them, and there was the sound of a footstep going about. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The lantern was opened to give more light, and it's rays directed upon the stone. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We can be certain, for example, that the essential nature of heat does not consist in light and brightn ess, since it is present in boiling water and absent in the moon's rays. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I wrung the brine from my hair; and the rays of the risen sun soon visited me with genial warmth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• As the summer heat increased these were covered by sheds to break the rays of the sun. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• To aid the effect, a reflector was employed, and when the rays were directed to the clouds, they had the appearance of a huge comet, the reflector being the nucleus. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The _Spectroscope_ is an instrument by which the colours of the solar rays are separated and viewed, as well as those of other incandescent bodies. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The turnpike lamp was a blur, quite out of the lamp's usual place apparently, and its rays looked solid substance on the fog. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But soon surgery and medicine took advantage of the unknown rays for practical purposes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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