Sunbeam in example sentence
No echoes of that discord shall be heard where Father Tagus rolls, or on the banks of olive-bordered Betis; to the rocks or in deep caverns shall my plaint be told, and by a lifeless tongue in living words; or in dark valleys or on lonely shores, where neither foot of man nor sunbeam falls; or in among the poison-breathing swarms of monsters nourished by the sluggish Nile.
More example sentences with word sunbeam
The aggregates of joy and suffering thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there, on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. And you, too, were there, Sultans with long pipes reclining beneath arbours in the arms of Bayaderes; Djiaours, Turkish sabres, Greek caps; and you especially, pale landscapes of dithyrambic lands, that often show us at once palm trees and firs, tigers on the right, a lion to the left, Tartar minarets on the horizon; the whole framed by a very neat virgin forest, and with a great perpendicular sunbeam trembling in the water, where, standing out in relief like white excoriations on a steel-grey ground, swans are swimming about. 
