sky-glare

Updated: July 16, 2025

But, afraid to go back and afraid to go forward; seeing what she fled from, in the sky-glare of the lights of the little town before her, and leaving a confused horror of it everywhere behind her, as if she had escaped it in every stone of every market-place; she struck off by side ways, among which she got bewildered and lost.

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Forty men and thirty women and children were in the party, and the craft were too deeply laden for any but the smoothest sea. Two hours' quick paddling brought them to the shoal-water of Tia Kau, and at the same moment they saw to the N.W. the sky-glare of the first guiding fire.

Louis Becke - By Reef and Palm