sun-defying

Updated: July 31, 2024

Galloping horses set its dust flying in obscuring clouds; the restless wind that blew from sunrise till sunset day in and day out from the southwest, whipped it in sudden gusts of temper, and drove it through open doors, spreading it like a sun-defying hoarfrost on the low roofs.

George W. (George Washington) Ogden - Trail's End

Here in this room she died; and soul more white Never through martyrdom of fire was led To its repose; nor can in books be read The legend of a life more benedight. There is a mountain in the distant West That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines Displays a cross of snow upon its side.

- Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 : A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History