sunflash

Updated: May 14, 2025

And yet, it stirs my heart; their regular advance, their nodding plumes, the sunflash on their bayonets and musket-barrels, the roll of their drums ascending past me, and the fife ever and anon piercing through, these things have wakened a warlike fire, peaceful though I be.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales")

And the girl fully answered to the Prince's description of her tall, sturdy, with the bust of a goddess, a real antique, a Juno of twenty, her chin somewhat prominent, her mouth and nose perfect in contour, her eyes large and full like a heifer's, and her whole face quite dazzling gilded, so to say, by a sunflash beneath her casque of heavy jet-black hair.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete

And the girl fully answered to the Prince's description of her tall, sturdy, with the bust of a goddess, a real antique, a Juno of twenty, her chin somewhat prominent, her mouth and nose perfect in contour, her eyes large and full like a heifer's, and her whole face quite dazzling gilded, so to say, by a sunflash beneath her casque of heavy jet-black hair.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

And the girl fully answered to the Prince's description of her tall, sturdy, with the bust of a goddess, a real antique, a Juno of twenty, her chin somewhat prominent, her mouth and nose perfect in contour, her eyes large and full like a heifer's, and her whole face quite dazzling gilded, so to say, by a sunflash beneath her casque of heavy jet-black hair.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3