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And with the question a great light seemed to fill the place, and I saw my duty sun-clear, as Saul saw his on the way to Damascus.
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Still it was spoken in a very preoccupied way that might have been provoking, -- that would depend on the mood of the person addressed; and that mood, as we know, was not sun-clear or marble-smooth.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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As the sun-clear days of maidenhood melted imperceptibly into summer glow and winter spaces, the memory of Wilfred's face and voice sometimes surprised her at unexpected turns of solitary musings.
Lahoma 1913
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This self-giving nature of God is everywhere taken for granted -- it is just _that_ which he feels that Christ has once for all made sun-clear, and it is because He is essentially self-giving that God pours out His life and love upon us as He does His sunshine upon the grass and flowers.
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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And with the question a great light seemed to fill the place, and I saw my duty sun-clear, as Saul saw his on the way to
The Iron Heel Jack London 1896
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And it would be out of place to attempt any reply to this argument, the reply being in each case as sun-clear as the argument itself.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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Perhaps not, O reader; perhaps a man advancing "in circuits," the only way he has; spirally, face now to east, now to west, with his own reasonable private aim sun-clear to himself all the while.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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To himself the internal meaning was sun-clear; but the material with which he was to clothe it in utterance was not there.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885
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Friedrich Wilhelm's aim, in this as in other emergencies, was sun-clear to himself, but for most part dim to everybody else.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Mr. Cranley, "with his own substantial private purpose sun-clear before him" (as Mr. Carlyle would have said, in apologizing for some more celebrated villain), had enticed Margaret from school.
The Mark Of Cain Andrew Lang 1878
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