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How can I make you realize the glorious, bountiful, sun-steeped tropics under our cold grey skies, and amidst our pale, monotonous, lustreless greens?
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Through these we rode up shallow valleys to a crest; and then by like valleys down the far side, whence we issued abruptly, from dark, tossed stone-heaps into the sun-steeped wideness of a plain.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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On the under-sides of the arches moved the slow, water-illumined shadows, till the sun-steeped stone glowed Eke living gold.
Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967
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But, oh, to touch it for a moment, to sit anywhere on the summer mould, to pull down the sun-quivering, sun-steeped branches about me, to scent the fresh grass as it springs to the light!
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Through the still, mild air, across the sun-steeped gardens, came the voices of the children --
Cecilia de Noël Lanoe Falconer
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He used to come to Madrid for the winter to escape the damp of England, and revelled in the warmth and freshness of that sun-steeped air.
Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin
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"Mr. Frazer writes powerfully and well, and seems to have an intimate acquaintance with the sun-steeped land, and the strange beings who people it."
Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen
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There is an effervescence of life in the clear air, and the sun-steeped walls of stone are resonant with the cheerful noise of young voices.
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Fair land (she sang), O sun-steeped realm of mine,
Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Ada Langworthy Collier
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The throstle's call, the calm of sun-steeped days,
The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner
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