sun-stricken

In the sun-stricken morning, after a dream of her vanishing through crepuscular cracks in walls, we'll sleep like two Ecstasy overdoses.

Dig That Girl! 2010

He was sun-stricken three days ago, and violent fever and delirium set in, during the height of which he overpowered four Sikhs who were taking care of him, rushed out of doors, fell down exhausted, was carried home, and died at four in the morning, his last delirious dreams being of gambling and losing heavily.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

In the broad, sun-stricken street, none moved but himself.

Ultima Thule 2003

Those tales of a curse on the plunderer of a sun-stricken giant were absolutely correct.

Three Hearts and Three Lions Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1953

But upon the day when he heard the tinkle of silver anklets and the bleating of the goat, something, just as curiously incomprehensible, had urged him to walk to the ruined mass of stones which hid the priest's entrance and exit; and he had walked across the sun-stricken court without let or hindrance, or covering to his head, and had found on the other side a low doorway almost choked with jungle growth.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

She was as a sun-stricken mountain uplifted alone, all beautiful with ice, a desolate and lonely radiance late at evening far up beyond the comfortable world, not quite to be companioned by the stars, the doom of the mountaineer.

The Book of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

A hundred million trees -- acacia and palm, m'bina and cottonwood, thorn and mimosa; in gloom, in shine, in valley and on rise, mist-strewn and sun-stricken, all bending under the deep sweet billows of the wind.

The Pools of Silence 1907

At ten-thirty that chilly, dust-blowing morning, when the sun-stricken air glittered with eddies of motes, Joe, sitting at his desk, had the exquisite rapture of feeling the building tremble.

The Nine-Tenths James Oppenheim 1907

Great masses of white cloud filled the horizon, sun-stricken, fair, and snow-bright, solid as mountains, and like far-off mountains filled with the fascination and the call of distance.

The Pools of Silence 1907

It is a treatment in which men in the sun-stricken countries grow expert.

Wilderness Station 1903