sun-smitten

His direction was westward; walking at a steady, purposeful pace, with cheery countenance and eyes that gave sign of pleasure as often as they turned to the sun-smitten clouds, he struck across

New Grub Street 2003

This gross, profane, sun-smitten, sea-rejected herald of civilisation, disowned by his fellows, disinherited of the world, defiled the spot, and his voice created an inaugural discord.

Tropic Days 2003

Ashore, the coolies on the nutmeg plantations had already brought out their mace to dry, and the baskets lay in vermilion patches on the sun-smitten green, like gouts of arterial blood.

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

The odour was in his nostrils now as he sat at the tent-door, and he did not dream that it sweated from the sun-smitten pines.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

Over the vast, sun-smitten land she wept, as her Master wept over the great city of old, and she did what she could -- no woman could have done more -- to redeem its people, and sought, year in, year out, to make the Church rise to the height of its wonderful opportunity -- in vain.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

Her charming face immediately broke into a smile; her fears seemed to fall away from her like the dissolving of a sun-smitten mist.

The Paternoster Ruby Charles Edmonds Walk

He stalks majestically along, followed by his equally majestic _bueyes_, and one wonders of what all three are thinking as they trudge along the sun-smitten roads, regardless of dust or of anything else.

Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

On the other hand, the eastern mind, which knew the terrors of a sun-smitten land and of a heat that was torture, had for a hell a fiery place of constantly burning flames.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

A network of air roots makes a grotesque circle round the spreading boughs of the banyan grove, mahogany and sandal-wood, ebony and cork, ginger-tree and cardamom, mingle their varied foliage, the translucency of sun-smitten green shading through deepening tones into the sombre tints of ilex and pine with exquisite gradation.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

A vast sun-burned waste of buffalo-grass, prickly pears, and sagebrush stretched before us to the north and east; and on the west the filmy blue contour of the Highwoods Mountains lifted like sun-smitten thunder clouds in the July swelter.

The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927