"Sunup" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... labored arduously at anything, nevertheless he had followed his calling faithfully, and the peculiar exigencies of that calling had made of him a light and fitful sleeper. He had so often used the earth as a mattress and his saddle as a pillow, that sunup invariably roused him, and as a consequence he liked to tell people that he could do with less sleep than any man in Texas. That was, in fact, ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... robin rhyme, So tenderly, Dear, I love you. In happiness I go with you Now in sunshine to follow on And into dark when you are gone. Then back again from misty night And at the dawn in coming light. At sunup when the Japs are caught You will come when the battle's fought. And then glad shouts the whole day long, With ringing ...
— Clear Crystals • Clara M. Beede
... reported their landing at the Golden Cove an hour before sunup. Three war-galleys, which means ...
— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen
... to say a few words to ye alone, Mr. Hamlin," she began, taking an unoffered seat on the end of his portmanteau, "or I shouldn't hev intruded. But it's the only time I can ketch you, or you me; for I'm down in the kitchen from sunup till now." ...
— The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... the ridge about sunup, an' he sent us back lickety-cut. Said he had two of the hosses corralled, an' mebbe ...
— The Last Trail • Zane Grey
... to argue with Abe an' Bill this mornin'," he said, with satisfaction. "Wildfire made that track yesterday, before sunup." ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various
... in town," he whispered. "It's all over town, too, that you're here. You rode in long after sunup. Lots of people saw you. I don't believe there's a man or boy that 'd squeal on you. But the women might. They gossip, and these rangers are handsome fellows—devils with ...
— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey
... you, and nobody except himself must know where I have gone or why. He'll put up the right bluff and we'll be back before they get anything out of him. It's three o'clock and we must be far out on the road by daybreak. We'll take your car and leave it in hiding at Springtown, where by sunup we'll get ...
— The Daredevil • Maria Thompson Daviess
... almost the entire day with scarcely a halt on the road, but he wished them to keep on into the night so long as they could. They would need nothing to eat before morning and between sundown and sunup they ought to make a long advance ...
— The Hunters of the Ozark • Edward S. Ellis |
