The smoke of the guns mingled with this mist, and over the whole expanse and through that mist the
rays of the morning sun were reflected, flashing back like lightning from the water, from the dew, and from the bayonets of the troops crowded together by the riverbanks and in Borodino.
To their joy they found it was a white light that now greeted them, for all were weary of the colored rainbow lights which, after a time, had made their eyes ache with their constantly shifting
rays. The sides of the tunnel showed before them like the inside of a long spy-glass, and the floor became more level.
One day, whilst passing near a fountain in the garden, she noticed that the sun's rays fell on the water in such a manner as to produce a brilliant rainbow.
The poor young couple were in despair, and only parted with the last ray of sunshine, and in hopes of meeting next morning.
At this moment the projectile emerged from the conical shadow cast by the terrestrial globe, and the
rays of the radiant orb struck the lower disc of the projectile direct occasioned by the angle which the moon's orbit makes with that of the earth.
The latter, cased and guarded like the U-tube aft, exhibits another Fleury
Ray, but inverted and more green than violet.
It was then ten in the morning; the
rays of the sun struck the surface of the waves at rather an oblique angle, and at the touch of their light, decomposed by refraction as through a prism, flowers, rocks, plants, shells, and polypi were shaded at the edges by the seven solar colours.
The secret of the entire process hinges on the use of the ninth
ray, one of the beautiful scintillations which I had noted emanating from the great stone in my host's diadem.
* In Scripture is this passage - "The sun shall not harm thee by day, nor the moon by night." It is perhaps not generally known that the moon, in Egypt, has the effect of producing blindness to those who sleep with the face exposed to its
rays, to which circumstance the passage evidently alludes.
Ray was an altogether serious man and had a little sharp-featured wife who had also a sharp voice.
"You might resolve not to quarrel any time," suggested Sara
Ray.
The
Ray flickered up and down the towing path, licking off the people who ran this way and that, and came down to the water's edge not fifty yards from where I stood.