Standing then with the others, peering into the sun, he saw the bright, multicolored legion, their hair flying like dark banners, only the thunder, the roll of drums, the mad cacophony of the hoofs accompanying them.

Snorri quotes his own source saying: " The sun will go black, earth sink in the sea, heaven be stripped of its bright stars ;...." ( Section 56 ).

Philosophically, it stands the dark, passive, feminine principle ; whereas Yang ( the hillside facing the sun ) stands for the bright, active, masculine principle.

Diffraction in the atmosphere by small particles can cause a bright ring to be visible around a bright light source like the sun or the moon.

The fireball that occurs as the meteoroid passes through the atmosphere can appear to be very bright, rivaling the sun in intensity, although most are far dimmer and may not even be noticed during daytime.

Readily identified by its orange hue, Alpha Trianguli Australis is a bright giant star of spectral class K2 IIb-IIIa with an apparent magnitude of + 1. 91, which lies away and has an absolute magnitude of-3. 68 and is 5500 times more luminous than our sun.

* Greek: " Άσπρη πέτρα ξέξασπρη και απ ' τον ήλιο ξεξασπρότερη " ( a white stone very bright, even brighter than the sun.

Edmund Halley ( 1720 ) and Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux ( 1744 ) noted independently that the assumption of an infinite space filled uniformly with stars would lead to the prediction that the nighttime sky would be as bright as the sun itself ; this became known as Olbers ' paradox in the 19th century.

Also, most tornadoes occur in the late afternoon, when the bright sun can penetrate even the thickest clouds.

" He then reflects: " How green was my Valley that day, too, green and bright in the sun.

Most are forest understory plants and require bright shade ; few will tolerate full sun, especially in warmer climates.

It may be seen as a yellowish horizontal bar or bow-tie shape ( with " fuzzy " ends, hence the name " brush ") visible in the center of the visual field against the blue sky viewed while facing away from the sun, or on any bright background when looking through polarized sunglasses.

Later, the reason that the moon was not as bright as the sun was explained by a tale, known as the contestings of Horus and Set, originating as a metaphor for the conquest of Upper Egypt by Lower Egypt in about 3000 BC.

* 120 ° parhelion, relatively rare halo, an optical phenomenon occasionally appearing along with very bright sun dogs

In bright, hot areas, the colors of the plant are typically more intense in shaded areas than in full sun, and the plants will require less water there.

Whereas in the comics, Krypton was colorful and bright, in Superman, the planet was envisioned as having stark white terrain of jagged frozen plateaus, stretching broadly under heavy, dark skies ( becoming redder as their sun grew toward becoming supernova ), prompting Jor-El to attempt to persuade the immediate evacuation of the entire planet to the council of elders, to avoid perishing in the cataclysm, to no avail.

Precious stones, said to be as bright as the noon sun, provided light, and God ensured that food remained fresh.

Due to Áine's connection with midsummer rites, it is possible that Áine and Grian may share a dual-goddess, seasonal function ( such as seen in the Gaelic myths of the Cailleach and Brighid ) with the two sisters representing the " two suns " of the year: Áine representing the light half of the year and the bright summer sun ( an ghrian mhór ), and Grian the dark half of the year and the pale winter sun ( an ghrian bheag ).

The frame is put out into daylight requiring a minute or two under a bright sun or about ten times this under an overcast sky.

The male principle was equated with the sun: active, bright, and shining ; the female principle corresponds to the moon: passive, shaded, and reflective.

The sun is bright outside, and as he looks out the window, he discovers that the train is in Willoughby and that it's July 1888.

An example of this is when flying towards bright lights ( e. g., sun )— they are able to bend the joint in their wing to shield their eyes from the light to aid safety while flying.

5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, weighs between 150 and 160 pounds, rather bright complexion, but not a mulatto, broad shoulders, larger flat nose, large eyes, broad flat feet, rather knockneed, walks brisk and active, hair on the top of the head very thin, no beard, except on the upper lip and the top of the chin, a scar on one of his temples, also one on the back of his neck, a large knot on one of the bones of his right arm, near the wrist, produced by a blow.

A term applied to all bright, fast, or brisk movements.

Bleeding originating from the lower GI tract ( such as the sigmoid colon and rectum ) is generally associated with the passage of bright red blood, or hematochezia, particularly when brisk.

He then leaped from the plane, dressed in a bright red suit ; the wind carried him away from his target, a vacant lot on 140th Street near Seventh Avenue, to the roof of a tenement at 301 West 140th Street.

Also present was Joseph Montgolfier, whom Charles honoured by asking him to release the small, bright green, pilot balloon to assess the wind and weather conditions.

Alterations to lighting ( placing the plant in bright light or shadow ), wind ( directing a fan at the plant ), and humidity ( placing the plant in a humid chamber ) are typical.

Thomas Christopher Lewis, the company's founder, was renowned for building instruments that had a bright, vibrant tone which, in part, was due to his use of low wind pressures.

Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, a British resident in Florence, recalled in a letter that " The common people are convinced she went off in a hurricane of wind ; a most violent one began this morning and lasted for about two hours, and now the sun shines as bright as ever ..." The royal line of the House of Medici went extinct with her death.

Most summer days are hot, bright and clear with light westerly Maestral wind cooling the island in the afternoons.

IC 2118 is located in one such area. The wind blown appearance and cometary shape of the bright reflection nebula is highly suggestive of a strong association with the high mass luminous stars of Orion OB1.

The interaction between Saturn's magnetosphere and the solar wind generates bright oval aurorae around the planet's poles observed in visible, infrared and ultraviolet light.

It is a popular ornamental plant in gardens and parks due to its bright pink or purple fruits and attractive autumn colouring, in addition to its resistance to frost and wind.

Blood dripped down the front of his sweater, soaking into a dark streak of dirt that ran diagonally across the white wool on his shoulder, as though the bright V woven into the neckline had melted, running a darker color.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

The women had a bright shining expectancy as they leaned out from the wall and gazed splendidly into the distance, while the men were stern but hopeful.

They had large bright eyes, the small upturned noses of all babies everywhere, and hair cropped short except for the long ringlets of paot framing their little white faces.

One boy who rocked back and forth over his worn book had bright red hair and freckles.

Once the soft, pretty moth found the bright light she had always wanted??

I had never liked snakes much, I still had that kind of quick panic that I'd had as a child whenever I saw one, but this snake was clean and bright and very beautiful.

The snake was hideous, and I remembered, even then, the cool, bright fire of it only a little while before, and I thought perhaps the boy had always seen it dead and hideous like that, and had not even stopped to see the beauty of it in its life.

Astronomers estimated that the visible fragments of SL9 ranged in size from a few hundred metres to two kilometres across, suggesting that the original comet may have had a nucleus up to acrosssomewhat larger than Comet Hyakutake, which became very bright when it passed close to the Earth in 1996.

In Ovid's version of the story, Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus tree, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree.

The Marlins had some bright spots on the mound and behind the plate in 1996.

The Historia Augusta suggests three alternative explanations: that the first Caesar had a thick head of hair ( Latin caesaries ); that he had bright grey eyes ( Latin oculis caesiis ); or that he killed an elephant ( caesai in Moorish ) in battle.

Mariner 4 was the first space probe that needed a star for a navigational reference object, since earlier missions, which remained near either the Earth, the Moon, or the planet Venus, had sighted onto either the bright face of the home planet or the brightly lit target.

From 2003 through 2008, the New England Patriots had a " light " jersey ( their alternate, a bright metallic silver ) that isn't white in which the other team would wear their colored, or " dark " jerseys against them since the third jersey rule was implemented in the NFL in 2002.

Guildenstern tries to look on the bright side, while Rosencrantz makes it clear that the pair had made no progress, that Hamlet had entirely outwitted them.

Duchovny's audition was " terrific ", though he had talked rather slowly, and while the casting director of the show was very positive toward Duchovny, Chris Carter thought that he was not particularly bright.