| There was aureate light coming from above, lighting the sea up in a diffuse golden haze, throwing golden flecks into his eyes. |
| Caiques carrying merchants to their homes somewhere along the upper shores were burnished with the aureate hue. |
| An erumpent sun bellowed shouts of buttery light over the eastern flank, waking the entire valley with its aureate noise. |
| The night died suddenly and the day was upon them, an aureate god, lavish of splendor. |
| The aureate light, streaming on, beat full upon the howitzer and on the living and unwounded of its men. |
| A young groom, eagerly attired, stands before a doorway, which in turn looks out onto a landscape of sun-scarred desert, aureate sands stretching to a blinding, azure sky. |
