"Bask" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are black, his forehead capacious, his face round and as intellectual as one of that shape can be; and Mr. B. is certainly a man of intellect, education, and extensive reading, combined with natural abilities of a tolerably high order. Upon his lip there seems to bask an eternal smile; but if it be studied, it is not a smile—yet it bears ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
... birds dipped on the rippling waves, was apparently oblivious. Nor did he manifest the slightest interest in the animated scene before him until a tall, heavy-set young priest emerged from the entrance of the dormitory below and stopped for a moment in the middle of the road to bask in the brilliant sunlight and fill his lungs with the invigorating ocean breeze. Turning his eyes suddenly upward, the latter caught sight of the man ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... a patch of the trailing vine, he brushes away the leaves, he lifts up the blossoming sprays and examines and admires them at leisure; some are white, some are white and pink, a few are deep pink. It is enough to bask there in the sunlight on the ground beside them, drinking in their odor, feasting the eye on their tints and forms, hearing the April breezes sigh and murmur in the pines or hemlocks near you, living in a present fragrant with the memory of other days. Lying there, ...
— The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers • John Burroughs
... country somewhere. Grave and moody, Heart's Desire sat in the sun, and for two months did not mention the subject which weighed upon its mind. Curly broke the silence one morning at a plebiscite of four men who gathered to bask near ...
— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough
... Adam form must view; adore the Maker in the made. Content to bask in Maya's smile,* in joys of pain, in ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
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