Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter 
to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless. 
The Time Machine by Wells, H.G.
  
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"From on high," drippeth the star, and the gracious spittle; for the high, longeth every starless bosom. 
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich
  
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Farther back beyond the dark trees a roof glittered with dew, to the right was a leafy tree with brilliantly 
white trunk and branches, and above it shone the moon, nearly at its full, in a pale, almost starless, spring sky. 
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo
  
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