At sunset, well after 8 o'clock, they find what they're looking for: a long-legged, graceful silhouette against the flaming sky and water.
Although night was coming on, the flaming sky was creating enough of a lurid light to see.
And that evening as the suns et sails were sighted to the west - five ships in silhouette against the flaming sky.
Presently they were bowling along through Honolulu's streets, under a flaming blue sky.
As the uruketo surged over the long waves they glimpsed a dark line on the horizon below the flaming sky.
He turned to Laurana, who was sitting straight now, gazing beyond into the flaming sky, her thoughts far away.
That line showed humps and waverings, black against the flaming sky.
It was an enormous detonation, lumber and stone arcing up into the flaming sky.
He stood at the entrance for a moment and looked out through the fringe of palms across the street toward the flaming sky.
She faced a distressing lack Of silhouettes against the flaming sky.