To the left, in muted sunlight on a couch of exquisitely smoothed dark wood, Reetha reclined quite naked.

It could have been an Arctic dawn, with numbing temperatures and muted sunlight glinting off sheets of ice on a seascape whipped by biting wind.

The brightness of the room diminished, though muted sunlight continued to filter in.

There were pools, playing fountains, waterfalls, dim vistas stretching away, lit by slanting rays of muted sunlight.

The muted sunlight brought out only the surface texture of her face and so he saw every wrinkle and crack in the skin.

Meriet had set out as grave as ever, but as the morning progressed, so did he emerge from his hiding-place into muted sunlight, like the day.

I had barely awakened before the crew chief opened the cabin door, allowing the muted Vietnamese sunlight to break 71 up the dimness inside the aircraft.

The muted sunlight of night showed that the portico columns were fluted, their capitals running out in pleasing geometrical shapes.

But peaceful solitude, spectacular landscapes and muted sunlight are precious tourism resources.

The muted sunlight caught a fingerprint on the lens of his spectacles, setting it glowing like a tiny spiderweb.