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Ions in the air act like drops of mist; they refract sunshine and make rainbows after rain.
OPERATION TERRORWILLIAM FITZGERALD JENKINS
Nevertheless they are quite sufficient to interfere with and refract the light rays and to split them up prismatically.
We see, then, that the effect which a fog produces is mainly to refract the light rays.
MARVELS OF SCIENTIFIC INVENTIONTHOMAS W. CORBIN
“Well, I hope it will refract some of the gold when we get there,” said Mark.
DEAD MAN'S LANDGEORGE MANVILLE FENN
Its rays pass through prisms formed so as to refract impinging light into desired paths with but little loss.
INVENTORS AT WORKGEORGE ILES
Because the light vapours of the air, which are condensed as the sun sets, refract the rays of light, and produce red rays.
THE REASON WHYANONYMOUS
In the mean while another Prism abc is to be fixed next after that hole g, to refract the trajected Light a second time.
OPTICKSISAAC NEWTON
Because they refract the rays of light in the same manner as the rain drops.
THE REASON WHYANONYMOUS
In the Phædrus, which is the supplement of the Symposion, he made it refract something approaching the splendor of truth revealed.