Sunbeam
['sʌnbiːm] or ['sʌnbim]
Definition
(n.) A beam or ray of the sun.
Typed by Ewing
Examples
- If the sunbeam strikes the mirror at an angle of 32° with the perpendicular, the path of the reflected ray also makes an angle of 32° with the perpendicular. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And as I recovered, what a sunbeam she was in my sick-room! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He entered in a mood which made him as good as a new sunbeam to the already well-lit first classe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- If a mirror or any other polished surface is held in the path of a sunbeam, some of the light is reflected, and by rotating the mirror the reflected sunbeam may be made to take any path. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was some effect of doubtful light or shade, or of dazzling sunbeam. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A sunbeam of placid benevolence played on Mr. Pickwick's features as he said, 'I have half made up my mind to engage you myself. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and gentle as a woman could be. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her eyes were the eyes of one who can remember; one whose childhood does not fade like a dream, nor whose youth vanish like a sunbeam. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As when a bright sunbeam turns a dark cloud to silver, so Chloe's dark face brightened immediately,--it really shone. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- School children amuse themselves by reflecting sunbeams from a mirror into their companions' faces. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Thus it is found that red rays, or the common sunbeams passed through red glass, have very little action on it. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Look up at the window, noble Cedric, and judge by the sunbeams if it is not on the verge of noon. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was concluded then, and so ascertained, that the torulae in the plant proceeded from the torulae in the atmosphere, from gay motes that people the sunbeams. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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