Sunshine
['sʌnʃaɪn]
Definition
(n.) The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.
(n.) Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness.
(a.) Sunshiny; bright.
Typist: Toni
Examples
- It made my second year much happier than my first; and, what was better still, made Dora's life all sunshine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Come out into the sunshine! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am pleased you like flowers, observed the Rector, looking at the joyous figure before him, which was bathed in sunshine; 'tis an innocent pleasure. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Oh, yes, I should like a little sunshine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In his clear northern flesh and his fair hair was a glisten like sunshine refracted through crystals of ice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a pretty picture: the beach; the bathing-women's faces; the long line of rocks and building were blushing and bright in the sunshine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- An unmistakable delight shone forth from the blue eyes that met his, and the radiance seemed to light up all his future with mild sunshine. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The lake was blue and fair, the meadows sloped down in sunshine on one side, the thick dark woods dropped steeply on the other. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a spring day, chill, with snatches of sunshine. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You had come across it like a beam of sunshine at first--and then you too failed me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There was neither health nor gaiety in sunshine in a town. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I did my best to feed her well and keep her warm, and she only asked food and sunshine, or when that lacked, fire. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us, over her lovely face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Typist: Shirley