sun-shine

The sun-shine of her returning smiles went warm to her Mother's heart, and gave a glow to the cheeks of Edgar, and a brightness to his eyes that irradiated his whole countenance.

Camilla 2008

HERE IS WHY TIME IS LIKE THIS: when everything is one thing, and it goes on and on, time does not seem to exist, or maybe it goes super fast until the one thing turns into pieces of things, like trees: and then you look at your hands as you hold them up to shield your eyes from the sun-shine and they are wrinkled and strange:

the-forest Diary Entry the-forest 2007

I was loth to comply: but observing the sun-shine began to shut in, I yielded.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Instead of the refreshing April-like showers, which beautify the sun-shine, she shall stand a deluge of complaisance, be wet to the skin with it; and what then?

Pamela 2006

They're seeing the sun-shine, but they're also assessing the damage and starting to clean up.

CNN Transcript May 17, 2006 2006

I am sure I ought evermore to exempt my Anna Howe from the supposed possibility of her becoming one of those who bask only in the sun-shine of a friend: but nevertheless her friendship is too precious to me, not to doubt my own merits on the one hand, and not to be anxious for the preservation of it, on the other.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The indulgence of excessive grief enervates the mind, and almost incapacitates it for again partaking of those various innocent enjoyments which a benevolent God designed to be the sun-shine of our lives.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

We talked of the pleasures of temperance, and of the sun-shine in the mind unpolluted with guilt.

The Vicar of Wakefield 2004

After having passed this mountain, the Cyminus of the antients, we skirted part of the lake, which is now called de Vico, and whose banks afford the most agreeable rural prospects of hill and vale, wood, glade and water, shade and sun-shine.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

The ideal scenes were dearer, and more soothing to her heart, than all the splendour of gay assemblies; they were a kind of talisman that expelled the poison of temporary evils, and supported her hopes of happy days: they appeared like a beautiful landscape, lighted up by a gleam of sun-shine, and seen through a perspective of dark and rugged rocks.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004