Meaning of sun-shine | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of sunshine.

alt-of, archaic, uncountable

Examples

“And all the ſhrubs, vvith ſparkling ſpangles, ſhevv / Like⟳ Morning-Sun-ſhine tinsilling the devv.”

“That I had not a line or two from your hand by Mr. D. I suppose⟳ was rather mischance then intention: that I eagerly expected it may be credited from my frequent importunities, from which I know⟳ not how you will defend⟳ your self, so long as I tenebrize it here in this blind corner, where I almost live⟳ like⟳ a flye in winter, and onely play⟳ in the Sun-shine when I communicate with such freinds as your self.”

“Thus have⟳ I lain conceal'd like⟳ a vvinter Fly⟳, hoping for ſome bleſt Sun-Shine to vvarm me into Life again, and make⟳ me hover my flagging VVings; […]”

“[…] I [Satan] cannot ſtay / Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: / For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, / Love⟳ more the freſco of the nights; […]”

“The true Aſtroites, vvhich in the ſun-ſhine throvvs out a briſk light⟳ radiating from one certain point⟳, belongs to the claſs of Pellucids.”

“Our ovvn muddy atmoſphere, that vvraps us round in obſcurity, though it fails to gild our proſpects vvith ſun-ſhine, or our groves vvith fruitage, nevertheleſs anſvvers the calls of industry.”

“The Hawkes, Rodneys, Howes, St. Vincents, Duncans; but above all, the admirable Nelson, have⟳ given as much pain to me in the shades, as ever they did to their enemies in the sun-shine.”

“The sun was yet an hour and half above the horizon. She felt that she had, indeed, been three months there; and the sun’s rays falling strongly into the parlour, instead of cheering, made her still more melancholy; for sun-shine appeared to her a totally different thing in a town and in the country. Here, its power was only a glare, a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring⟳ forward⟳ stains and dirt that might otherwise have⟳ slept. There was neither health nor gaiety in sun-shine in a town.”

CEFR level