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It was a very pleasant morning; the sun shone, and the birds sung on the trees.— Harry's Ladder to Learning
The sun shone, the busy feet tramped to and fro, there was the ceaseless hum of the machinery, but the brain that had planned, the heart that had hoped, was away from it all, silent and cold, and the mantle had fallen on one who had no part or lot in the matter The letter had been written at intervals, and gave a clear statement of the business.— Floyd Grandon's Honor
On them the sun yet shone, and where the boys stood they were still bathed in the keen yet blue and sunny air, islanded far up above the noiseless billows of surging cloud This was not for long.— St. Winifred's, or The World of School
'He is a demon, and I am lost A bright, almost disdainful expression shone in Marie's fine eyes.— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
When Janie mentioned her mother her eyes always shone, and her face would light up.— The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life

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