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  • Or Soldan of the sunbeam's clime, girt with a conquering host.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831 Various

  • Through the tangled hedge-rows green glimmer thus the sunbeam's sheen,

    War Poetry of the South Various

  • Sometimes a sunbeam's dazzling radiance would check him in mid-career, and his callow eyes would take an hour to recover.

    "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

  • Is like the sunbeam's parting blush upon the mountain peak.

    The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon

  • And the raindrops brightly sparkled in the sunbeam's golden ray.

    Friends and Neighbors 1847

  • And if she speak in her frail way, it is wholly to bewitch my smallest thought with a most swift radiance wherein slowly drift murmurous things divinely bright; it is foolingly to smite my spirit with the lithe free twitch of scintillant space, with the cool writhe of gloom truly which syncopate some sunbeam's skilful fingerings; it is utterly to lull with foliate inscrutable sweetness my soul obedient; it is to stroke my being with numbing forests, frolicsome, fleetly mystical, aroam with keen creatures of idiom

    Puella Mea 1921

  • "sunbeam's" fear that she shall think him satisfied with what is placed before him.

    Why Worry? George Lincoln Walton 1897

  • We need rather to be reminded that pain is not the law but the disease of our existence, and that it has been conquered for us in body and soul by Him in whose eternity of bliss a few years of sadness were but as a mote within the sunbeam's blaze. "

    Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife Charles Kingsley 1847

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