sunshiny

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The sky was clear and sunshiny, and they were making ready for a trial of skill with their rifles.

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  1. Bright with the rays of the sun; having the sky unclouded in the daytime: as, sunshiny weather. We have had nothing but sunshiny days, and daily walks from eight to twenty miles a day. Lamb, To Coleridge.
  2. Bright like the sun. The fruitfull-headed beast, amazd At flashing beames of that sunshiny shield, Became stark blind, and all his sences dazd. That downe he tumbled. Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 20.
  3. Bright; cheerful; cheery. Perhaps his solitary and pleasant labour among fruits and flowers had taught him a more sunshiny creed than those whose work is among the tares of fallen humanity. R. L. Stevenson, An Old Scotch Gardener.

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  • The easy-going, sunshiny, enthusiastic girl changed—and changed pretty rapidly—into a grave, proud, reticent woman, burying deep in her own heart all her hopes, her fears, and her disillusions. —  Annie Besant
  • The weather to-day is just like VERY warm April at home - showery, sunshiny, and fragrant; most lovely. —  Letters from the Cape
  • "It has passed away as suddenly as it arose The morning was indeed still and sunshiny, and seemed more beautiful by contrast with the turmoil of the previous night. —  The Nebuly Coat
  • It was bright and sunshiny, and we were paddling along when we saw a "summer duck" swimming perhaps fifty yards ahead. —  Memoirs
  • "It's warm and sunshiny, and old Dick will be as savage as savage if he finds that I've caught three or four good fish before he comes. —  Menhardoc
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