sun-beam

That sun-beam, which had gilded the place to his eyes, was now over-clouded, and the first possession of his own domain, was his first day of discontent.

Camilla 2008

A leaf, a sun-beam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind.

Nature 2006

Holding out her kind arms, as she sat, Come kiss me, my dear, said she, with a smile like a sun-beam breaking through the cloud that overshadowed her naturally benign aspect — Why flutters my jewel so?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Emotions I had; but I can tell her that they lay deeper than her eye could reach, though it had been a sun-beam.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Joy was, however, so much the predominant feeling of the present moment, that the shade which reflection threw upon their hopes passed away like the cloud that is dispelled by the strength of the sun-beam; and Louis alone was pensive and abstracted.

The Romance of the Forest 2004

The straits, filled with vessels whose gay streamers glittered to the sun-beam, presented to the eye an ever-moving scene.

A Sicilian Romance 2004

The rest of the scene was in deep gloom, except where a sun-beam, darting between the clouds, glanced on the white wings of the sea-fowl, that circled high among them, or touched the swelling sail of a vessel, which was seen labouring in the storm.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

Beyond, appeared, now and then, a stealing sail, white with the sun-beam, and whose progress was perceivable by its approach to the light-house.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

"Weep on the rock of roaring winds, O _maid_ of Inistore; bend thy fair head over the waves, thou fairer than the ghost of the hills, when it moves in a sun-beam at noon over the silence of Morveu."

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

Again, in _Hos. _ viii, 4, "They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not," is this distinction showed, as with the brightness of a sun-beam, so that he that runs may read it.

Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery