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  • Ms. Knapp, a 37-year-old, sunny-faced personal chef and the quietest of the Tante Marie group, muses that "though we've all eaten Thai food, I don't think any of us have experienced true Thai cooking."

    A Moveable Feast 2009

  • "I thought it best to surprise you, Madge!" cried the bright sunny-faced maiden as she was folded in the arms of the outwitted

    Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

  • In a small cabin in a Californian mining town, away up amid the snow-clad, rock-bound peaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, sat a woman, in widow's weeds, holding upon her knee a bright-eyed, sunny-faced little girl, about five years old, while a little cherub of a boy lay upon a bear-skin before the open fireplace.

    The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

  • In one of the corridors hangs the picture of James, Lord Hay, a fair-haired, sunny-faced boy, tall and athletic, standing with a cricket-bat in his hand.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

  • And there, in the brightest spot of the snug, bright room, by that bower of a window, sat the sunny-faced lady whom Harry's childish imagination had exalted into a superior being.

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • The sunny-faced, open-hearted boy won the love of everyone, but in Glen Mason he had stirred a real worship.

    The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow Charles Henry Lerrigo 1916

  • The rehearsing orator glanced up to discover that the director and the sunny-faced brown and gray man he called Governor were smoking above the plates of their finished luncheon.

    Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • And as if, even to this day, the mention of the young man's name brought back thoughts of the last day we had seen him – a day which, its sadness having gone by, still kept its unspoken sacredness, distinct from all other days – John moved away and went and talked to a girl whom both he and the mother liked above most young girls we knew – simple, sunny-faced Grace Oldtower.

    John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

  • Henceforth, while I would not forget, I, too, would be big and strong, and maybe, some time, just as sunny-faced as my big Jondo.

    Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

  • The eldest of the group, a sunny-faced, clear eyed lad of about sixteen, held in his hand a notebook from which he called out the inventory of the articles piled about him as his brother, a youth of fourteen, sorted them out.

    The Boy Aviators in Africa John Henry Goldfrap 1898

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