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  • Sunshiny.

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  • Give her a couple of fingers to hold onto and she'll stand there swaying, smiling and sunshining up the whole joint.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • Give her a couple of fingers to hold onto and she'll stand there swaying, smiling and sunshining up the whole joint.

    Pet names for my seven-month old daughter 2007

  • He coughed, and wiped his face in his checked cotton pocket-handkerchief, and sate down with his hands on his knees, the sunshining on his bald head.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • English Lord, and the Parisien Dame de Honor, were eclipsed as they would look like pygmies by the side of the sunshining, bright-hearted

    Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker

  • Raining and sunshining alternately, so that no mortal can tell whether to go or stay; and meantime here am I, sitting by a gloomy window where I can see nothing but these useless mountains.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • One Sunday, "a faire sunshining day," he climbed a green height above Anusquam, and sitting on a huge boulder surveyed the bright and peaceful landscape and chose the site for his house.

    Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

  • The next morning broke calm and 'sunshining,' and the Pilgrims, renewing their fire, offered a solemn prayer of thanksgiving and confidence, and sat down to breakfast.

    Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims 1862

  • He coughed, and wiped his face in his checked cotton pocket-handkerchief, and sate down with his hands on his knees, the sunshining on his bald head.

    The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Overcast mild weather with fog and slight showers of rain forenoon, cleared up afterwards and became a fine sunshining day.

    Journal of John Work, November and December, 1824 1824

  • You could be right but I have taken alot of sunrise and sunset pictures and even just lots with the sunshining behind clouds I have many pictures with what you called the sundogs but I still feel this was a rainbow as there was snow percipitation and this was the full spectrum of colors as with a rainbow and it was viewable from several angles.

    www.the-daily-record.com's Homepage Articles 2009

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