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Sunbeam   /sˈənbˌim/   Listen
Sunbeam

noun
1.
A ray of sunlight.  Synonym: sunray.






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"Sunbeam" Quotes from Famous Books



... race is entitled to it, and that it can be wrested from no part of them without the blackest and most aggravated guilt. The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased ...
— Lectures on the French Revolution • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... Wilhelmina, and be our little sunbeam once more. Come back and cluster around our hearthstone at so ...
— Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) • Bill Nye

... an aunt from Winterbourne Stoke. When Drury drove up in a borrowed farm cart, Isabel without expecting or receiving many thanks dragged her bicycle to the top of the glen and pelted off across the moor. Her Sunbeam was worn and old, so old that it had a fixed wheel, but what was that to Isabel? She put her feet up and rattled down the hill, first on the turf and then on the road, in a happy reliance on ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

... O'er the sea you go; Fairer than sunbeam, lovely as moon-gleam, All of us love thee so! While the breezes blow To waft thee, Polly O, We will be true to thee, Crossing the blue to thee, Polly—Polly! Dear little ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty. It has the best merits, ...
— Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today • Henry Eduard Legler


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