See sun-shine on Wiktionary
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"text": "And all the ſhrubs, vvith ſparkling ſpangles, ſhevv / Like Morning-Sun-ſhine tinsilling the devv.",
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"ref": "1686 (first performance), A[phra] Behn, The Luckey Chance, or An Alderman’s Bargain. A Comedy. […], London: […] R. H[olt], for W. Canning, […], published 1687, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 5:",
"text": "Thus have I lain conceal'd like a vvinter Fly, hoping for ſome bleſt Sun-Shine to vvarm me into Life again, and make me hover my flagging VVings; […]",
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"text": "[…] I [Satan] cannot ſtay / Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: / For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, / Love more the freſco of the nights; […]",
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"text": "The true Aſtroites, vvhich in the ſun-ſhine throvvs out a briſk light radiating from one certain point, belongs to the claſs of Pellucids.",
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"text": "Our ovvn muddy atmoſphere, that vvraps us round in obſcurity, though it fails to gild our proſpects vvith ſun-ſhine, or our groves vvith fruitage, nevertheleſs anſvvers the calls of industry.",
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"ref": "1808, “Letter III. From Admiral Byng, in the Shades—to General Whitelocke, in the Sun-shine.”, in Anticipation, on Politics, Commerce, and Finance, During the Present Crisis. Containing Twenty-two Letters, from Old Politicians in the Shades, to Young Politicians in the Sun-shine. […], volume I, London: […] W. Glindon, […], page 90, column 1:",
"text": "The Hawkes, Rodneys, Howes, St. Vincents, Duncans; but above all, the admirable Nelson, have given as much pain to me in the shades, as ever they did to their enemies in the sun-shine.",
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"text": "The sun was yet an hour and half above the horizon. She felt that she had, indeed, been three months there; and the sun’s rays falling strongly into the parlour, instead of cheering, made her still more melancholy; for sun-shine appeared to her a totally different thing in a town and in the country. Here, its power was only a glare, a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept. There was neither health nor gaiety in sun-shine in a town.",
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