There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet,
sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
If a tear--a maiden's
sunshiny tear over imaginary woe--dropped upon some melancholy page, Clifford either took it as a token of actual calamity, or else grew peevish, and angrily motioned her to close the volume.
“This is your true sugar weather, ‘Duke,” he cried; “a frosty night and a
sunshiny day.
One
sunshiny morning, in the good old times of the town of Boston, a young carver in wood, well known by the name of Drowne, stood contemplating a large oaken log, which it was his purpose to convert into the figure-head of a vessel.
The glow of a
sunshiny day was toned down by closed jalousies to a mere transparency of darkness.
If the cottage ever looked pretty, it must have been on such a bright and
sunshiny day as the next day was.
ON A bright
sunshiny day, with the breeze chasing her smoke far ahead, the Nan-Shan came into Fu-chau.
And he demanded, with a sneer, whether the housekeeper was in the habit of counting the plate at night; because if she didn't find a table-spoon or two missing some
sunshiny morning, why, he would be content to--and so forth.
Now one
sunshiny day the Doctor and Dab- Dab were walking up and down on the ship for exercise; a nice fresh wind was blowing the boat along, and everybody was happy.
I was greatly elated with my new command, and pleased with the bright,
sunshiny weather and these different prospects of the coast.
Will could not resist this imperturbable temper, and the cloud in his face broke into
sunshiny laughter.
Chaucer tells us that it was when the first
sunshiny days of April came that people began to think of such pilgrimages:--