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Definition of Sunbeams
1. sunbeam [n] - See also: sunbeam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunbeams
Literary usage of Sunbeams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature in Verse: A Poetry Reader for Children by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1895)
"MERRY little sunbeams, Flitting here and there; Joyous little sunbeams, Dancing
everywhere. ... Kind words are like sunbeams, That sparkle as they fall; ..."
2. Sunshine by Amy Johnson (1894)
"CHAPTER XXIII FINDING HIDDEN sunbeams—PART 1 You remember how, in a former story,
we traced the carbon cli-oxide of the breath in its passage through the ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1852)
"The sunbeams heat manifestly by reflection, as in countries pent in with hills,
... The sunbeams raise vapours out of the earth, and when they withdraw they ..."
4. School Reading by Grades: First[-eighth] Year by James Baldwin (1897)
"What work do the sunbeams do for us ? They do two things, — they give us light
... But as the sunbeams began to pour in at the window, the waves played upon ..."
5. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1873)
"ARK ye not the sunbeams glancing Through the cool green shade, ... Oh ! how beautiful
they make it Everywhere they fall ; sunbeams ! why will ye forsake it ..."
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