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Definition of Sunbeamy
1. sunbeam [adj] - See also: sunbeam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunbeamy
Literary usage of Sunbeamy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"GHAZEL AND SONG (Turkish) SUMMER yet lingers, yet blushes and blesses, Dazzling
the dells with her sunbeamy tresses: Here let us revel, defying excesses, ..."
2. Poems by James Clarence Mangan, John Mitchel (1859)
"... who unfurled That sunbeamy standard that shone as a chart To illumine our way
to the better New World ! ..."
3. My Canadian Leaves: An Account of a Visit to Canada in 1864-1865 by Frances Elizabeth Owen Monck (1891)
"It was most enchanting, rowing back on the smooth sunbeamy water. We then sent
back the boat to the gentlemen with lunch, and some of the servants went in ..."
4. The Presbyterian Quarterly Review (1860)
"One burning glance, One levelled lance, From that sunbeamy eye, And Bribery, and
Avarice, Grim Tyranny, and Prejudice, And Wrong, and Folly fly; And Pride, ..."
5. Some Records of the Later Life of Harriet, Countess Granville by Susan H. Oldfield (1901)
"retiring ; Ashley * is charming, handsome, civil, with the sunbeamy character of
his mother,2 not in the least shy, full of animal spirits. ..."
6. An Essay on the Origin, Habits, &c. of the African Race: Incidental to the by John Jacobus Flournoy (1835)
"The cause and consequence can be metaphysically shown, in bold sunbeamy colours
of truth. But the unlettered and the indolent can view the consequences ..."
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