We crossed the beautiful bridge over the Avon, and thought how lovely those fields and meadows would look, if they only had sunshine to set them out.
There were some glorious pieces of sunshine by Cuyp.
The oats then--that is, the gluten and the protein--are but the matter of soil and air and sunshine in another form.
I seem as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south wind calls to being.
The still green meadows, the gently swaying boughs, the sunshine sleeping pillowed on the clouds--all tend to meditative and restful peace, and one reaps the harvest of a quiet eye.
The massed greens grow radiant; solitary boughs shake sunshine from their locks; the shrubs stand out overt; a divine gleesomeness fills all the wood.
Bud and leaf were but manifestations of a something supreme--a Force, a Spirit, a God; a mysterious Thing that took hold of dew and sunshine and soil and transformed them into shape and perfume.
He sat silent, blinking in the sunshine that fell through the gourd-vines which clambered about the porch where Si had placed his chair.
The woods were still; the sunshinewas faint and flickering; the low, guttural notes of a rain-crow broke suddenly on the silence.
Every bosom was filled with boundless joy; so true it is, that man only requires a ray of sunshine to change his most poignant griefs into smiles and gladness.
He could not help expressing his admiration of these things that were so new to him, for it seemed to him that he had come into a land of perpetual summer and sunshine and glowing flowers.
To a Highlander, therefore must not this land of perpetual summer and sunshine have seemed to be heaven itself?
He saw only leafless trees now, and withered flowers; with the clear sunshine touching the sides of houses and walls that had in the summer months been quite invisible.
He slept but little that night, and early the next morning he was up and away by himself--paying but little heed to the rushing blue seas, and the white gulls, and the sunshine touching the far sands on the shores of Iona.
The frail November sunshine streamed into the room and put a shimmer of gold on the soft brown of her hair.
And now she rises and goes away, and all the glad summer-time and the sunshine have gone, and the cold wind shivers through the trees, and it breathes only of farewell.
The mountains of Mull rise sad and cold and distant before her; there is no bright glint of sunshine to herald her approach.
This word, this thought inspirited me, even when the war cries of the fierce Sarmatians were thundering in my ears, even during the nocturnal attacks of the legions, and in the scorching sunshine of Persian battle-fields.
The golden sunshine comes From the round heaven, and on their dwellings lies And lights their inner homes; For them thou fill'st with air the unbounded skies And givest them the stores Of ocean, and the harvest of its shores.
Nor let the clouds of doubt draw near, Your sky's glad sunshine murking; Be brave, and fill your heart with cheer, And just go right on working.
All pensive memories, as I journey on, Longings for sunshine and for music gone!
We call it home up yonder; Down here we toil and strain As in some mine's dark, danksome depths; There sunshine bright we gain.
The flowers must lie buried in darkness Before they can bud and bloom; And the sweetest and warmestsunshine Comes after the storm and gloom.
Fare thee onward through the sunshine Or through wintry blast; Fear forsake thee; God will take thee Home at last.
If our love were but more simple, We should take him at his word, And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of our Lord.
Let others fence, And trim their words for pay: In pleasant sunshine of pretense Let others bask their day.
The friends who in our sunshine live When winter comes are flown; And he who has but tears to give Must weep those tears alone.
But the bell calls to service, and the rolling organ-tones resound in the blue dome, where Richmond's mosaics glitter like diamonds in the stray gleams of sunshine that glance athwart the abyss.
Yet it is an imposing square still, and, seen in the sunshine of a May morning, is distinctly attractive.
She sprang out of bed with a glad little laugh; the day had a grand beginning, spilling sunshine and bird-song into every corner of her room, and to Patsy's optimistic soul a good beginning insured a better ending.
The sunshine and free air of the wilderness are poured around the little stranger, which soon grows into a handsome, largely-developed, vigorous nursling.
Rising above the depression produced by the dreary scene, the woman's genius for creating comfort out of the slenderest materials and bringing sunshineinto darkness, soon began to manifest itself.
In sunshine or storm her presence was never wanting at her post of duty.
The sky so brightly blue, the sunshine splendid, and the woods, now tinted with the glowing hues of autumn, gave additional beauty to the scene.
The steamer gives you an hour in which to drift about in the sunshine and meditate upon the inferiority of any material other than water for the macadamizing of roads.
Harry is gone like the sunshineout of her life; and now this well-meaning, gloomy, conscientious cloud comes caressingly to overspread her with the shadowing pall of its endless serious doubts and hesitations.
You were meant by nature for the sunshine and the summer; you shall not be worried and chilled and killed with doses of heterodox political economy and controversial ethics.
On this seat, one bright July morning, Herbert Le Breton lay at half length, basking in the brilliant open sunshine and evidently waiting for somebody whom he expected to arrive by the side path from the All Saints' Valley.
Earth's veins run golden blood, and we might be gorged with that, perhaps, ere making exit into the sunshine again.
Day followed day, with itssunshine and its winds, the latter being decidedly the most disagreeable feature of the entire trip.
Our affairs are very prosperous just now, making sunshine in a shady, or, rather, in a foggy place.
The road to Ober Weimar was one of our favorite walks, especially towards the end of our stay at Weimar, when we were glad of all the sunshine we could get.
I went to the Lyceum last night to see "Sunshine through the Clouds,"[44] a wonderfully original and beautiful piece by Mme.
This is par excellence the sign of a mind at ease with itself: scorn, contempt, bitter jest belong to the storm of passion, but humour is the sunshine of the soul.
As we stepped into the sunshine McKnight gave a shiver.
As he clattered down the stairs, I turned my back to the morning sunshine and abandoned myself to misery.
Behind us the track curved sharply; the early sunshine threw the train, in long black shadow, over the hot earth.
Three huge elms, motionless in the still sunshine and, like all motionless things, adding to the stillness, afforded a canopy against the burning rays of the sun.
He was not accustomed to carry on a warfare with women, he told the court, nor did he ever bask in the sunshine of any one's favor.
The old lady was standing in the sunshine at the gate.
I see thy soul is open as the day That holds the sunshine in its azure bowl To all the solemn glories of the deep.
He 's a thief, we must own, but how many there be That rob us less gently and fairly than he He has stripped the green leaves that were over us all, But they let in the sunshine as fast as they fall.
That sunshine had a heavenly glow, Which faded with those "good old days" When winters came with deeper snow, And autumns with a softer haze.
Earth cannot fill his shadowed place From all her rolls of pride and fame; Our song has lost the silvery thread That carolled through his jocund lips; Our laugh is mute, our smile is fled, And all our sunshine in eclipse.
The sunshine falls on nothing new, As Israel's king declared?
Man can better bear a state of hopeless misery than those terrible alternations of love and sunshine with continual rain.
The shells of the ears were so transparent to the light that in the sunshine they were rose-colored.
The darling of the parsonage, where the child fluttered about her great uncle the abbe as she did in her home, bringing clouds and sunshine with her, she grew to love Mademoiselle Arsene, the pretty servant whom the old abbe engaged in 1789.
Certainly to-day nothing comes near us and we spend a delightful hour in the warm sunshine high up on the great tower, and then awakening Robert, who in turn starts the motor to life, we roll off through the shady lanes once more.
So we roll off into the sunshine and from the moment we enter County Sligo the fun begins.
In the centre of one where the sunshine falls warmest and many flowers grow, the late priest of the parish has found his resting-place.
Truly sunshine and shadow, laughter and sadness chase each other closely in this Isle of Erin.
Passing upward into the sunshine and forward amidst the long grasses which cover the humbler dead, I find that one more has but now joined this silent company, and those who brought her here are slowly leaving the churchyard.
