How To Use Sunshine In A Sentence
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The embassy had been shut down due to Mongolia's support for South Korea's "sunshine policy" of conciliation toward the North.
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Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
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Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you ; music cannotpunish ---- only bless.
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Close to the mangroves a big hawksbill turtle surfaced then lay motionless in the sunshine, no doubt sunbathing.
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At the top end of the glen darts of sunshine poked through the billowing clouds and encouraged us to go for it and, fully rigged up in waterproofs, we were soon splashing our way up into the Lairig Eilde.
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Eleanor, out walking, wheeling the wicker perambulator in the sharp October sunshine.
THE GOLDEN LION
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What looked like solar panels rose up at the back, white light gleaming from them like sunshine in outer space.
Times, Sunday Times
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Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years.
Apologia Diffidentis
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She will spend a week relaxing in the Californian sunshine with a select team of stylists hand-picked from across the globe.
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What looked like solar panels rose up at the back, white light gleaming from them like sunshine in outer space.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sunshine is likely but be prepared for wintry showers.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a slight chance of some sunshine in the west.
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The poor might have given him the edge this time, but how happy are they going to be when the promised economic sunshine proves to be a mirage?
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Forecasters at the Met Office expect most of the country to be basking in sunshine during a lengthy spell of dry weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you took a two-liter soda bottle of lunar dirt, there would probably be a medicine dropperful of water in it, said University of Maryland astronomer Jessica Sunshine, one of the scientists who discovered the water.
Obama UN Climate Change Speech (Text)
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White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue.
Times, Sunday Times
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We shouldn't blame, laugh at and envy anyone. We should be colorful in the sunshine, run in the winds and rains, dream your own dreams and go your own way.
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Instead she was outside in the spring sunshine - chancing it amongst the skyscrapers.
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Mr. Lockhart shall furnish us with the brightest aspect a British Ferney ever yielded, or is like to yield: and therewith we will quit Abbotsford and the dominant and culminant period of Scotts life: It was a clear, bright September morning, with a sharpness in the air that doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing-match on Newark Hill.
Paras. 50-73
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White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue.
Times, Sunday Times
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And a whole lot more besides ... We drink brandy filled with lazy sunshine.
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Had a huge brunch (kumara latkes, venison and whiskey sausages, liver and onions, poached egg and apple juice) and now I'm digesting in the sunshine.
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Three times I can remember it: the ending tunnel silhouette in "The Third Man," falling rubble jarringly breaking up a scene (by splicing the foreground and midground) in of all things "Duck Soup," and noticing a borrowed composition from "La Dolce Vida" (namely, a long shot where multiple people were running and the camera followed them) showing up in "Little Miss Sunshine.
Reverse Storyboarding
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Pensioners can have a cup of tea and a biscuit for 5p and all the gardeners roll up to dunk their digestives in the afternoon sunshine.
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It's sharp, serrated edge gleamed in the late morning sunshine.
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More than 5000 people enjoyed the warm spring sunshine during the festival's most action-packed day.
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For the most part, conditions were benign with sunshine and fresh winds.
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Skip drove all night, and by morning we were in Florida, the Sunshine State.
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The summer sunshine ripened the melons.
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Much of the country will bask in sunshine today, with the highest temperatures in the south.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lambs were gambolling in the spring sunshine.
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As we leave the cairn a ray of weak sunshine lights on us.
Times, Sunday Times
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The afternoon thunderstorm has arrived, generated by strong onshore breezes at the end of a day of harsh tropical sunshine.
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Thers's a a slight chance of some sunshine in the west, but nothing spectacular.
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High pressure should settle things down in southern areas, with some sunshine and night frosts as the winds ease.
Times, Sunday Times
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How could she stay indoors, when the glistening sunshine was pouring down and all the mountains seemed to glow?
Heidi
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One of them featured a famous photograph of a gauzy Laura Ashley skirt barely concealing the sunshine-silhouetted thighs of a kindergarten aide named Diana Spencer.
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Gaily bedight,/ A gallant knight/ In sunshine and in shadow, . . .
Archive 2010-01-10
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While I am enjoying the sunshine, I browse the second hand bookstall.
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Christmas is the most human and kindly of season,as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.
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All winter I have been aching for sunshine.
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A mourning cloak butterfly flew up from a tree trunk in the sunshine where it was basking.
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It's not a particularly bright colour, nothing like the sunshine intensity of gorse, or a male brimstone's wings, not even as showy as the palest daffodil.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Atv quad power racing 2 (amazing game) £5 sx superstar £6 james bond nightfire £6 worms 3d was £9 now £7 sonic mega collection (amazing game) £3 super mario sunshine £6 james bond everything or nothing £6 super smash bros.
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He had a little dread of the magnitude and corners of this dwelling that was to be his in the future, and of the old men who sat in it all day saying nothing, but it was strange indeed (thought he) if with Miss Mary within, and the sunshine and the throng and the children playing in the syver sand without, he should not find life more full and pleasant than it had been in the glen.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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May your birthday be filled with smiles,sunshine,love,and laughter.
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He might have kicked off life from humble beginnings on the tiny sunshine isle of Madeira off the coast of Africa.
The Sun
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We shouldn't blame, laugh at and envy anyone. We should be colorful in the sunshine, run in the winds and rains, dream your own dreams and go your own way.
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An hour out in the wuthering wind and rain and sunshine would soon unravel any problems I had with writing.
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Brilliant fall sunshine and a return of light breezes from the south allow for a rapid warm up.
Forecast: On and off sun with mild temps today
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It was warm, with hazy sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exposing prints to direct sunshine, but also artificial light from bulbs is one of the worst and most frequent mistakes.
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White nectarines and peaches are fine, but the yellow nectarine is really something else - smooth-skinned and warmly sweet and the color of sunshine.
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Laughter without air and sunshine becomes morbid, decadent, demoniac.
The House Beautiful
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Gaily bedight,/ A gallant knight/ In sunshine and ...
Archive 2010-01-10
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Monthly sunshine figures often show a close correlation with rainfall and this held true for January 1993.
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The climate is exceptional, with sunshine, balmy temperatures and low rainfall.
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However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone for the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations.
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But sunshine and grapevines have done nothing to ease his disaffection.
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The afternoon outing in the sunshine went some way to restoring my morale and supplied me with renewed energy to face the days that followed.
THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
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We sit in the autumn sunshine completing the Proust questionnaire which seems to bring his mischievous side out from behind his establishment façade.
Times, Sunday Times
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Warm and welcoming sunshine has replaced the intense heat of high summer, and the gardens are returning to life.
Times, Sunday Times
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To dirt, chaos, maharajas, beggars, cows on the road, roaring rivers, fervid sunshine, unpredictability, and loud laughter.
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What is one man's cloud is another man's sunshine.
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On this meter 100 units would be relatively harmless, so today's sunshine measuring up to 140 units was capable of burning.
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Early on, northwest winds brought in a mix of sunshine and scattered wintry showers.
Times, Sunday Times
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In blazing sunshine, punters packed the Berkshire racecourse sipping champagne and treating themselves to portions of strawberries and cream.
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As he sat in the sunshine he glistened all over, like an Ethiop besprent with silver; for his dark limbs and mighty chest had been oiled, and then powdered with antimony.
To Have and to Hold
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The differences in size arise from the amount of sunshine each plant gets.
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They snorkelled, right, and she also surfed on her second sunshine break in a month.
The Sun
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A north-westerly breeze and periods of good sunshine continued throughout the day which made things pleasant for everyone.
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I came here expecting a bit of a doss day: quick meeting, one hour tops; write it up; get it agreed; toddle off to enjoy the sunshine and the 32 degree heat.
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The cocoanut-palm, date-palm and orange orchards contrasted their rich foliage in the sunshine with the pineapple, banana and the rich soft turf of the mesquit-grass.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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His motives are impure but his impact is the equivalent of warming sunshine after a bleak winter of bitter darkness.
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Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around.
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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It was still memorable to see the shifting shadows and scuds of rain across the lake and the green volcanic hills - and it all lit up with sunshine and breathtaking scenery on the final day.
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Bruce wrote and sang all of Cream's toughest material - White Room, Sunshine Of Your Love - with a voice as angelically strung-out as Jeff Buckley and as gutbucket dirty as a 100 year-old-blues preacher.
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We want adventure, sunshine, relaxation and the chance to meet other young people.
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Along with the warm sunshine, the cruel headwinds of Bank Holiday Monday subsided to a light breeze.
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With the return of the dreaded S-word juxtaposed with some of the most beautiful sunshine we've seen in months, the Northwest is feeling a bit punchy.
Seattlest
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The day began promisingly with bright sunshine.
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I detrained a little bit ago and am now sitting in the plaza at Westlake Center enjoying the sunshine, and blogging about the launch of Central Link.
Travel Light... The journey begins!
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So, too, does an incongruous fanfare for the man capable of bringing the sunshine back to his sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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The audience talked above the music or strolled about in the sunshine.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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A visit and a cheery chat with someone will bring in life and sunshine and make a bleak day pass quickly.
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He started the first running race and cheered the young athletes on in the warm sunshine.
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We have ample sunshine in Australia and 10 minutes outdoors is enough to sustain vitamin D levels.
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I sat on the pavement by the music wing to catch a little sunshine, and to look out to the school's handball court.
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The air was thin and crisp, filled with hazy sunshine and frost.
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A memorial to men who lost their lives in the Boer War a century ago was rededicated in glorious sunshine in York.
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The sunshine interchanges with periods of light rain.
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Showers of sleet, snow and hailstones will continue up to the weekend but there will be clear spells with the possibility of sunshine breaking through in the latter half of the week.
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With a melee of artists, dancers, musicians and bands, the crowds gathered to enjoy the sunshine and take part in the festivities.
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You find your sunshine, I was left alone sad.
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Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in southern sunshine but overhung with impending death.
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There is hope at last for all those poor souls who desperately crave some winter sunshine.
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But at the other end of Britain northerners flocked to beaches to bask in hours of glorious sunshine.
The Sun
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Is there anything to beat the first sip of an ice-cold beer in the sunshine?
The Sun
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As the sunshine filtered in, a new light came to her face and she sat in all her glory.
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Now, when an airship flies into bright sunshine, the helium heats up -- ` superheat " it's called -- and it expands, doesn't it?
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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Oak trees work to a seasonal calendar that is not impressed by a few days of untypical sunshine.
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A native we spoke with referred to it as a "ciudad," but in everything but name it was a dead, mud-and-straw Indian village, all but its main street a collection of mud, rags, pigs, and sunshine, and no evidence of what Prescott describes as splendid ruins.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
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Although sea breezes kept the coast more comfortable, inland areas baked in 12 to 13 hours of unbroken sunshine.
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I provided little sunshine for the company as we swept indoors and barred all apertures against wind and rain.
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No sunshine but bath some shadow.
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Life frustration, is the rainbow after the storm; life is suffering, there is sunshine after rain the sky looks blue.
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The term main enemy was dropped in 2004 under South Korea's "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with North Korea.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
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The June light, now approaching the middle hours of the day, and radiant with sunshine, fell in long golden shafts across the body of the choir and into the ranks of the brothers and obedientiaries opposite, gilding half a face here and throwing its other half into exaggerated shade, there causing dazzled eyes in a blanched face to blink away the brightness.
The Rose Rent
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Lots of sunshine, wonderful food, and amazing nightlife - altogether a great vacation!
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And yet the name linden was writ large on those trees, -- on the beautiful gray bark, the alternate method of twig arrangement, the fat red winter buds, which shone in the sunshine like rubies, and especially on the little cymes of pendulous, pea-like fruit, each cyme attached to its membranaceous bract or wing.
Some Winter Days in Iowa
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It's time to get out in the sunshine and dance along to the glitzy parade of floats.
Times, Sunday Times
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Too bad you've done yourselves in in your quest for the unbearable sunshine of a burdenless mind.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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The temple was beautiful to behold, with its golden walls glittering in the sunshine.
POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
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Seems we're two of a kind, Dolly and me, both loving the sunshine and the long, langourous days of summer, and both of us loathing the heat and humidity.
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Christmas is the most human and kindly of season,as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.
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At one point, Clinton walked in hazy sunshine down Gran Avenida, a busy commercial street lined with thousands of people, including schoolchildren in blue and white uniforms, many of them chanting “Clinton, Clinton.”
Think Progress » Summit of the Americas: Then and Now
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British farmers warned the heavy rain and lack of sunshine has ruined the wheat crop.
The Sun
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To enhance the flavour of strawberries allow them to bask in the sunshine and go soft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Early summer sunshine from the dense foliage and transmission, on the ground between India and full size coin sparkling spot.
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A few faint gleams of sunshine lit up the gloomy afternoon.
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What was wrong, you wondered, with those nice magnetic charts with stick on clouds and smiley sunshines?
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Birthday comes and birthday goes each year,and this leaves the happy memories for ever.May this special day brightens each hour like sunshine that cheers every flower.
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This may seem a daunting task because they require so much sustained sunshine, but a combination of polytunnel or greenhouse and careful selection of varieties more suited to our climate makes it possible and rewarding.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's aubergine recipes
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On any given afternoon, our lobby was bright with sunshine and filled with the music of a player piano—and at least two cats could be found rolling and playing there like happy kids.
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Their ideal holiday would include warm, swimmable seas, sunshine and good food.
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The resort is averaging around nine hours of sunshine a day.
The Sun
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You get three days of sunshine and then along comes the rain again.
The Sun
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All the buildings are faced with marble panelling and decorated with arcading which still gleams white and sparkling in the sunshine.
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How could she stay indoors, when the glistening sunshine was pouring down and all the mountains seemed to glow?
Heidi
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One puzzle was how the bacteria could survive the intense ultraviolet rays of the sunshine so high up in the atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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These colours work particularly well in late summer and early autumn, when sunshine becomes more golden and mellow.
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All these she studied long and carefully, while the dancing glow of the firelight played over the child's delicate flesh, and it extended its little arms in the pleasant warmth, holding them up, as in act of adoration, towards those gracious unseen presences, still, apparently, hovering above the flood of instreaming sunshine against the ceiling overhead.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
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The horse should then be walked in the sunshine to dry if possible.
Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
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They were comfortable in the warm southern sunshine, but felt strange to one who had worn nothing but animal skins and furs all his life.
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The hedgerows looked greener and the sunshine was glittering off the Firth of Forth.
For Love or Money
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The island basks in year-round subtropical sunshine, wafted by gentle Atlantic breezes.
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High pressure should settle things down in southern areas, with some sunshine and night frosts as the winds ease.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the sunshine afterward, talk of her name circled the air.
Washington honors memory of civil rights leader Dorothy Height
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Beyond fields and woods come occasional glimpses of the lake in dry brilliant sunshine.
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There were a lot of gusty winds outside and there was sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a plant is small, it also receives more reflected heat from sunshine hitting the ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alpine sunshine has sometimes followed snow to show the fells and mountains at their most exquisitely beautiful.
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He sits front and center in the dark trailer, insulated from the sunshine and the roar of the crowd, taking the fragments of sounds and moving images and assembling the broadcast on the fly, mediating the real event into the digital one.
The Hardest Job in Football
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I'd been bewitched by the mystery of a city so unknowable that even full sunshine could not illuminate the shadowy noirness lurking in the spaces between palm trees.
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Except for a symbolic burst of sunshine at the film's climax, the entire film was grey and cold and wet - and yet this somehow endears it to the viewer.
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Tuesday should also bring a ridge of high pressure, with calmer, colder conditions and sunshine after a frosty morning.
Times, Sunday Times
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The trouble with heliotherapy, for those who live in northern Europe, is that there is just not enough sunshine or, more precisely, strong natural sunlight is too unreliable.
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Joe and I were pulling into Vancouver having driven down the sunshine coast in pouring rain (hmmmmm) and alighted from the ferry.
Archive 2006-10-01
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Warm reds and terracotta, sunshine yellows and striking blues give the property an air of confidence, style and warmth, often lacking in period houses.
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The growing strength of sunshine in the northern hemisphere is fuelling heat waves in many regions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, as they resumed their way, the trees altered and drew farther apart, the ground was solid under foot, and through the foliage of the euphorbia and raphia palm came stray glimmers of sunshine, bits of blue sky, birds, voices, and the whisper of a breeze.
The Pools of Silence
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To enhance the flavour of strawberries allow them to bask in the sunshine and go soft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its 6000 strong population in the 1960s on the gibber and spinifex plain also enjoyed more than 3000 hours of sunshine a year.
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Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
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A ray of sunshine, outline for you my all memory.
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Some day in October, the spring in Australia, the afternoon warm sunshine shined on the abandoned chair in the backyard. Let the homemade orange incense taking a nap in the warm, sluggardly afternoon.
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Rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark cloud, a clear sky.
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With the arrival of Easter holidays and potentially warm spring sunshine, people should not be lulled into thinking the lakes and tarns are warming up, said the Lake District National Park Authority rangers.
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All of this fresh air and warm sunshine has had me feeling pretty frisky on my skates.
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Yes," agreed Peaches enthusiastically, twisting away her head, "and I like the milk and the meat -- gee, I like the _meat_, only Mickey wouldn't give me but a tiny speck 'til he asked the Sunshine Nurse Lady.
Michael O'Halloran
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Gourlay has been looking forward to returning home from Sydney, even if he is loathe to swap the sunshine of a southern hemisphere spring for the cold of a Scottish winter.
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And after a great day in the sunshine city, thousands had an effortless journey to Old Trafford on the Metrolink.
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The forces that did all this vast delving and sculpturing -- the air, the rains, the frost, the sunshine -- are as active now as they ever were; but their activity is a kind of slumbering that rarely makes a sign.
Time and Change
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In the last federal election John Reynolds whacked his No-Name Liberal candidate in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast by a margin of more than 10,000.
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It was a still, cloudless day of pale sunshine.
Seminary Boy
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Yesterday he tackled the challenge of a foreign cashpoint as the couple strolled together in the sunshine.
The Sun
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Therefore your seclusion is the wisest way in the world to elbow off old Winter and welcome back the sunshine of May.
Letter 256
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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Today will be chilly with northerly winds and a mix of sunshine and showers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The growing strength of sunshine in the northern hemisphere is fuelling heat waves in many regions.
Times, Sunday Times
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So we wandered in mellow mood out into the afternoon sunshine for the trip home and a belated siesta.
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These exquisite, ground-hugging little flowers are the moorland pasture equivalent of woodland primroses, brought into precious bloom by a month of sunshine.
Country diary: Westgate, Weardale
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Saturday's non-stop sunshine brought out a record attendance at the platform to the delight of the jam organisers and also the Pewsey youth development co-ordinator Ivor Richards.
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One day, we had glorious sunshine and the velvet hills blazed with purple heather.
Times, Sunday Times
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For sunburned skin or after exposure to strong sunshine, experts recommend a Swedish massage with Oil of Frankincense, blended with geranium and calming lavender.
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For fretful parents, they were a hangout for hooligans cutting class to play Pac-Man, losing hours and quarters that could be spent in the fresh air and wholesome sunshine.
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Just at the tunnel-like mouth of my dim cave the day reared itself in a wall of blinding sunshine.
Chapter 12
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She had screwed up her eyes, as if she found the sunshine too bright.
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The event was held in brilliant sunshine.
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There was a brisk breeze coming in across the North Sea but clear skies and bright sunshine made it pleasant even so.
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The two bedrooms, one double and one twin-bedded, guarantee a good night's sleep after plenty of fresh air and sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
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A home for Kentucky Derby winners should be sunshine, bluegrass and pretty mares waiting to make babies who can fly.
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And the dress was beautiful; bright red crepe de chine that gleamed in the cool morning sunshine.
COASTLINERS
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Life frustration, is the rainbow after the storm; life is suffering, there is sunshine after rain the sky looks blue.
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Besides, the hotel also chic appearance year-round sunny sunshine and Arab myth type of luxury, lie on the bed can enjoy half is sea water, half of the desert Arabian gulf beauty.
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As I got to the mill I took my last few pictures and then, as though to say goodbye, the clouds parted just a little and spat out a brilliant arc of sunshine - the first rays of the morning.
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Her mouth opened in a perfect O. Cathy, standing at the stove making pancakes, tossed over her shoulder, "Good morning, sunshine.
BLINDSIGHTED
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Herbs don't tolerate north-facing windows, or any window that gets less than four hours of direct sunshine a day.
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She loves to cuddle up with you and of course her favourite pastime is catnapping in the sunshine.
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Since dry, heated indoor air can be even more dehydrating than warm sunshine, drinking enough is still a must.
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When I wake up every morning, the greatest joy is gazing upon you and sunshine, that is the future I desire.
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Nothing in life is despair, a series of disaster will be can't withstand the sunshine nightmare, to be bumpy.Life is the dojo, alive is a kind of practice.
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The paddock, baked by hot sunshine, looked just a little forlorn last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Early summer sunshine from the dense foliage and transmission, on the ground between India and full size coin sparkling spot.
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I quite like walking down a busy dock and getting good coffee at hyperinflated super-prices in the sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hedonistic accommodation sunshine coast that as unreconciled questioner strongbox sulkily and neglectfully unmanful, our overhead with the grossulariaceae is callipygous.
Rational Review
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And that wonderbaby just keeps gettin cuter!! sunshine scribe Said,
I don’t like Mondays | Her Bad Mother
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We sat outside in the brilliant sunshine .
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Niépce, a Frenchman, discovered "actinism," that power in the sun's rays which produces a chemical effect; that granite rocks, and stone structures, and statues of metal, "are all alike destructively acted upon during the hours of sunshine, and, but for provisions of Nature no less wonderful, would soon perish under the delicate touch of the most subtile of the agencies of the universe.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
