Throughout this preparation there had been a constant tremor in Hepzibah's frame; an agitation so powerful that Phoebe could see the quivering of her gaunt shadow, as thrown by the firelight on the kitchen wall, or by the
sunshine on the parlor floor.
The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless
sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.
Bright grew the
sunshine, and the soft summer air Was filled with the music of flowers singing there; But faint grew the little bud with thirst and pain, And longed for the cool dew; but now 't was in vain.
The vivid colours of their draped raiment and the gold of their earrings invested with a barbaric and regal magnificence their figures, stepping out freely in a shower of broken
sunshine. The whiteness of their teeth was still more dazzling than the splendour of jewels at their ears.
He walked up, and a little boy, playing unconcernedly in the
sunshine, started at his approach and fled quickly away: to him the stranger was the enemy.
Warmed by the spring
sunshine he sat in the caleche looking at the new grass, the first leaves on the birches, and the first puffs of white spring clouds floating across the clear blue sky.
The next morning she went to play with the flowers in the warm
sunshine, and thus passed away a day.
Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In
sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado.
In truth, so little did these poor young people deserve the mighty prize which had lured them thither, that they had slept peacefully all night, and till the summits of the hills were glittering with
sunshine; while the other adventurers had tossed their limbs in feverish wakefulness, or dreamed of climbing precipices, and set off to realize their dreams with the earliest peep of dawn.
It had, indeed, a very cheery aspect, the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed; so that, when the
sunshine fell aslant-wise over the front of the edifice, it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful.
There was only one cloud that now and then came across Adam's
sunshine: Hetty seemed unhappy sometimes.
Pale-golden and vermilion orchids flaunted their unhealthy blossoms in the golden, dripping
sunshine that filtered through the matted roof.