sun-shine

See also: sunshine and Sunshine

English

Noun

sun-shine (uncountable)

1. Archaic form of sunshine.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “[Anacreontic and Bacchanalian.] The Apparition of His Mistress Calling Him to Elisium.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volume I, London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC, page 176:

     And all the shrubs, with sparkling spangles, shew / Like morning sun-shine, tinselling the dew.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1662, Robert Loveday, Loveday's letters, domestick and forreign, page 68:

     That I had not a line or two from your hand by Mr. D. I suppose was rather mischance then intention: that I eagerly expected it may be credited from my frequent importunities, from which I know not how you will defend your self, so long as I tenebrize it here in this blind corner, where I almost live like a flye in winter, and onely play in the Sun-shine when I communicate with such freinds as your self.

   • 1686 (first performance), A[phra] Behn, The Luckey Chance, or An Alderman’s Bargain. A Comedy. […], London: […] R. H[olt], for W. Canning, […], published 1687, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 5:

     Thus have I lain conceal'd like a vvinter Fly, hoping for ſome bleſt Sun-Shine to vvarm me into Life again, and make me hover my flagging VVings; […]

   • a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Hans Carvel”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 124:

     […] I [Satan] cannot ſtay / Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: / For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, / Love more the freſco of the nights; […]

   • [1735?], Herman Boerhaave, “Being a Delineation of the Theory. [Of Stones.]”, in [anonymous], transl., Elements of Chemistry. Being the Annual Lectures of Hermann Boerhaave, M.D. […], volume I, London: […] J. Clarke […], and S. Austen […]; and sold by J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 33:

     The true Aſtroites, vvhich in the ſun-ſhine throvvs out a briſk light radiating from one certain point, belongs to the claſs of Pellucids.

   • 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Winds, Irregular and Regular”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume I, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 333:

     Our ovvn muddy atmoſphere, that vvraps us round in obſcurity, though it fails to gild our proſpects vvith ſun-ſhine, or our groves vvith fruitage, nevertheleſs anſvvers the calls of industry.

   • 1808, “Letter III. From Admiral Byng, in the Shades—to General Whitelocke, in the Sun-shine.”, in Anticipation, on Politics, Commerce, and Finance, During the Present Crisis. Containing Twenty-two Letters, from Old Politicians in the Shades, to Young Politicians in the Sun-shine. […], volume I, London: […] W. Glindon, […], page 90, column 1:

     The Hawkes, Rodneys, Howes, St. Vincents, Duncans; but above all, the admirable Nelson, have given as much pain to me in the shades, as ever they did to their enemies in the sun-shine.

   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 279:

     The sun was yet an hour and half above the horizon. She felt that she had, indeed, been three months there; and the sun’s rays falling strongly into the parlour, instead of cheering, made her still more melancholy; for sun-shine appeared to her a totally different thing in a town and in the country. Here, its power was only a glare, a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept. There was neither health nor gaiety in sun-shine in a town.