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Sunniness   Listen
noun
Sunniness  n.  The quality or state of being sunny.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sunniness" Quotes from Famous Books



... save among a small and discredited Cockney minority, is due to the inherent manliness and vigour of the national character. The land of Shakespere, Scott, Burns, Fielding, Dickens, and Charles Reade is protected against literary miasmas by the strength of its humour and the sunniness of its temperament.—R.B. ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... quality in the statement, an attempt to carry off easily a situation capable of unpleasant developments, a studied ignoring of his captor's possible right to detain him. But Corrie swung around with a face of open sunniness that shamed suspicion, his hands in the pockets of ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram

... excited extraordinary interest, but together they formed an image of dual beauty as rare as it was attractive. They were remarkable for their fine physical development, their blooming health, and its usual accompaniments, sunniness of temper, and gaiety of spirits; but even in early childhood these twin-born bodies showed that they were vitalized by far different souls. Their father was a sea-captain; and while Gabriel would climb his knees and listen with eager delight to tales of ocean life and stirring ...
— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz

... at her hotel, her brother was leaving the house. His countenance was disquieted; he did not greet her with that mantling sunniness of aspect which was natural to him ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli

... the clock ticking monotonously on the cupboard and the wood crackling in the stove. The birds were singing again, and outside in the clearing it was as peaceful as on that day when I first came upon it, wet and shivering, to find joy in its cheerful sunniness. ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd

... paths go every way Upon the hill—they wind about Through the heather in and out Of the quiet sunniness. And there the goats, day after day, Stray in sunny quietness, Cropping here and cropping there, As they pause and turn and pass, Now a bit of heather spray, Now a mouthful of ...
— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)

... reflected uneasily that Mamma's affairs were only temporarily settled, after all, and sometimes George made her heart sink with uncompromising statements regarding the future, but for the most part Mary's natural sunniness kept her cheerful ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris



Words linked to "Sunniness" :   cheerful, cheer, lightness, good-humouredness, sunshine, good-temperedness, cheerless, good-naturedness, cloudlessness



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