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9 examples of Sunbeam in a sentence

The aggregates of joy and suffering thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there, on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
And you, too, were there, Sultans with long pipes reclining beneath arbours in the arms of Bayaderes; Djiaours, Turkish sabres, Greek caps; and you especially, pale landscapes of dithyrambic lands, that often show us at once palm trees and firs, tigers on the right, a lion to the left, Tartar minarets on the horizon; the whole framed by a very neat virgin forest, and with a great perpendicular sunbeam trembling in the water, where, standing out in relief like white excoriations on a steel-grey ground, swans are swimming about.
No echoes of that discord shall be heard where Father Tagus rolls, or on the banks of olive-bordered Betis; to the rocks or in deep caverns shall my plaint be told, and by a lifeless tongue in living words; or in dark valleys or on lonely shores, where neither foot of man nor sunbeam falls; or in among the poison-breathing swarms of monsters nourished by the sluggish Nile.
Go on, boy, and don't mind; for so long as I fill my pouch, no matter if I show as many inaccuracies as there are motes in a sunbeam."
A sunbeam of placid benevolence played on Mr. Pickwick's features as he said,'I have half made up my mind to engage you myself.''Have you, though?' said Sam.
She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and gentle as a woman could be.
I might as well shoot at the edge of our parson's whittle, or at a wheat straw, or at a sunbeam, as at a twinkling white streak which I can hardly see.""Cowardly dog!" said Prince John.--"Sirrah
CHAPTER XVIIIAway! our journey lies through dell and dingle,Where the blithe fawn trips by its timid mother,Where the broad oak, with intercepting boughs,Chequers the sunbeam in the green-sward alley--Up and away!--for lovely paths are theseTo tread, when the glad Sun is on his throneLess pleasant, and less safe, when Cynthia's lampWith doubtful glimmer lights the dreary forest.
I have seen in his face a far different expression from that which hardens it now while she is so vivaciously accosting him; but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manoeuvres; and one had but to accept it--to answer what he asked without pretension, to address him when needful without grimace--and it increased and grew kinder and more genial, and warmed one like a fostering sunbeam.