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Sunnily

adverb
1.
In a cheerful manner.  Synonyms: cheerily, pleasantly.






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"Sunnily" Quotes from Famous Books



... any southward-bound stranger on his way; nor could you have insulted your host more grossly than by hinting at pecuniary guerdon. Before midnight the snow had ceased to fall; the next morning broke bright and sunnily, though the frost still held on sharply. Two or three visitors, masculine and feminine, came in sleighs during the day, and altogether it passed much more rapidly than the preceding one. About four, P. M., our good-natured messenger returned; our comrades had duly reached the spot originally fixed ...
— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence

... firmly to his feet. But Ruth had the attractiveness of all young things—she was fresh and cheerful, with a heart as light as a feather—and, by the law of contrast, she suited him to a nicety, more especially as she was an excellent little housewife to boot. So the courting prospered sunnily; and he let her ...
— Drolls From Shadowland • J. H. Pearce

... be cross because we don't happen to agree on that particular point,' she said sunnily. 'Each individual is surely entitled to his opinion. I am not cross because you would not agree with me. Come ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan

... get fixed for it. As they danced she nodded sunnily to every man whose eye she caught, smiled her smile with the under lip caught between her teeth; but it was not until the end of the intermission after the dance that ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington

... deal more motion, isn't there?" he said to Lydia, smiling sunnily as he spoke, and holding his hat with one hand. "Do you ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells

... a coronet Upon her Grecian forehead set, Where one gem glistened sunnily, Like Venice, when first seen at sea. I saw within her violet eyes The starlight of Italian skies, And on her brow and breast and hand The olive of ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 39, January, 1861 • Various

... lithe, and graceful, laid a friendly hand on the other's shoulder and smiled sunnily ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine

... street, and the campus could not be seen. As the last vision of their Alma Mater vanished, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., smiling sunnily through his tear-blurred eyes, gazed at his comrades ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice



Words linked to "Sunnily" :   sunny, pleasantly



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