sunlitadj.

1784 Knights-Hill Farm 43 Enraptur'd in..Sun-lit Glades.

a1873 S. Wilberforce Speeches on Missions (1874) viii. 84 Under the sunlit canopy of heaven.

1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company xxxvi Like the shadow of clouds upon a sunlit meadow.

1922 G. K. Chesterton Man who knew too Much ii. 36 Bridget Royce remained as if in a trance, staring at the sunlit garden in which a man had just vanished like a fairy.

1971 J. Kerr When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit xviii. 141 Walking down the sunlit streets she could glimpse the dim interiors of cafés and shops which had been invisible all through the winter.

2016 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 May a14 The girl positioned her frail figure before her easel in the sunlit room she uses as a studio.

1857 Friend of Israel Feb. 305 We find in the nation as a whole, the people chosen of God to preserve his name and worship throughout many generations, moving on the sunlit uplands, while the world sat in shadow beneath.

1898 ‘R. Connor’ Black Rock iv. 94 A man, to see far, must climb to some height, and I was too much upon the plain in those days to catch even a glimpse of distant sunlit uplands of triumphant achievement that lie beyond the valley of self-sacrifice.

1940 W. S. Churchill in Hansard Commons 18 June 60 If we can stand up to him [sc. Hitler], all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.

1967 Esquire Sept. 183/2 Do we emerge into Churchill's sunlit uplands or into Orwell's 1984?

2003 Managem. Today Jan. 53/2 Chairmen have spent money they don't have paying players they can't afford in the hope that they'll be able to guide the club to the sunlit uplands of the Premiership, where the real money can be made.