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1817 Examiner 5 Jan. 10/2 So spiritedly and sunnily do the midway and far-receding objects..retire from the high-raised foreground of Mount Edgecome Park.

1843 E. Jones Stud. Sensation & Event 86 The rich hedges Sleep..so still and sunnily That housemen long to go and lie beside them.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 9 Aug. 1/3 An August morning that..is sunnily cool, and breezily fresh and deliciously dustless.

1953 Progress-Index (Petersburg, Va.) 19 Feb. 4/1 If it were crisply cold or sunnily warm most of each season weathermen would be popular.

2008 Daily Tel. 1 Nov. (Travel section) 14 The organisers were lucky with the weather, which was sunnily defiant of the forecasts.

1828 Atlas 5 Oct. 634/2 The Irish novelists proceed in their works of fiction just as sunnily and merrily as if the fairies and banshees were the only evil spirits in the land.

1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 105/1 Faces..beamed sunnily with the light of hope.

1886 E. Dowden Life Shelley II. ii. 45 The time from September 20 to September 24 went sunnily by, and no ill news from Bath came to disturb the pleasure of the autumnal calm.

1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xiii. 193 She stared at her master tied up in his chair,..and sunnily and toothily grinned.

1973 Gramophone Sept. 507/2 This performance..displays Tchaikovsky's sunnily melodious tribute to Florence..to fair advantage.

2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 31 Mar. 43/2 ‘It's good seeing you, Jimmy Lerner,’ Gumbel concluded sunnily.