1 A quick, bright smile went round like a streak of sunshine.
2 and then the rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned, and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.
3 Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine.
4 The knight wished intensely that he could free them, but he was poor and could only go by each day, watching for the sweet face and longing to see it out in the sunshine.
5 And so the journey began with the good omens of sunshine, smiles, and cheerful words.
6 A breath of fresh air seemed to blow through the house, and something better than sunshine brightened the quiet rooms.
7 Like sunshine after a storm were the peaceful weeks which followed.
8 The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.
9 Beth kept her face hidden on her mother's shoulder, but Amy stood like a graceful statue, with a most becoming ray of sunshine touching her white forehead and the flower in her hair.
10 After lunch, people strolled about, by twos and threes, through the house and garden, enjoying the sunshine without and within.
11 A white-winged gull flew by, with the flash of sunshine on its silvery breast.
12 The friendly frankness was disturbed, the sunshine had a shadow over it, and despite their apparent gaiety, there was a secret discontent in the heart of each.
13 Father's best books found their way there, Mother's easy chair, Jo's desk, Amy's finest sketches, and every day Meg brought her babies on a loving pilgrimage, to make sunshine for Aunty Beth.
14 The warm spring sunshine brought out all sorts of aspiring ideas, tender hopes, and happy thoughts.
15 Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.