Definition of "sunbeams" [sunbeams]

• Plural form of sunbeam. (noun)

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• "My sister and I were left -- truly like two fools, who fancied that they had obtained a golden treasure, till daylight shewed it to be lead -- two silly, luckless flies, who had played in sunbeams and were caught in a spider's web."
• "He cannot extract "sunbeams" from cucumbers -- from the east, we should say."
• "Squirrels, too, whose spicy ardor no heat or cold may abate, were nutting among the pines, and the innumerable hosts of the insect kingdom were throbbing and wavering unwearied as sunbeams."