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单词 as the sun ever shone on
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as (also that) the sun ever shone (also shines) on (also upon)
(a) as (also that) the sun ever shone (also shines) on (also upon) and variants: (in commendatory statements) as lives or exists; as there has ever been. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [phrase] > as exists
as (also that) the sun ever shone (also shines) on (also upon)c1275
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15517 Nis nan feirure wifmon þa whit sunne scineð on.
1621 W. Loe Vox Clamantis 72 The most pious, and most prudent Sanedrim, that euer the Sun shined on.
1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 536 Many of these enjoying as delectable places as the Sun shines on. And for the people themselves, many of them, for flesh and bloud, as comely as the Earth bears.
a1692 T. Shadwell Volunteers (1693) i. ii. 9 He is as fine a Gentleman as the Sun shines upon.
1756 E. Bannac Apparition I. ii. 34 I became the Mother of as fine a Girl as ever the sun shone upon.
1837 S. Ferguson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 492/1 That ladder, which was to me the welcomest sight that ever the sun shone on, was lowered down by hurried and tremulous hands.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. i. 7 She was as pretty a creature as ever the sun shone on.
1862 M. M. Spiegel Let. 2 May in J. P. Soman & F. L. Byrne Jewish Colonel in Civil War 103 As pretty, rich and furtile [sic] a Valley as the Sun Ever shone on.
1922 C. W. Stewart Moonlight Schools x. 85 Hasn't she an Illiteracy Commission, 11,000 public school teachers and as patriotic people as ever the sun shone on?
1941 Life 14 Apr. 83/2 (advt.) , The snowiest, fluffiest, cleanest wash the sun ever shone on!
1958 S. Foote Civil War (1986) I. iv. 279 As motley an army as the sun ever shone on.
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