1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste ii. lviii. f. ccviii^v Yt can not be but confessed so to be but as a man in a bringht [sic] Sunne shining daie will maliciouslie saie that the Sunne shineth nott.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 205 A siluer-coloured Lyzard..liuing in dry and sunne-shining places.

1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee iii. 51 Those sunshining dayes of Christ Jesus.

1764 Museum Rusticum 2 xxxiii. 108 In fine sun-shining weather.

1800 Talk to Senecas in Evangelical Mag. (1801) Nov. 452 While the great white nations are striking and killing one another over the great water, we, by the goodness of the Good Spirit, still enjoy the clear sunshining day.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Feb. 2/1 In one place it would be bright and sunshining: in another a snowstorm might be raging.

1929 H. Walpole Hans Frost ii. iii. 143 A moment later, in the sunshining street, she regretted that.

2006 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 16 Aug. C2/1 About 70 percent of the nation's public school districts open before Sept. 1, so it's still full-blown sun-shining summertime when students walk out the door.

1629 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. 207 This cloud being dispersed by the irresistable heat of your Sunshining zeal.

1897 Bookseller & Newsman Sept. 16/1 God, Jesus and Love are the basic motives that guide all true believers in this new and sun-shining faith.