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In the entry the gylted walles shyne on euery syde with incomparable splendour.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He leaves the welkin way most beaten playne, And, wrapt with whirling wheels, inflamed the skyen With fire not made to burne, but fayrely for to shyne.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

This said, adowne he looked to the ground, 600 To have returnd, but dazed were his eyne Through passing brightnesse, which did quite confound His feeble sence and too exceeding shyne.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

Hit befell on Whitsontide   Early in a May mornyng, The Sonne up faire can shyne,   And the briddis mery can syng.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Than anone the eyre beganne to wax clere, and the sonne to shyne fayre and bright, the which was right in the frenchmens eyen and on thenglysshmens backes.

From Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) by Various