Summer pastime

Usage examples of sunning.

However, a cheerful disposition is sometimes better than a banking account, and not having the one I cultivated the other, sunning myself amongst the bales for a time, and then, since none seemed interested in me, wandered off into the town, partly to satisfy my curiosity, and partly in the vague hope of ascertaining if my princess was really here, and, if possible, getting sight of her.

Below, the second hunter shouted after them, but she banked down into the lowland mist and flew a steady course for the sunning stone.

She flew higher, seeking the trail of the greater flowing water whose course would lead her to the sunning stone.

Sanglant was intent on her mate a silver-hued griffin asleep on the sunning stone.

The silver griffin lay draped along the warm stone, sunning itself with its head resting on its paws and its wings folded back over its body.

As the silver one turns to pace back toward the sunning stone, it flexes its wings and several loose feathers shake free as a bird might molt.

As the promise of the sun brightened the eastern sky, limning the crags with its pale glow, the griffins sank down on the sunning stone.

The griffins padded restlessly back and forth on the sunning stone as though eager to retreat but unwilling to desert her.

Two shoats grunted and squirmed at him through the fence, black pigs, sunning and comfortable.

Several other of the beasts were sunning themselves on a ledge before the caves.