bask

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Meaning

To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.

To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead. Dorothy Parker

Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul. Joanna Baillie

So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.... Thomas Hardy

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire. Charles Dudley Warner

While the sun is shining, bask in it! African Proverb

When the sun is shining, bask. African Proverb

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