How To Use Gleam In A Sentence
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Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
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She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her.
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A gleaming circle wreathed in holly and drooping with vines end flowers stood out from a dark, in -
Three Girls in a Flat
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What looked like solar panels rose up at the back, white light gleaming from them like sunshine in outer space.
Times, Sunday Times
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It gleams from the hues of the shell and the precious stone.
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The flesh should have some redness, the eyes should gleam and the scales feel slightly slimy.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons.
CHAPTER VIII
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There's every chance of a real Bukhara rug with its 'lozenge' design in ruby and cinnabar that gleams when taken out to be beaten.
Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
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And the niveous winter gleam, although polished, could never radiate the warmth of your smile.
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When I turned around, Charlie was still standing at the counter with a mischievous gleam in his dark eyes.
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Katherine grinned as she was swept to the left by the waltz, her eyes gleaming underneath the light of the crystal chandeliers.
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Stayed the gleam on the steel cap, the glint on the slant petronel.
Ride to the Lady And Other Poems
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(I found this remarkable in a medical man: between trouser hem and refulgent loafer, a gleam of bronzed ankle.)
Retching With the Stars
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What looked like solar panels rose up at the back, white light gleaming from them like sunshine in outer space.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stars gleaming and moon shining lit my way to the secluded hill as the noise of everyone behind me faded.
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A silver-backed brush and comb set with her monogram gleamed in the soft bedside light.
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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Suburban schools gleam with modern gadgetry, while inner city schools lack basic textbooks.
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Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite.
Memory Wall
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There is a bright fire gleaming through the red curtains of the bar window, and the door is open.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
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Clean architectural lines, gleaming glass, flower beds so neat and regimented that no weed would dare to seed itself.
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Her hair was brushed and gleaming, her white jumpsuit had been exchanged for a pair of trousers and a huge coat, both in dark blue.
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Early as it was, crowds of American, English, and Continental tourists were abroad, their gleaming white drill attire and tobies and helmets, conspicuous among the grander colour of the natives.
The Mark of the Beast
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The floors were mosaic, the gleaming walls all intricate inlaid wooden marquetry, the deep upholstered chairs in rich jewel colours.
TICKLED PINK
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His eyes gleam at the recollection.
Times, Sunday Times
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His dark limbs gleamed like oiled gold beneath the faded bermudas and T-shirt.
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Even before they reach their digital recorders overhead, the reporters tower over Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who must be all of five-foot-four and cannot possibly see any of the gleaming sheetmetal she has come to explore.
2010 Detroit Auto Show: Politicians see "progress" in Motor City
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Denise and her gleaming sunburst guitar are set to take the stage with some feel-good rhythms and tasty new melodies fresh from her new forthcoming album ‘The Tangerine Moon’.
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I was desirous, but unable, to obey; these gleams were such as preluded the stroke by which he fell; the hour, perhaps, was the same -- I shuddered as if I had beheld, suspended over me, the exterminating sword.
Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
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It's sharp, serrated edge gleamed in the late morning sunshine.
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His chasuble was a full and heavy mantle in which red and white could be seen in transparency, and gleaming with jewels . . .
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The leaves of the great poplar he climbed in gleamed as though polished; bead-like fruit dangled, inviting young hands to burst the green capsules open and release the fluffy seed.
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And most of the gleaming cars on offer would not look out of place in a new car dealership.
The Sun
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She rocked the gleaming harp towards her, nestling it into its accustomed spot on her right shoulder.
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The asphalt ground was a gleaming with a glint of gray, and it seemed to shine incandescently.
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On the face of it, this brave little dwelling of wood and reeds is a complete contrast to a gleaming penthouse overlooking Hyde Park, but they're both among the fussiest residences of their eras.
£140m for a flat? Perhaps the buyer would like to see my Kilburn des res
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The bed, the mirror, the white jug and basin gleam like the sky outside.
Bliss, and Other Stories
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The other drags him by the helmet, tearing all the fastening, and he strikes from his head the ventail and the gleaming coif.
Four Arthurian Romances
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They all had magnificent feather crests on their heads in vivid reds and rich gleaming browns.
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And there it would be, the horizon ablaze with light where the gleaming flames of candles met the distant flicker of stars.
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Not only does it shield, it makes pale skin gleam.
Times, Sunday Times
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He lifted a small glass phial that gleamed ruby-red, removed its stopper, and put four drops into a cup.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Sometimes a phosphorescent gleam played over the stagnant pond, into which the terapin plunged heavily at their approach; while on the neighbouring banks the frogs of all degrees croaked forth their inharmonious chant, making the scene more hideous, and certainly adding greatly to the sense of gloom which it inspired in those who penetrated it.
The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
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[and] brūnecg, _her broad sword with gleaming blade_, 1547. brūn-fāg, adj., _gleaming like metal_: acc.sg. brūnfāgne helm, 2616. bryne-lēoma, w. m., _light of a conflagration, gleam of fire _: nom. sg.,
Beowulf
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Again, her eyes held a playful, puckish gleam that I couldn't help but not ignore.
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I also applied a final polish to give the car its dream gleam.
The Sun
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If St. Michael had stepped down from a church window, leaving the dragon slain, he would have looked no otherwise than she, all gleaming with steel, and with grey eyes full of promise of victory: the holy sword girdled about her, and a little battle-axe hanging from her saddle-girth.
A Monk of Fife
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If only Britain had someone to watchdog its press, his public reputation would still gleam.
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Less and less are we seeing these gleaming muscular models that step into the blocks looking more like bodybuilders than runners, particularly the women!
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The book was covered with fine dust, but the binocular lens gleamed.
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The style is of a luxury cruiser, with round windows looking like portholes and the gleaming white exterior the hull of a ship.
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Ricky's grin of recognition revealed a healthy complement of gleaming white dentition, all the more albescent in contrast to his swarthy visage.
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He stared down at the gleaming wooden floor tiles.
The Broken God
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Mama Sipcott's butter sauce was gleaming on her chin and she looked very beautiful.
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Her hair had been curled into ringlets and piled on top of her head; a scattering of pearls gleaming in amongst the curls like crocus buds emerging from rich, dark soil.
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The other is Mortuary, which presents the sanitary walls and gleaming metal surfaces of an unpeopled morgue.
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Only the worshippers of Buddha now behold the gleam of the Oriental Sun on the golden roofs of the lamasery; the great caravans from the city of the Dalai Lama pass through the border town with no one to tell the pilgrims of the "Heavenly Ruler.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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It left a mark, they could see it now, gleaming on the sand as muddy swell crawled away.
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Little else has been gleamed from the Indianapolis native about his days in captivity.
Mobley, Joseph S.
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But in the midst of this relentless repression, there were rare, precious gems of resistance gleaming out from the melancholy.
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A neatly dressed footman in navy blue livery stood, alert, by its side and a pair of gleaming chestnut horses were in harness.
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The plans for the new town hall were then still only a gleam in the architect's eye.
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Her even white teeth gleamed whitely as she raised her own opened soda to her lips.
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The scales had been polished carefully and gleamed from the light of the torches on the walls.
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We are sailing due westward and the sun, yet two hours high, is blazoning a fiery glory on the sea that spreads and gleams like some broad, jeweled trail, to where the blue and distant shadow-land lifts its carven front aloft, leaving, as it gropes, shades of shadows beyond.
DARKWATER
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Bells you gave me, bells of victory, bells of merriment, yellow and green; cloches clashing, swaggering braggarts, helmets agleam coppery red.
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His pink scalp gleamed through his sparse hair.
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Her eyes alternately opened upon but shut against the light, and, finally, the exertions of the old man were rewarded as the golden gleam of expression began to relight and reillumine those features which seemed never to be without it.
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
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His head flashed up, huge jaws distended, fangs gleaming, to sink into the slender, silken-hosed ankle above the tan low-cut shoes.
CHAPTER XXVII
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His silken hide of blood brown hue gleamed as he moved, muscles rippling beneath the sleek pelt.
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Gold reserves still gleam in the vaults.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gilded wooden carvings around the windows had turned brown, but now they gleam.
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While the drum beat slowly, a havildar and two naiks went along the ranks of the prisoners, tearing the buttons off the uniform coats; they had been half cut off before-hand, to make the tearing easy, and soon in front of the long grey line there were little scattered piles of buttons, gleaming dully in the sultry light; the grey coats hung loose, like sacks, each with a dull black face above it.
Fiancée
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Even folded it was an object of exquisite design, with ornate brass hinges gleaming gold against polished rosewood.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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He looked at her, her face gleaming with a sheen of sweat as she watched him.
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The buyers, as it requires a dizzying peppertree at thousand hills branson of duck to remain houses, had to exclude teens who would expend them residential roofing at the lowest specimen noticeable in headache for a gleaming of thei.
Wii-volution
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His eyes gleamed with/in triumph.
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While his back was turned, I caught a gleam in Andy's eye.
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As gasoline prices climb ever higher and the U.S. Senate backs oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the possibility of a hydrogen economy where drivers tank up on clean-burning hydrogen fuel gleams more brightly.
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There was a peculiar gleam in his eyes, and a half-amused, half-mocking expression lurked on his inscrutable features.
The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
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In the gleaming darkness, the big metallic rod threw a menacing shadow across our window.
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A smile widened his mouth and his beautiful eyes gleamed with happiness. ‘I love you too, my darling.’
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Meat pudding241 wherein gleamed the bangles that my wits amate.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He seemed to sense her pain and turned its beady eyes to stare at her, its white tusks gleaming.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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As I unsheathed it, the blade reflected the light of the fireplace, producing a gleam on the edge.
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The scowl of the opposing parties, the blanched cheeks, the knit brows, and the grinding teeth, not pretermitting the deadly gleams that shoot from their kindled eyes, are ornaments which a plain battle between factions cannot boast, but which, notwithstanding, are very suitable to the fierce and gloomy silence of that premeditated vengeance which burns with such intensity in the heart, and scorches up the vitals into such a thirst for blood.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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Through the next hour, during which the gentle morning breeze had a little freshened, the dusty vapor had developed itself far and wide into the appearance of huge aerial draperies, hanging in mighty volumes from the sky to the earth; and at particular points, where the eddies of the breeze acted upon the pendulous skirts of these aerial curtains rents were perceived, sometimes taking the form of regular arches, portals, and windows, through which began dimly to gleam the heads of camels 'indorsed'
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers
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All I ever wanted in life was to make them proud, to see them smiling at me, pride gleaming in their eyes.
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But the women who gleam from the pages of the glossies set up unrealistic and hard-to-sustain goals.
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The white, almost gleaming walls of the semi-detached houses spelt wealth and comfort.
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The water sluiced over me like a gentle rain, leaving my skin slick and gleaming.
Brush of Darkness
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Here were satins that gleamed like falling water; one, of the faint, moonlight tint that we call aqua-marine, another with a rosy glow like a reflected sunset.
Three Margarets
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GLEAMS model was introduced to calculation of nitrate leaching in an agricultural catchment in Southeast China.
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The lake lay still before me, catching the faint, rare sunlight at a strange angle and casting shadow over half of the water, the other half gleaming under the unexpected pleasure of sunrays in November.
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A smile widened his mouth and his beautiful eyes gleamed with happiness. ‘I love you too, my darling.’
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Sidonie was an 'etagere' covered with childish toys, petty, trivial knickknacks, microscopic fans, dolls 'tea-sets, gilded shoes, little shepherds and shepherdesses facing one another, exchanging cold, gleaming, porcelain glances.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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We could plainly see all the knife-edge creases in his trousers and the gleaming white blancoed webbing belt around his middle.
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Their dreadlocks flew like skipping ropes, their bodies gleamed, their eyes were closed in divine ecstasy.
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Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us — and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence!
The Moon Pool
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On the west the rough highlands of Marin shut off the ocean; in the midst, in long, straggling, gleaming arms, the bay died out among the grass; there were few trees and few enclosures; the sun shone wide over open uplands, the displumed hills stood clear against the sky.
The Silverado Squatters
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Great gleaming metal ribs stretched from its titanium nosecap to the more intricate cagework of the tail fins.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space.
A Monumental Moment
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A few faint gleams of sunshine lit up the gloomy afternoon.
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The gleaming new pit complex and control tower along with grandstands and hospitality units has transformed Mondello into a venue of which Irish motorsport can feel justifiably proud.
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I woke up in a room filled with white and a bright light gleamed into my face.
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How my heart palpitated with delight when, through apertures in the envious boughs, I at once caught the gleam of your graceful straw-hat, and the waving of your grey dress — dress that I should recognise amongst a thousand.
Villette
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All the buildings are faced with marble panelling and decorated with arcading which still gleams white and sparkling in the sunshine.
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He saw the flashing forms of gray, the gleaming eyes, the lolling tongues, the slavered fangs.
THE LAW OF LIFE
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I saw some buttonbush along the foot of the fence, its dark green leaves gleaming around the little white balls of white.
Pearl in The Mist
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Did I imagine it or was there a gleam of expectation, a spark of hope in his eyes?
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They all had magnificent feather crests on their heads in vivid reds and rich gleaming browns.
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Her hair was a mess - tangled, knotted, and all over the place, instead of gleaming, soft and in place.
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GLEAMS model was introduced to calculation of nitrate leaching in an agricultural catchment in Southeast China.
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A dark figure swathed in shadows stood over her, a dagger gleaming in its raised hand.
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They're so spankingly, gleamingly clever, though, that it's clear they have been designed with adults in mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lumbering estate cars honked, gleaming BMWs tooted and a black cab gave a prolonged blast.
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With the tendons gleaming softly in their beds, I removed the last bits of the aponeurosis, sprayed the wound with a mixture of alcohol and distilled water for disinfection, and set about closing the incisions.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Square-jawed, with gleaming gnashers, Knoxville looks as if he might be computer-generated, like he might occasionally whimper: ‘Not the face!’
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The central view port was replaced with an image of a gleaming advanced enemy attack force whose formation had a wide span like the wings of a condor.
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The soft grass they stood on was covered in sweet dew, the water gleaming and reflecting the light upon their faces.
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It was a gorgeous bowl of strawberries in a beautiful, gleaming clear glass bowl.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard Rizzoli From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Reuter table with shagreen and ivory marquetry From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Collectionneur chest in black lacquer No designer has come to stand for the glamorous 1920s and '30s more definitively than Jacques Émile Ruhlmann, with his exquisite marquetry of ivory and rare woods, sumptuous textiles and gleaming metal accents.
All Hands on Deco
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I stared at the knife in my hand for a long time, turning it over and over in my hands, admiring the keen edge and the gleaming metal that made the blade.
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Rocky had a wicked gleam in his eye and urged them on toward the door.
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In the corner, on the gateleg table, the glass paperweight which he had bought on his last visit gleamed softly out of the half-darkness.
Nineteen Eighty-four
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There's a gleam in his eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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The light filtering in was enough to reveal a darkly gleaming surface of water, turbulent, continually rising.
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When wet, the basalt changes colour from silvery grey to gleaming black.
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His hooded eyes gleamed with the malignant satisfaction of a correct deduction.
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We have purposely omitted cobwebbed bottles, the patron in his white cap bustling among his sauces, anecdotes about charming little restaurants with gleaming napery, and so forth.
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The first note rings out from the right where Bernice Johnson Reagon holds court, her unlined brown skin gleaming, salt-and-pepper hair trimmed in a neat Afro.
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The regular ridges of foam all gleaming in the sun like a Claude.
Times, Sunday Times
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She took refuge in every-day affairs; she told him of the giddy doings that kept her occupied from morning till night, of Cinders (the mention of whose name kindled a reminiscent gleam in the Frenchman's eyes), of the coming birthday dance, which he must promise to attend.
The Rocks of Valpre
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The animal now rose and shook himself, his golden eyes gleaming as he and Wulfgar stared at each other across the dying flames.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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As it walked closer to the fire they could see white hair gleaming in the light.
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The orbiting infrared telescope imaged a new generation of stars in various stages of evolution, several dozen of which now gleam like gems at the heads of huge dust pillars created by the galactic weather conditions.
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A uniformed ostiary ushered us into the reception area, a temple of understatement in exotic marbles and dark, gleaming woods.
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The sun gleamed on naked swords.
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They saw the gleam of a lamp ahead.
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A gleam of interest in the matter came into her eye.
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A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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A silver necklace gleamed from around her throat, accenting her delicate neck.
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It was a kind of blueish grey, its great mouth a gash of crimson in its head whilst wicked eyes gleamed from their sockets making it look like some supernatural demon from the Zylorian "Halls of the Dead
Elric At The End of Time
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On Cub night I would leave the house in pristine condition, uniform ironed and starched, woggle adjusted to the right position, lanyard gleaming white, my Swiss army knife and my Madras Police whistle polished to perfection.
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A gleam of red spotted in a dark ditch reveals a spike of the orange-red berries of lords-and-ladies, or cuckoo-pint.
Times, Sunday Times
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My skin gleamed and all zits had disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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His hair is artfully tousled and a set of perfectly white teeth gleam winningly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Observe the gleam of the soldiers' swords by the light of the torches used for illumination and setting villages ablaze.
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With a thin hilt and a curved bend, three sharp prongs spiked out nastily and gleamed in the room's bright light.
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Any calker worth his salt in time acquired a set of Drew irons, which he cherished like his children and polished by use until they gleamed like silver.
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And the dress was beautiful; bright red crepe de chine that gleamed in the cool morning sunshine.
COASTLINERS
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In the most dark and dingy quarters of the city, the drawing-room window resembles frequently a bank of flowers; every spot capable of vegetation has its grassplot and flower-bed; and every square its mimic park, laid out with picturesque taste, and gleaming with refreshing verdure.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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A gleam of something shot through his eyes, and I shrunk back in fear.
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New sofas, beds and carpets appeared, as if by magic, along with an array of gleaming electrical appliances for the kitchen.
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We had cut away our mast, and lightened the boat of all she contained -- Clara attempted to assist me in heaving the water from the hold, and, as she turned her eyes to look on the lightning, I could discern by that momentary gleam, that resignation had conquered every fear.
III.9
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‘Mustn't be cruel to animals, my boy,’ he reproved, with both palms cradling the gleaming-orange face so that it hooked to his own faintly stern one.
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A gleam of excitement phased through her expressionless eyes.
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Memory's pearls, in all the purity of their gleaming preciousness, were counted one by one by the flute and dulciana; and the sadder tones of the waldflute proclaimed the finding of the cross.
The Rosary
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The rebel army had lowered its banners and was taking cover in the forests that were interspersed between the farmland found outside of the gleaming city.
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Manchester, by comparison, is a gleaming metropolis of cosmopolitan glamour and dodgy haircuts.
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On the Garden-side it is bordered by a shadowy, secluded grove, with winding paths among its boskiness, affording many a peep at the river's imperceptible lapse and tranquil gleam; and on the opposite shore stands the priory-church, with its churchyard full of shrubbery and tombstones.
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
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Her eyes gleamed above those remarkable high cheekbones of hers.
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Their copies gleam shiny black and perfect, with uncracked spines, uncreased pages, and a redesigned cover.
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His pink scalp gleamed through his sparse hair.
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Pulling a length of gleaming silver ribbon out of her white robe with the other, she wrapped Alex's hand, binding it around the sword hilt.
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Their eyes were gleaming with relief and an overall feeling of gratitude.
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In terrific clips, we see the scampish gleam of mischief that shot out of Atwater's steely eyes, giving him the look of a honky-tonk Daniel Craig.
Brad Listi: Politics as Bloodsport: A Conversation with Stefan Forbes, Director of Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
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And we hoped a deep roar would bellow from a gleaming example of exquisite design, superior build quality and space-age technology.
The Sun
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The knife's blade gleamed dully in the dark.
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Out of what may be called the civil and religious storm-and-stress period through which the Middle passed into the modern age, there came a great literary foregleam of the new life upon which the world was about to enter.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
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Even if the display erred on the side of parsimony, the gleaming expanse of wooden flooring and the glittering space above seemed to invite one in to marvel.
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Its twin radial J-type engines are capped in gleaming chrome and trail long delicate-looking finials behind the ship's single-pilot compartment.
Naboo N-1 Starfighter | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
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Their black satin pants and jackets gleam in the sun, starbursts of acrylic colour flickering down each arm.
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The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor.
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The coin gleamed fat and yellow in the light from the torches.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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The horse stood sixteen hands high, its jet black coat gleaming in the sunlight.
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Shakespeare makes Portia exclaim, when she sees the light of a candle, the only light for the palaces of kings in her day, gleam from the window of her home, which she is approaching.
The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses
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I looked at him, though still on the floor, his eyes were gleaming strangely with pride and amazement.
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You can see the Parthenon from anywhere in Athens, gleaming whitely on the Acropolis.
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Fish still stiff and gleaming.
Bad Food Britain
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Thirty axemen raced down toward the beach, brawny men in sleeveless tunics, their axes gleaming in the sun.
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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I want to scale that utmost height and catch a gleam of glory bright.
Christianity Today
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There is a gleam of luminous gold , where the sinking western sun has found a first direct interstice in the clouds.
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The log cabin, set in a gall in the middle of an old field all grown up in sassafras, was not a very inviting-looking place; a few hens loitering about the new hen-house, a brood of half-grown chickens picking in the grass and watching the door, and a runty pig tied to a "stob," were the only signs of thrift; yet the face of the woman cleared up as she gazed about her and afar off, where the gleam of green made a pleasant spot, where the corn grew in the river bottom; for it was her home, and the best of all was she thought it belonged to them.
Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
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Porcelain After the Chinese began transforming kaolin clay into fire-hardened, gleaming white vessels about 1,800 years ago, the Italians dubbed the style porcellana , or porcelain, because it reminded them of shiny cowrie shells.
The China Factor
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It must have been a little after midnight when Gollum woke up: suddenly they were aware of his pale eyes unlidded gleaming at them.
The Lord of the Rings
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Suburban schools gleam with modern gadgetry, while inner city schools lack basic textbooks.
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They came out from the shelter of the cedar forest with a rush, yelling furiously, each man waving his long jezail in his left hand, while a long curved tulwar, keen as a razor, flashed in his right -- big, stalwart, long-bearded, dark-eyed men, with gleaming teeth and a fierce look of determination to slay painted in every feature.
Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills
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She follows the story with a burst of laughter, her eyes gleaming with pleasure.
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She held her sword firmly in her hand, the elven blade gleaming in the firelight the radiated off of the torches that were in the sconces along the wall.
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Silver metallic surfaces gleamed at him from every angle, a tangled heap of wires residing around five power ports in a row.
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His yellow teeth gleamed in the abundant black of his full beard.
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An evil gleam came into his eyes and he grinned mischievously at Tara.
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Something like marble gleamed close by the shore, seeming to leap yet not to fall again-a carved statue of a hound!
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Septach Melayn, grinning a broad shameless grin, turned and lifted his hand, showing it agleam with great round ten-royal coins.
LORD PRESTIMION
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A retinal memory of the flash of light from the airliner's impact gleamed on the map that he tugged from inside his thick shirt.
THE LAST RAVEN
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The red gleam is pouring down on me, trickling through my skin into my body, filling my insides with airy red rain.
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Tana had a canary yellow 1971 Triumph Spitfire, gleaming with chrome and carnauba wax.
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By the few rays which gleamed from the expiring torches of the sleepers, he could see that the first wore English armor.
The Scottish Chiefs
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A gleam of something shot through his eyes, and I shrunk back in fear.
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That physical manifestation of the Skill-magic had gleamed like quicksilver.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
