How To Use Gleaming 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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 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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[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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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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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 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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It left a mark, they could see it now, gleaming on the sand as muddy swell crawled away.
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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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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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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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In the gleaming darkness, the big metallic rod threw a menacing shadow across our window.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A uniformed ostiary ushered us into the reception area, a temple of understatement in exotic marbles and dark, gleaming woods.
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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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.
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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 horse stood sixteen hands high, its jet black coat gleaming in the sunlight.
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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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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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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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Tana had a canary yellow 1971 Triumph Spitfire, gleaming with chrome and carnauba wax.
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And, of course, I got to remembering Monday wash days at home, clouds of steam billowing, the washboard clattering and the mangle creaking, lines of gleaming white washing hanging out to dry.
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I sat before him in a straight-back chair and picked up a chess piece from the gleaming cherry-wood set on the credenza to my left.
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Impatiently she struggled out of her blue gaberdine suit and began to rip open the thick, shiny bags and the gleaming boxes.
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Renee's normally cobweb-like cloud of wavy brown hair now fell in a straight, gleaming sheen all the way to her upper back, at last looking more nut-brown than it did mousy.
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Now and then one would stand and stare, his eye-balls gleaming like coals of fire; and at last came the roar of the gun, and the jacklight tumbled to the ground.
Love's Pilgrimage
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Covering most of Hanuman's naked head was a gleaming skullcap, the kind the cyber-shamans wear.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Hip-producing roses wear their fat glossy fruits like rubies, while gleaming pearl-like berries adorn snowberries and viburnums.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new, gleaming, modern face of Shanghai is a recent development, fueled by China's ascension in global trade.
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WHEN GIDEON AND PARKER deplaned, they were greeted by a furnace blast of muggy air and a phalanx of heavily armed soldiers who had formed two parallel lines, creating a corridor between the plane and the gleaming modern air terminal.
Gideon’s war
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Ladon, Pheres, Demodocus; his gleaming sword shears off Strymonius 'hand as it rises to his throat; he strikes Thoas on the face with a stone, and drives the bones asunder in a shattered mass of blood and brains.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Nature had designed it, and the entire absence of hair upon his high, gleaming crown enabled the craniologist to detect, without difficulty,
The Sins of Séverac Bablon
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With a soft, gleaming luster that even a little leftover field dust does nothing to hide, tomatoes beckon us to the summer kitchen.
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In the marina I can see two gleaming Sabrecraft, a 37-footer named Little Frégate and the slightly larger Frigate Bird, both with twin 350 hp inboards.
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THIS gleaming golden bug just loves making an exhibition of itself.
The Sun
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Fish still stiff and gleaming.
Bad Food Britain
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But the price tags at his uptown emporium weren't the only things in the gleaming cases that were hard to swallow.
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A market-woman with her jolly brown face and laughing brown eyes — eyes all the softer for a touch of antimony — her ample form clothed in a lively print overall, made with a yoke at the shoulders, and a full long flounce which is gathered on to the yoke under the arms and falls fully to the feet; with her head done up in a yellow or red handkerchief, and her snowy white teeth gleaming through her vast smiles, is a mighty pleasant thing to see, and to talk to.
Travels in West Africa
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Ben Stansall/Getty Images STILL WATER: London celebrated the one-year countdown to the Summer Games on Wednesday with the first dive into the new Olympic pool, shown here, at the new, gleaming aquatics center in the Olympic Park in east London.
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The leader gave a bit of ground, then held firm and grinned back; large, white fangs and rain-damped fur gleaming in the dim light.
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This was the Harley-Davidson he kept in a loft, unridden, gleaming on a plinth.
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We are able to laugh like this now, because Alli had turned to Neil, stopping us on the final landing of the stairwell, and held out a laryngoscope, the blade closed and flat against the handle but still gleaming and somehow sinister in the yellow lights.
Between Expectations
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The car ahead on the offramp was a black Camaro tilted high in the back, with dual chrome exhaust pipes and green flames snaking over the trunk lid, every detail gleaming, even the wide tires looking new or recently cleaned.
Offramp
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He shook my hand before ushering me towards a gleaming car.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few minutes later the tarnish on the sword is gone and the markings both written and accidental reflect white into his eyes from the sun gleaming through the top of the window.
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A plush Volvo of latest make was crawling up a narrow lane squeezing itself into the gap between houses like a gleaming dagger into a tight sheath.
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The quadruped stood on all four of its legs, its silver-grey synthetic fur shining, the false yellow eyes gleaming intensely.
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Kullaro is a Swedish label with original designs made from a gleaming black stone called diabase.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fish still stiff and gleaming.
Bad Food Britain
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She could see silver indentions along the blade in elegant curves gleaming in the moonlight.
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Bankers in striped shirts were crammed elbow-to-elbow along the gleaming bar.
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Now Aeson's son, as soon as his comrades had made the hawsers fast, leapt from the ship, and with spear and shield came forth to the contest; and at the same time he took the gleaming helmet of bronze filled with sharp teeth, and his sword girt round his shoulders, his body stripped, in somewise resembling Ares and in somewise Apollo of the golden sword.
The Argonautica
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Which would you prefer: wonky teeth and toothache or a gleaming smile?
Times, Sunday Times
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For years, our Scandinavian cousins put us to shame with their gleaming molars and incisors.
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Another boat chugged past and at that moment our world exploded in hissing silvery blue, the sea whisking and shining in a turmoil of a bustle of fish and phosphorescence, like coins gleaming in a dark, still pool.
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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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His life-sized but nonetheless obviously fake trees are colored to emphasize the imposture - jarring industrial green or gleaming silver and bronze, for instance.
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His knife was gleaming just above her heart, his hands poised to make the fatal move.
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So off I tootled to the garage with the petrol can, grabbed four litres of unleaded and got back home to find Mr Chippy all cleaned and gleaming, waiting for work.
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At her heels ran two of her sailors, Papehara and Mahameme, in scarlet lava-lavas, with naked sheath-knives gleaming in their belts.
Chapter 13
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The table was laid out fit for a king, all gleaming silver and twinkling crystal.
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The werewolf rose up howling, blood coating its white fur, fangs gleaming in the moonlight, its eyes reflecting a rabid malevolence to match its deeds.
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Renee's normally cobweb-like cloud of wavy brown hair now fell in a straight, gleaming sheen all the way to her upper back, at last looking more nut-brown than it did mousy.
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Rising under the shrine is a lighthouse gleaming white in the day, and at night its turning lights brings boats safely home.
The Road To El Dorado
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There everything looked shiny and new, gleaming with the polished metallic look of a classic car show.
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She stood beside Cousins, darker, stockier, her black hair denser, gleaming.
STONE CITY
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The sun set in a glory, and twilight arrived with gracefully gleaming stars, and a full golden moon on the horizon.
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The three gigantic, gleaming, copper bulb shapes that dominate the entrance hall of the Wiels Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels are not the latest Damien Hirst or Jeff Koons installation, though they possess a similar capacity to flabbergast.
Art Brews in Brussels
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This ought to be fun," he told Alex, eyes gleaming with an almost unholy relish.
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She made the calendar girls of the Fifties, with their airbrushed flesh and gleaming swimsuits, look like dinosaurs.
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He hastily straightened his gleaming bronze cuirass and cuisse, settled his sword sheath and gauntlets more comfortably upon his belt, and entered the audience hall.
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Endless stretches of water, gleaming rivers and gliding boats framed within the vibrant shades of green paddy fields and blue skies dotted with billowy white clouds.
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She just kept walking, one canvas-clad foot in front of the other, looking sideways at the sunlit ripple of water, gleaming Lincoln memorial in front, straggle of Canada geese strewn on the grass, and then down at Suraiya's feet, clad sensibly today in only half-inch heels, in special consideration of their lunch-time walk on the Mall.
For the Sake of the Boy
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In the morning it wakes me up to the sparkle and dazzle of the sea, and the gleaming stretch of beach, not yet crowded with slick brown bodies.
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Samos and the shady hills of Ida, in Scyros and Phocaea and the high hill of Autocane and fair-lying Imbros and smouldering Lemnos and rich Lesbos, home of Macar, the son of Aeolus, and Chios, brightest of all the isles that lie in the sea, and craggy Mimas and the heights of Corycus and gleaming Claros and the sheer hill of Aesagea and watered Samos and the steep heights of Mycale, in
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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The young man held up his hands to show he was unarmed, but they continued towards him, the daggers gleaming in the flickering light.
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His face has a slightly rakish quality to it, his eyes gleaming with charm, and cunning.
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Beautiful terraced gardens sloped down towards the wide Conwy estuary, with the sea-going river a sinuous curve of silver between gleaming mud banks.
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A katana appeared in front of her, unsheathed and gleaming deadly sharp.
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The great postmodern shopping malls, marble corporate palaces, and gleaming new hotels, built in the late 1980s and early 1990s when there seemed to be no end to the property boom, rose imperviously above the floods.
Thailand: All the King's Men
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And to one side, lying flat, two rows of gleaming Nife cells -- there must have been about forty in all.
Ice Station Zebra
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I did not see his knuckles gleaming white in the dusk.
Times, Sunday Times
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An iPod can store up to ten thousand songs in a gleaming white box smaller than a pack of cigarettes.
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Indeed, in the midst of gleaming, snorting cappuccino machines, you are hard-pressed to find a decent cup of tea.
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The view is not of the standard Chicago skyline in which gleaming skyscrapers rise like the Emerald City from the glassy expanse of Lake Michigan.
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Her voice sounded casual, yet there was something unsaid gleaming in her dark brown eyes.
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Presently, just as the sun was setting, and shadows crossed the water, the sail (which had been gleaming like a candle-flame against the haze and upon the glaze) flickered and fell, and the bows swung round, and her figure was drawn upon the tideway.
Springhaven
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Running her fingers along the walls and across the sculpted lines of the gleaming mother-of-pearl counter, the visitor feels a contoured motif bearing the unmistakable Quinze signature.
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The great device lay along its single rail like some great iron panther, its gleaming linkage arms wreathed in condensation.
ANTI-ICE
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I did not see his knuckles gleaming white in the dusk.
Times, Sunday Times
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He removed the sword from its gleaming sheath and stared at the blade.
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The interior has gleaming wood floors, chandeliers and striking artwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was a calm area of the river, where there was a pool nearly six feet deep surrounded by large, round, gleaming rocks.
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We throw the line out and almost immediately pull six gleaming mackerel out of the sea - silver and cobalt, jerking and frantically writhing.
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I made the mistake of looking up at her, only to see that the smile on her face had grown, the twinkle in her eyes gleaming more brightly then ever.
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November 20th, 2007 at 12: 51 pm chodin says: dude-man-bros, compared to "battlefield earth", travolta was the gleaming persona of heterosexuality in "hairspray".
HAIRSPRAY DIRECTOR PWNS ME
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A light gray deepens to a gleaming anthracite, giving volume and depth to the image.
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Gleaming with oil, demurely home from the palaestra or the dance.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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It was a gorgeous bowl of strawberries in a beautiful, gleaming clear glass bowl.
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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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She had full, reddened lips and dark eyes, and she was wearing a perfectly simple dress of gleaming topaz satin.
THE WHITE DOVE
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I take delight in the flaming stoves and gleaming brass vessels in wayside dhabas.
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He pulled his left arm away from her and checked the gleaming silver watch on his wrist.
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Then Frithiof fetched the gleaming Angurvadel, but the good sword harmed not the noble foe.
Northland Heroes
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She finds herself resting her eyes pleasurably on Luke, particularly caressable today in his dark suit and gleaming green tie, which matches his eyes so well….
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The
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A figure of myself, alive and breathing, stands before me with gleaming eyes.
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This cave is absolutely stashed With gorgeous gleaming precious jewels!
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Partly it is the vividness of it - the great, gleaming engines with their clanking levers and hissing gouts of steam, and the almost vaudevillian cast of characters.
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She gestured at carefully piled plates and bowls stacked on shelves and bluebell-patterned cups and saucers gleaming on the draining board by the sink.
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The kender smiled, his bright eyes gleaming with ex - citement.
The Gates of Thorbardin
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We share pink delicious gum in our garden by puffs of pearl white baneberries near the gleaming stream.
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She remained silent, her head held high and her eyes gleaming with anger.
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In Montreal, gleaming office towers soar above 18th-century cathedrals.
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The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
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There was a large wooden desk, highly polished and gleaming like it had been soaked in oil, at the nether end of the room.
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Gleaming, iridescent mother-of-pearl possesses more than beauty.
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Sports cars, saloon cars and estates were crowded together, all gleaming and shiny as if they had just come from the factory.
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The gleaming arena with its colourful seats stands in stark contrast to its slightly tattier neighbour, the 60,000-capacity rugby stadium where the British and Irish Lions played last summer.
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In the blink of an eye, her ring collections jetted from the showrooms into the gleaming display cases of the world class retail merchants like Bloomingdales.
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Inside, she had created a series of corridors, one after the other, leading to the heart of the building—a white-marble-paved room set with exquisite pietra dura inlay of agates, sard, jade, and cornelian, gleaming marble walls, and a raised cenotaph in the center.
Shadow Princess
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Lena's eyes narrowed against the harsh glare of the sun gleaming off the backs and manes of several horses in the surrounding pastures.
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The other noble metal is silver, comparatively scarce in nature but easily beaten into shapes where its gleaming silver colour reminded the ancients of the Moon.
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Most of the pictures showed Frank senior in his early forties, with his broad gleaming grin and backswept hair.
