How To Use Shining In A Sentence

The sun was shining, the food at the restaurant was good and I was left with a warm glow in my tummy afterwards.
The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.
I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season? Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
The deer brought him to where Rishyashringa was, and Vibondaka saw this shining young baby with deer horns.
So my idea is that we need these shining knights from the castle to journey forth on a quest.

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One day she would be the shining example of a loving wife and mother.
It looked like it was going to be grotty, but as I was on the tube the clouds all seemed to disappear and by the time I came back above ground at Tottenham Court Road station the sky was a beautiful clear blue and the sun was shining brightly.
The stars gleaming and moon shining lit my way to the secluded hill as the noise of everyone behind me faded.
Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
Jacqui looked at me, her eyes shining with not relief or left over fear or any other emotion instead she burst into a spate of giggles.
I suddenly feel myself like a doll,acting all kinds of joys and sorrows.There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
The man who dragged her from the house wore the shining, metal armor of a knight.
Photographic images can be used in the design by shining a light through a transparency onto a chemically treated mesh.
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. Garrison Keillor
All the man saw was a bright azure sky, bright white clouds moving about like sea lions chasing one another, and a bright shining sun that warmed his face.
They were switched on at the beginning of the month and will stay shining until the 12 th night.
Dominion States of America tramble the country from sea to shining sea? WN.com - Articles related to Capital gains tax: Obsorne 'looking to take sting out'
We're the generation raised on Stephen King, The Shining or "shinning" if you're Groundskeeper Willie, Freddie and Jason slasher movies, and so on, but make a movie with some little English kids possessed by the spirits of dead lovers and we get all freaked out. Archive 2005-11-01
Recently reformulated, it is paraben-free and really leaves hair shining. Times, Sunday Times
It was a gorgeous, awe-inspiring piece of modern machinery - almost Zen-like in its shining simplicity and austere precision.
The sun was shining high overhead but it wasn't mirrored in the water.
So next time the sun is shining and the birds are calling, go outside to broaden your exercise routine.
I went in, and found there a stoutish, middle – aged person, in a brown surtout and black tights and shoes, with no more hair upon his head (which was a large one, and very shining) than there is upon an egg, and with a very extensive face, which he turned full upon me. David Copperfield
He turned to Michael, whose blue eyes were shining from the ride in the open carriage.
Hemmed in by its straightedge boundaries, shining moons and planets of dust would swirl and turn, or glide in, through, and out of the beam's dimensions like miniature ships. I didn't know Nostradamus played in McNamara's band (Novel - excerpt)
The luck of the Irish and last year's bronze medalists was not shining.
The crowd made way for the shepherd and his following, and as they drew near to the raised platform the two white cats, who were Edred and Elfrida, looked up and saw in the middle and biggest chair a splendid, dark-faced man in a kind of fringed turban with two long feathers in it, and in the two chairs to right and left of him, clothed in beautiful embroidered stuffs, with shining collars of jewels about their necks, Father and Uncle Jim! The House of Arden
Perhaps it was due to the gibbous moon which was shining right through my window on to my bed. THE BLACK OPAL
Adams took over responsibility for "a shining constellation of museums ... with the responsibility to use these resources for the cultural enrichment and education of the nation".
The sun is shining on Alpine pistes and resorts are relying on artificial snow cannons to keep slopes open.
As we left Girvan, with the sun shining, the wind blowing in its usual and helpful easterly direction, we climbed away from the town on a good open track which, despite the steep gradient, added to a sense of keen anticipation.
The spiv, the showman; Mr Blair promised a brave new world - a shining castle on the hill - very Reaganish... a promise he most certainly could not uphold as there was no hill, the castle was made of papier mache and when the rains came it melted away...... The coalition counts on blaming Labour for everything. Bad move| Rafael Behr
What had been shining bright and brand spanking new was now a total catastrophic loss.
Shining like silver, but with flecks of color---scarlet and sky blue---in its luster. EVERVILLE
Yellow; the antennæ fuscous above, also a fuscous cloud at the apex of the anterior wings, the wings hyaline with the nervures black; a spot on the scape within, and three longitudinal stripes on the mesothorax, black; the latter slightly punctured anteriorly; the metathorax smooth and shining, with three oblique carinæ on each side, and a small subovate enclosed space in the middle of the disk. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-apparelled shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions. THE KANAKA SURF
The day was set fair with the spring sun shining down.
This shining model of a rural health service seems to be, simply, a happy accident of history and geography. Times, Sunday Times
The hard rock, which yields a shining black surface with copper-coloured spots when polished, transformed the poor villages with no irrigation facility to speak of, into a hub of economic activity.
I may so plant myself upon Him, as that in Him I shall be strong, and then my life will not only grow like a tree and have its leaf green and broad, and its fruit the natural outcome of its vitality, but it will rise like some stately building, course by course, pillar by pillar, until at last the shining topstone is set there. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
The sun was shining outside, but it didn't change the wintery cold that stuck to the windows and tried to enter the warm room.
I remember it was on a fine morning with the sun shining down.
It is now hoped to put a tapestry behind the tabernacle with a light shining on it.
To your left you pass Cho Oyu, Mount Everest, and Makalu, each summit spiking in a web of frosted snow and giving way to yet more distant summits, the shining whiteness becoming a filigree of ice trails as your eyes fall to the lower ridges and then to stepped fields and trees—the last great undestroyed forests of the Himalayas. Vanity Fair - Enter the Dragon King
But there is one shining beacon of light - car auctions are booming. The Sun
If you weeped for the missing sunset,you would miall the shining stars.
One way of understanding God's oneness is to imagine light shining through a prism.
Men dress as charros, or Mexican cowboys, and wear wide-brimmed sombreros along with tailored jackets and pants lined with silver or shining metal buttons.
The diamond was shining brilliantly in the sun, casting tiny rainbows on her fingers.
Black and punctured, with thin long griseous pubescence; the vertex, disk of the thorax, and the abdomen shining; the mandibles and clypeus yellow, the latter with a black bell-shaped spot in the middle; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the tibiæ with a yellow line outside. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Since the bridge blocks much of the sunlight shining in the loft's direction, Brayton had to devise ways to warm the space from the inside.
A half-score of white-coated foot flared like fatwood in a winter fire, and the line slowed, but only momentarily, before the Shining Foot surged forward once more, the second line of troops marching over the charred corpses of those who had led the charge. The Chaos Balance
On the outer edges of the sword was shining steel, sharpened to a fine point.
A bright light was shining on him, and all he could think of was how stereotypically cliché this was.
They are full of the glitter and bluster of German militarism ?mailed fist and shining armour.
The magazines came to me in shrink-wrap, my name shining out in glossy black or blue or pink. The Mother Garden
Reddish-yellow; the head, apical joint of the intermediate tarsi, the apex of the posterior tibiæ, and the third and following segments of the abdomen black; the thorax and legs with a thin, short, pale fulvous pubescence; the head and abdomen smooth and shining; the head produced before the eyes into a kind of beak, rufo-piceous anteriorly. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Whispering my name, he pulled back again, face just inches from my own, eyes shining black in the dim light.
Each one was a girl of fair common-sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or dress herself up, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others.
For instance, Youngna Park's "Balloons Midtown, Manhattan" is a row of balloons seen against a plate-glass window outside of which some high-rise office and apartment buildings are visible, but the sun is shining so intensely through the window that it bleaches the color from the balloons. Shadows and Light Somewhere in Time
Initially seen as the engine of an independent India - the first "swadeshi" steel mill was completed in 1920 by the Tata Iron and Steel Company just across the present day Orissa-Jhakhand border in Jamshedpur - and then cast into shadow by the shining "new economy" of the 1990's; a five year rally in international prices has seen the iron and steel sector make a strong return in the daily business pages. Kafila
The noontime sun is shining directly over the latitude line called the Tropic of Capricorn, which lies 23.5 degrees in latitude south of the Earth's equator. HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
Each whale ship carries its own brick kiln, above which are two big shining pots.
In her memory, the sun was always shining, the air warm, though it was really late fall.
Her golden-brown shining hair waved back from a side parting with that carefully contrived artlessness which is the crowning achievement of a coiffeur, and in colour it exactly matched her soft frock, which was of the sports variety with a finely pleated skirt. Juggernaut
Leather is a key material for the season, along with parachute silk, cotton poplin, cotton canvas and shining silk.
Jagged impressions of brightly shining lights, like broken sunbeams gone horribly wrong, they flittered through his mind. Healing the Highlander
The procession passed ranks of red-clad guards, their gold badges shining brightly in the sunlight, and turned into the sanded courtyard outside the hall.
The moon was shining enough to give a ghostly luminosity to the buildings that crowded both sides of the narrow street.
The flowers are 2 in. long, bell-shaped; the petals shining lemon-yellow, with a tinge of brown on the outside, whilst the sepals are like a number of fish-scales, overlapping each other down the outside of the campanulate tube. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
My senses were all confused as within my sight was a king's ransom - Spanish gold doubloons and shining silver reals, gold pieces of eight, old English milled gold guineas, crowns, minted silver shillings.
Just two tiny drops in each eye will leave your eyes shining with a dewy glow. The Sun
The gassy giant, Jupiter, can be seen shining high in the constellation of Leo.
She stopped the Cadillac and shifted the gear into park before turning to face me with a softened look of concern shining through her dark brown eyes.
The walls were covered with pictures and over the workbench was a cupboard containing books and songs; the little kitchen was full of shining plates and metal pans or by means of a ladder it was possible to go out on the roof where, in the gutters between it and the neighbor's house, there was a great chest filled with soil. Archive 2006-01-01
Thus, once again, a moment of rebirth occurs, a new shining nativity of a new soul, not as a physical entity vulnerable to decomposition, but a living memory to the immortal and indestructible nation.
Juxtaposed against his traditional weather-beaten cowboy gear is a shining chrome lightsaber — a symbol of his destruction of a Jedi warrior.
Even at such a moment he was not unable to notice how pretty she looked, with a flushed face and shining eyes.
On either side of it, the city seemed to give way entirely for the airway; it hung, suspended, like a floating river cutting through a steep, shining landscape.
If you are determined to create a shining future with all your heart, it is unlikely that you will be defeated. Dr T.P.Chia
This was a moonbow, or lunar rainbow, created by a bright full moon shining through a shower of rain. Times, Sunday Times
One member species, Rhinopithecus roxellana, is widely known as golden monkey or snub-nosed monkey for its shining golden coat and funny snub nose.
The way he to misinterprets movies, dismisses anything he doesn't understand (which is a lot), and venerates Inspector Gadget and Star Wars as the twin shining beacons of Western cultural achievement fills me with an untold rage.
In many cases the vases are bicolour, the body being of a fine smooth red, polished with a stone, while the neck and base are of an intense black, the surface of which is even more shining than that of the red part. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
The sun was shining straight in her eyes which made her squint.
On the other hand, Indian sages, philosophers and mystics have held out a shining vision that has inspired the world.
Madame Monconseil assures me that you are most surprisingly improved in your air, manners, and address: go on, my dear child, and never think that you are come to a sufficient degree of perfection; Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum; and in those shining parts of the character of a gentleman, there is always something remaining to be acquired. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
He was sitting with his legs up on the seat in front of him with the sun shining on his glossy chestnut brown hair.
But too much could be tough to take - he was such an upbeat, shining example.
The most compelling lesson of this marathon legal affair is that truth is no shining city on a hill.
The eighth of 16 children, he tells the story of how, as a child, he worked shining shoes on the street.
The sun lanced through the overcast veil of blizzard-clouds and snow-squalls and gilded the twin vessels in shining gold.
There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
Not only has she maintained it, but she has kept it bright and shining, untarnished by time.
The sun was shining straight in her eyes which made her squint.
Elle answered the door, her bright blonde hair shining in the hall light.
Perhaps it was due to the gibbous moon which was shining right through my window on to my bed. THE BLACK OPAL
The sun was shining, the geishas were dancing and the crowds were maddening.
His description of the origins of the Vietnamese Communist party, for example, is wrong in almost every particular; his warm admiration for John Paul Vann, the mythomaniac American counter-insurgency officer whose career was detailed in Neil Sheehan's Pulitzer-prize winning Bright and Shining Lie (1988), is particularly perverse. The Atlantic and Its Enemies by Norman Stone
And Galway is the shining jewel in the crown of the Irish racing industry.
Enter former FBI profiler Frank Black, a man delving headfirst into the dark recesses of the human soul, shining light on the horrors that men and women do.
God is shining on you.
Her hair was shining golden white and she was pale, paler than Josh and John.
We see him tall, trim, handsome, usually in a navy double-breasted blazer with brass buttons, the silver hair shining, a man with a senatorial look, if not presidential.
Some visitors gather around the sparkling amethyst geodes or the shining pyrite crystals.
She waited, and when it moved again she saw it, a speck of shining beauty even on this dull morning: a kingfisher. FOLLY
Rumored to provide its wielder with incredible powers, this magical sword is in high demand, but fate chooses young Toma as heritor of the Shining Force.
Black iron ore, sometimes of a shining surface, granulated in fine grains, crystallized in polygons, octaedra, cubes, and rhomboides. A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan
I suddenly feel myself like a doll,acting all kinds of joys and sorrows.There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
In blazers and berets, their medals shining, they smiled broadly and soaked up the applause and cheers.
The sunlight shining through the branches made a filigree pattern on the tiles.
It was solid oak, hard and formidable, shining gloss in the dimly lit kitchen.
Fortune was not overkind, but his 'virtues and pious intentions may be read ... shining too gloriously to be dusked by misfortune.' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
Trees on the opposite bank were bursting into leaf, although the sun was defiantly not shining.
There was no light but the moon shining in through the shutterless window, and no talk that I heard," said Childe Charity; and she thought they must have been dreaming. Granny's Wonderful Chair
This act of selfless commitment from one so young should be a shining example to the nation. Times, Sunday Times
To them the restaurant, with its warm yellow lights shining at the end of an otherwise unlit road, must seem inordinately welcoming. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
He gazed steadily at her with a calm and regal expression, his eyes shining softly.
The _fourth glume_ is chartaceous, shining, smooth ovate-oblong, apex cuspidate, with a few hairs on the edges at the apex, faintly 5-nerved. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
As the legendary adman James Webb Young said: ‘What we are has a way of shining through, whatever we say or do.’
You could say he's a shining example, except le Carré's point is that while Smiley's powers scintillate, he's practically a cipher when he's not putting those talents to work. David Finkle: First Nighter: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Alec Guinness Spectacular on DVD
Even leaf, brick, shingle and blade of grass is fresh - washed and shining.
In the same way, Christ was to be shiningly visible; indeed, that was the very purpose of all history.
Someone sitting near me was shining his shoes to such a degree he could see his face on them.
And from it burst a bright light, shining and sparkling with all colors of the rainbow.
Water gilding allows the object to be burnished to achieve a polished, shining surface.
She was a short, stocky woman, trim and trig in her MA gown, with shining waves of brown hair and an attractive smile. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
The _first glume_ is concave, pale yellow, shining and cartilaginous to about 2/3 its length from the base, and the upper third is membranous, dimidiately ovate; at the back in the cartilaginous portion, there are three to six deep convex smooth ridges running across the glume; the membranous tip is thin and with anastomosing green veins; the margins of this glume are thick, narrowly incurved, ciliolate, and with a narrow wing on the outer margin. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
This mythic quality is what he admired in the work, and yet his literal-minded insistence on shining a spotlight into every crevice makes the whole thing seem completely banal.
At the moment I am reading King’s “The Shining” and the internal monologue of all the characters features prominently – though in tiny snippets, rather than in large slabs and are delineated from the rest of the narrative, through the use of brackets. Interior Monologues in Writing « Write Anything
Now the little ersh had come to the meeting, with his spiny back, and his big front fins, and his head all shining in blue and gold and green. Old Peter's Russian Tales
Then I thought of our father the drug launderer, years before, looking down in the same way I studied Jenla's bent head, now -- his pronouncing a special name not for his daughters, but for the child who captured his imagination: La Bella Jennifer, with her golden hair that glowed so intensely it seemed like the sun shining in his world alone, and not any other. Ann Beattie's 'The Rock': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
I started up and looked around me, the moon was still shining, and the face of the heaven was studded with stars; I found myself amidst a haze of bushes of various kinds, but principally hazel and holly, through which was a path or driftway with grass growing on either side, upon which the pony was already diligently browsing. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
Neither man can be expected to catch a glimpse of the shining city on the hill. Times, Sunday Times
She is a shining example of how to organize your time.
The late winter sun was shining brightly and big waves hurled themselves against the rocks, sending sheets of white spume up along the cliffs.
Of two works by David Parsons, Shining Star is a be-happy piece for dancers in angelic white, against tricksy banks of lights.
Shining brightest in the scorching blue range of visible light, V391 Velorum boasts a surface temperature in the vicinity of 30 000 degrees Celsius. YubaNet.com
The sky was blue and the sun was shining .
The sun wasn't shining directly in through the windows, so it took her eyes a second to adjust to the dim room.
Shining like silver, but with flecks of color---scarlet and sky blue---in its luster. EVERVILLE
She has set a shining example of loyal service over four decades.
The sun was shining, birds were singing and the aromatic scent of flowers and trees hung in the air.
The best book that I have found for readability on the subject, and without losing me along the way with uber-florid prose about artists in smocks, mixing cerulean blue pigment on their paint spattered pallets as the fisherman hauled in pilchards at their feet, is The Shining Sands Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880-1930 by Tom Cross. A day in Cornwall
The brilliant pallid moon remaining in its equitable position, cascading above the rural community and shining down its radiance like a stage light, pinpointing the main theme of a play.
From an underground, thick, oblique rhizome, the short, green, succulent stipites arise, in a tufted form, and are crinite with brown, subulate, shining scales.
Your natural magnetism is shining like a beacon and beckoning others to you like moths to a flame. The Sun
Here comes one of them, in a long green robe of shining silky stuff, which is called samite; round his neck is a curiously cut collar of dark red cloth, and in his hand he carries a white hood. Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago
They moved through the basement, shining flashlights into faces.
And there was a shiningness against sky-black, a field of light, stars all around. Starways
That night, I saw her as the most beautiful lady in the room, her heart of gold shining and giving her a glowing radiance.
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain
I nestled down close to him, relieved in mind and body, and I was just thinking that though scraps of slaty stone and brashy earth were not good things for stuffing a feather-bed, they were, all the same, very comfortable for a weary person to lie upon, when I felt a hand laid upon my shoulder, and opening my eyes found the sun shining brightly and Patience Wins War in the Works
A glance at Sorais herself was enough to show that her mission was of no peaceful kind, for in place of her gold embroidered 'kaf' she wore a shining tunic formed of golden scales, and on her head a little golden helmet. Allan Quatermain
Only then do we move to Kashmir, setting of Shalimar itself — Shalimar being the ancient name for "the great Mughal garden … descending in verdant liquid terraces to a shining lake. Hobbes in the Himalayas
It was of the same color and material as the robe she wore previously, and the gold chain still dangled at her waist, diamonds winking and shining brighter than ever.
Head, thorax, and legs black; the two former closely punctured and thinly covered with short cinereous pubescence; the metathorax with the punctures running into transverse striæ in the middle; the sides of the thorax and the legs with a fine silky silvery-white pile; the tibiæ and tarsi strongly spinose; wings fusco-hyaline; abdomen entirely red, smooth and shining. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
A consummate professional and master decorator, he has never presented work that does not meet his own exacting standards of design, even if it means outshining everybody else's masquerade.
The laid-back, improvisational weaving of the parts bore the confident mark of their maker, a choreographer in his shining prime.
Beyond the last strip of rich color, there spread, shining delicately blue, a great field of flax; and then the dusky green of alfalfa and alsike for the Prescott of Saskatchewan
Sometimes, in the darkness, I'd spot the shining eyes of the stranger, so I'd try to cool things down.
Appollinaris is said of pollens, that is, shining, and ares, that is virtue. The Golden Legend, vol. 4
The ship has just had a facelift and is all polished wood panels and shining brass. Times, Sunday Times
No, there was nothing sublime and dolorous about Miss Manners; her face was round, cheery, and slightly puckered, with two little black eyes sparking and shining under dark brows, a nose she unblushingly called pug, and a big mouth with eminently white and regular teeth, which she said were such a comfort, for they never ached, and never would to the end of time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
Even if the sun is shining, chances are the puddles are ankle-deep.
But to the last he showed his magnanimity by honoring Cosmo Versál, and upon the latter's death he caused to be carved, high on the brow of the great mountain on which his voyage ended, in gigantic letters, cut deep in the living rock, and covered with shining, incorrodible levium, an inscription that will transmit his fame to the remotest posterity: The Second Deluge
One day, Nabil picked me up, his eyes shining.
Shining dragon eggs dotted the valley; all tinted with hues of gold, argent, azure, and green.
When he had seen those stalwart beasts in their distant pastures and watched as they moved slowly toward him, white faces shining against red coats, he felt a knife-thrust of pain as he recalled the vicissitudes he and his family had brought upon this noble breed. Centennial
For example, Na for sodium comes from the Latin natrium, and Au for gold comes from the Latin aurum, which means shining dawn. Elements
It was a glorious morning, the impartial sun shining over everything with a kind of benison.
The mammee-tree and the genipa, * with large and shining leaves, raise their branches vertically towards the sky; whilst those of the courbaril and the erythrina form, as they extend, a thick canopy of verdure. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
The most important room on view is the Harem, a compound of around 300 shining tiled chambers on several levels, connected by arcaded courts and fountain gardens.
Although the sun was shining it wasn't very warm.
I suddenly feel myself like a doll,acting all kinds of joys and sorrows.There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
As I looked, I saw the singular apparition of a moving "whimsey" at the top of Brierley Hill, dark and black against the shining surface. Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men
From my porthole window, I gazed in awe at the stunning contrast of the shining snowcapped Chugach Mountains against the blueness of the Gulf of Alaska.
She was cheerleading captain and a shining star in the school.
The nomad was buttoning on a deep green shirt over his wife-beater as he strode toward the landing, his nut-brown hair hanging in loose, shining waves to his shoulders. Etched in Bone
Waterfall greeted her with a solemn and purposeful symphony - muted strings and timpani rolls and, far off in the background, as though being created by spray and the rising mist, a limpid, shining, flute-like voice joined the music.
In the middle of the night, he awakes to see a shiningly spectral Anna Draper smiling at him, carrying a small case for her journey ahead. William Bradley: Mad Men : 'The Suitcase' Is Tougher Than Sonny Liston
So remember to keep your shoes shining if you want to be stylin'.
The cloud of opinions makes me look for some shining facts.
I glowered at him with angry tears of frustration shining in my eyes before I dropped my gaze and crossed my arms again.
CORVALLIS - For a brief if not-so-shining moment, Corvallis was Oregon's territorial capital. Undefined
The sun was shining, the clouds were puffy, white and scattered, and it was very balmy.
This shining metal was not raw iron but hard steel, which bent the softer wrought-iron blades of the Gauls.
Nara noticed that his pale face was sheened with sweat, shining in the dim green light of the controls.
The artist's light fantastic works are shining examples of the glories of glass.
He indicated a shining extrusion, which lay lengthwide along the bottom of the barrel of the riflelike weapon. The Battle of Forever
I walked over towards the windows and started to unravel the gold tasseled ropes so that the curtain would prevent any light from shining through.
Of course, you only "build awareness" by depicting events with some degree of accuracy, which is why the soaps often proudly announce that they collaborated closely with charities to ensure that Steve McFadden's portrayal of the dark spiral of addiction would be as harrowingly authentic as possible, especially the bit where he smashed through a door like Jack Nicholson in The Shining and burned the Queen Vic to the ground. Charlie Brooker | Complaining about the lack of realism in EastEnders is like moaning that Monster Munch crisps don't taste of monsters
The machine works by shining a light on subjects placed on its conveyor belt and the area of the shadow is measured.
They bring a mad burst of colour to the silver and green countryside of the Peak, with its superlush pastures, twinkly trout streams and shining limestone scars.
The shining television tower beaconed through the evening.
A beam of silvery light was shining through the old windows, the moss already creeping up and encircling them in emerald tendrils.
The slipper was a pretty one, made of pink plush with a dainty heel and a shining buckle set in a small pink bow. A Little Girl in Old Boston
He stepped off the high-heeled cothurnus, and came down into common life; he held out his great hearty arms, and embraced us all; he had a bow for all women; a kiss for all children; a shake of the hand for all men, high or low; he showed us Heavens sun shining every day on quiet homes; not gilded palace roofs only, or court processions, or heroic warriors fighting for princesses and pitched battles. On Charity and Humor
I suddenly feel myself like a doll,acting all kinds of joys and sorrows.There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
All about are bondsmen's scalps - bald pates, shaved and shining as this morning's spring-ish dew - while we bonded women wear our best and only sheath of wadmal cloth, gray and drab and of a sweaty woolen, with a flaxen kerchief tied around our brows and braids. Excerpt: The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh

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