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    1. She turned to smile at him with a dangerous gleam in her eye


    2. Number two hitter corning to the plate, with an evil gleam in his eyes


    3. The gleam of a thousand suns


    4. an impious gleam in eyes that seemed to move of their own


    5. Had they looked over their shoulders they would have seen a mad gleam in his eye and a bucket of popcorn on his lap, and Archibald would have heard him chuckling quietly to himself as he came face to face with the results of his curse from all those years ago


    6. The experts sat and watched each contestant, and as all such experts are trained to do, they sat there in po-faced silence until, with a flourish and a wicked gleam in their eyes, it came to the time for judgement


    7. would have seen a mad gleam in his eye and a bucket of popcorn


    8. with a flourish and a wicked gleam in their eyes, it came to the time


    9. malicious gleam in the eyes of the smaller of the two


    10. ’ A gleam came into his eye and he directed a

    11. Whether it was the light of Minos or a trick of his mind, Alec swore that he saw a gleam appear in Solo Ki's dull lifeless eyes


    12. Clothier announced that a play off would be held but Morton had seen a sudden gleam in Seaboy’s eye


    13. To his left, X’ander kept pace; a knife at the ready in each hand, a gleam in his white eyes


    14. She walked with her head held high and a determined gleam to her eyes


    15. don’t bring that gleam in your eyes


    16. 'You seem to be enjoying the country?' There was a bemused gleam in his eyes, but he wasn't being sarcastic


    17. With fixed bayonets, his guard was formed strongly on either side, and had the wild passion of those frenzied people, kept back by the gleam of steel, been allowed full play, they would have wreaked a fearful vengeance on the unhappy occupants of the prisoners' litters


    18. Diane looked upon him with sympathy, noting the irrepressible gleam in Bru’s eyes


    19. “No, she wouldn’t appreciate that,” he acknowledged, picking up on the gleam in his sardonic, icy blue eyes as they were reflected in the bathroom mirror


    20. ‘Some, but not many,’ he replied with a gleam in his eye?

    21. Foreman looked up with a little gleam in her eye


    22. He had the oddest little gleam in his eye


    23. He looked up from the map with a gleam in his eye


    24. its black gleam attracted the girls


    25. At least, not the guy with that gleam in his eyes that I’d seen before


    26. Amonas smiled, greatly pleased and mildly surprised both for their luck as well as for the gleam in Hilderich’s eyes


    27. ” He said it with a gleam in his eye


    28. He will be gone for days now, Sim thought inconsequentially, then unexpectedly caught Weo’s eye with a laughing gleam in it


    29. “Our guest here tonight is the author of, ‘De-bunking the Sasquatch Myth,’ Jesus told the audience with a sardonic gleam in his eye


    30. Every leaf, every flower, every blade of grass seemed to shine and gleam by a Light that came from within them

    31. But one child would always say, How will this end, how can this end, and scare away the flicker and the gleam


    32. Images of Elior’s summer blue eyes that would never again gleam and twinkle at her


    33. When an opportunity came up to demonstrate, you could see the gleam in their eyes


    34. I never knew they were so close, but I can see it now, in the gleam of tears in her eyes and the trembling of her fingers


    35. “Her!” David says, and tears gleam in his eyes


    36. gleam caught his eye


    37. His eyes gleam with tears as he says, “I love you, too, Beatrice


    38. Meredith pricked up his ears a trifle and a gleam flashed into his dreamy dark eyes


    39. The vat began to shine and gleam, as if with an internal light, at Orphenn’s


    40. by a gleam in their eyes, caused by Mako infusion

    41. “Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you before I kill you then, will you?” my brother said as he turned around looking at me with a gleam in his vampire eye’s from the opposite end of my room


    42. 1 And for all the Heavenly troops I imaged the image and essence of fire, and my eye looked at the very hard, firm rock, and from the gleam of my eye the lightning received its wonderful nature, which is both fire in water and water in fire, and one does not put out the other, nor does the one dry up the other, therefore the lightning is brighter than the sun, softer than water and firmer than hard rock


    43. 1 And for all the Heavenly troops I imaged the image and essence of fire and my eye looked at the very hard firm rock and from the gleam of my eye the lightning received its wonderful nature which is both fire in water and water in fire and one does not put out the other nor does the one dry up the other therefore the lightning is brighter than the sun softer than water and firmer than hard rock


    44. Locking eyes with Amori, she noticed a gleam there that hadn’t been there before, and that beads of perspiration rolled down the sides of her face


    45. Locking eyes with Amori she noticed a gleam there that had not been there previously


    46. When I made it clear to her that I was not going to go with her, is when I saw this gleam in her eyes


    47. As Simon looked on, Johan lifted a curved sword high into the air so that the last of the dying green fire made it gleam, and brought it crashing down on the bleak bones of the soldier nearest to him


    48. troop starting a slow descent, the gleam of several spear points reflecting the early morning


    49. His eyes gleam yellow, like a wolf’s at night, and the shape of his skull is clear under his pale skin


    50. Then, high up in the corner above my head I did see a gleam of light! Despite my painful side, I climbed on top of a stack of crates and found I could easily touch the glowing area with my fingers












































    1. their firm young bodies gleamed in the candle light, they adopted poses and positions


    2. Paintwork gleamed and everything had an air of smartness about it – most unexpected


    3. Jack’s gleamed with


    4. The brass gleamed like it had on her first day on the job all


    5. "We'll get home safely, you'll see!" The tiny white pebbles gleamed in the moonlight, and the children found their way home


    6. A pile of coins gleamed in his outstretched hand, then suddenly, the coins leapt into the air, scattering throughout the room


    7. From the survivors’ minds he gleamed scattered images of what had happened


    8. And she had a wily, mischievous look on her face, a devilish sparkle in her eyes, and a big, playful grin with long white teeth that gleamed in the sun


    9. shaggy hound on the trail whose golden eyes glowed and gleamed in the darkness


    10. The river gleamed in the mid-day sun as the Skimmer landed on a pad near the center of town

    11. “Spare a thought for old Dawson then there’s no one here to keep me company it’s so dark sometimes and I get so lonely that’s why you’re here Billy Boy you can join me for eternity”, and his good eye gleamed maliciously


    12. Shrubs with their deep green, shiny leaves gleamed in freshly scrubbed splendor


    13. The thick linoleum around the edge of the red and gold rose-patterned carpet gleamed


    14. ” Helen looked at me and I could see the love that gleamed in her eyes as she replied


    15. Hostility gleamed in those eyes


    16. His bald head gleamed in the torchlight


    17. I told her it was looking superb, and she gleamed with delight


    18. The muddy stream gleamed in the fierce sunlight, while here and there among the trees the white fever mist hung in thin wreaths, of which, if the white man breathe, he shall surely die


    19. the excited lad held aloft the lucky raisin in which gleamed the golden


    20. Leland and Eli had polished their leather and shined their swords until they gleamed

    21. " His teeth gleamed as his smile broadened even further


    22. Something gleamed white and bony from beneath a shrub covered in flowers


    23. His lumpy head, with the exception of a swipe of long black hair combed sideways over the top, and the coke-bottle glasses as well, gleamed in the overhead fluorescent lights


    24. As if sensing my thoughts, her eyes gleamed impishly over the table


    25. His eyes gleamed, but the rest of him was just a shadow


    26. Salmsoni’s bald pate gleamed dully in the soft strip lighting, the shine of his smoky orange pince-nez hiding his eyes, which were a piercing red with black vertical slits


    27. The drops that splashed up around the horses’ legs gleamed and glittered like small crystals


    28. One beady black pupil gleamed at Russell, the other stared into the pupil of his alien neighbour, and rising from a spot above either eye, antennae swayed and twitched


    29. Somewhere down there, something gleamed white


    30. His blue eyes gleamed at her and without further he let a hand slide down over her cheek and smiled

    31. His eyes flashed and gleamed as if a thousand little stars were in them


    32. Their eyes gleamed in competition with the seven-star on the many pennants


    33. His eyes gleamed in the darkness


    34. rather burly; his jewelry gleamed through the light tints in the windows, and his


    35. The silver grey fur caught some light from the new moon and gleamed when the kitten made his wild capers and beat his paws after the fleeing insects


    36. In front of him, a column of Light gleamed reaching from the ground and as far up into the sky as she could see


    37. They turned when they heard her come and the sun gleamed in their coats of mail and swords


    38. gleamed in the moonlight


    39. Una's little pearl-pure face gleamed up at her beseechingly from the manse pew


    40. His crystal armor gleamed in the moonlight

    41. On the right the lights of Ingleside gleamed through the maple grove with the genial lure and invitation which seems always to glow in the beacons of a home where we know there is love and good-cheer and a welcome for all kin, whether of flesh or spirit


    42. Far on the western hill gleamed a paler but more alluring star


    43. Alec Davis' tall monument gleamed whitely through the gloom


    44. Down the slope and over the trees, the city of Pravik gleamed


    45. Ishvara gleamed at her in caution, but I had caught the mental scolding in Ishvara’s eyes and had placed my hand firmly on Jiva’s arm restraining her from moving off the bed


    46. As the liner approached very early in the morning, the port named Maunganui gleamed beautifully with its lights


    47. Birch bark gleamed silvery white


    48. gleamed over successive C with E (F flat) lifetimes


    49. But suddenly Stephen's hands began to shake as she held the map, and her eyes gleamed brilliantly as she looked up at the others


    50. Their eyes gleamed, and their legs bobbed at the idea of













































    1. A bearskin rug stares slack jawed and empty eyed from its place on the gleaming marble floor


    2. The creature withdrew his right hand from his jacket pocket to reveal a slender, grey-brown paw, talons gleaming like black diamonds in the moonlight


    3. He had the worst hangover in the whole wide world and he felt physically sick as he remembered the state of chaos that he and his wife had left behind them the previous evening, but when he opened the kitchen door he was blinded by the dazzle from the work tops and the gleaming surfaces of the kitchen appliances


    4. We sloped through the pass, from time to time tantalized by a vision of the cerulean pure wet sea, deep and gleaming in the distance


    5. As soon as she saw his eyes go there, it magically became the gleaming fall it always was, but she had arrived in his universe with hair that had been on the bottom of an encounter or two


    6. gleaming floor, and the perception that her heart was


    7. They walked through the house, admiring the gleaming floors and repainted walls


    8. This confused Tipene, so he opened his eyes, and staring him in the face was the teddy-bear, with very gleaming, very alive eyes


    9. He thought he could see the gleaming towers thrusting out of the rolling green hills


    10. His wife and son had the same smile—wide gleaming teeth

    11. " Beth’s green eyes were gleaming with excitement, as Emma became aware of what was being said


    12. face of the distantly gleaming mountains


    13. Then they charged children with stout sticks and from out of the bushes huge Buffer beasts with tusks gleaming and teeth grinding


    14. he had two good eyes, with a fierce hatred gleaming from them


    15. A handful of gleaming coins and a warm smile would be more than enough to convince the carriage driver to take her most of the way - just a bit further beyond the point at which the road split and the way upward to Meridia’s famed shrine came into view


    16. But a treacherous stone, one obscured by the gleaming white dust and DRAFTChapter 8 147


    17. Yes, he had a smile full of gleaming teeth, but Nerissa simply couldn’t see him as the sort of seducer who’d carry off a fair young woman’s heart


    18. Off to the side, she thought she noticed a gleaming object hidden partially by animal skins and bones


    19. His passing glances at the gleaming gold metal parts along the interior became more frequent, and the wheels began to turn in his mind, keeping time with the limbs of the machi-nery


    20. To dream that your teeth is sparkling or gleaming signifies happiness and fulfilled wishes

    21. “Yes …yes! ” Galmar’s approval bellowed forth in that gravelly voice, lips curling in a wild grin and baring gleaming teeth


    22. Rows of gleaming teeth and glowing eyes alike shone and flashed


    23. The house that one day would belong to Danny, was gleaming in the moonlight


    24. He did not see the gilded flag of the purple lion enter Saparen, or the Thanes, their armor gleaming in the rising sun, cut through the line of ern


    25. The staircase was a grand, ornate fixture in gleaming oak


    26. Ferns sparkled with dew and trees held their limbs to the sky, leaves gleaming with the early morning moisture


    27. Their journey through the Palace was one of mixed feelings of nervousness and awe at the wonders that lay sprawled wall to wall – paintings of battles and ceremonies of kings, queens, heroes, and legends; tapestries; polished armour standing with spears or swords resting at an angle; mirrors as tall as the thirty-feet-high plaster ceilings worked with golden cornices of grapes and vines or paintings of angels flying through blue skies with white clouds; large chests bound in brass or steel or gold; polished furniture of oak, pine, or redwood; tables; stands; dressers and cabinets; ornaments; artefacts; statues of red-and-blue marble or white stone or gold-and-silver, including dragons and other mythical beasts – all arranged in perfect order and all glistening and gleaming as a result of meticulous dusting and polishing from the hundreds of servants in black livery slashed with red and gold or red and blue who walked busily about the hallways amongst the guards, soldiers, and Guardians who stood at every corner and staircase


    28. lay it gleaming on the altar, as his offering to the Holy Child


    29. Before he could answer Darcie tugged his elbow and moved him toward an enthusiastic group of ladies and began introducing him to their gleaming smiles


    30. How is it you have altogether become like the heathen, With the vanity of the world gleaming in your eye,

    31. The only sign that a few moments ago, a gleaming Jaguar had stood in the front yard was the cloud of dust now gently settling onto the ground


    32. “Mark,” came the response, white teeth gleaming behind the moustache


    33. As the elevator’s gleaming brass doors closed behind, Sylvia looked around the smartly decorated outer room


    34. Smiling cheefully, being careful not to stagger a little, she walked arm-in-arm with Tony out to his nifty little MG, its purple-and-black color tones gleaming in the lights


    35. He recalled watching her emerge, naked and streaming water, long hair falling over those gleaming breasts, and the triumph in her eyes as she gazed upon the moonstone in her small palm


    36. Looked down at his moonstone, gleaming in the palm of her hand


    37. With his dark hair combed back to slick and gleaming, he selected for the day a new brand of cologne, which he splashed on liberally, not for additional sex appeal, of which he had considerable, but because he liked the freshness it gave to his skin and the faint whiffs he caught from time to time throughout the day


    38. He acceded and the armies marched off, gleaming in their metal armor, the blessings of the Castigator sung over the Southern Gates of Pyr


    39. ’ The others were clustered at the far end of a large oval table carved from a single piece of onyx, gleaming dully and reflecting bizarre shapes in the hum of voices


    40. The news report showed Nutter getting off his gleaming Fat Boy Harley onto Queensland soil

    41. Nutter rode his gleaming Fat Boy Harley, holding the handle bar with his right hand


    42. Searching around the group, I found the twins’ gleaming blue eyes, staring at me with raised eyebrows


    43. Light was at a premium, its sources the by-products of the industrious machines: sparks like lightning, hot rivers of metal, red and yellow fires and blue-hot flames; green and violet beams of light against stark gray metals, the mirror sheens of gleaming new surfaces reflecting everything, multiplying their intensity in a maze of light


    44. "Count it again, Whitey," said a gleaming Bones


    45. Her quick interruption of herself had caught his attention fully and his already intense gaze was now almost gleaming


    46. He paced around the office with hands behind his back and stopped for a while to take a look outside; he opened the window blinds and gleaming white sunlight filled the room


    47. He looked at Nicole sideways then but he was smiling gently, his eyes gleaming softly


    48. See, Adu and the Swede are partners, so to speak,” she said with a gleaming smile and fluttered her eyes only for Ethan to see, before she threw her head backwards to gaze at the still faint stars in the sky


    49. ’ Russell dipped his hand into the gleaming blue water of the twelve-metre pool


    50. gleaming chain around her neck, and confirmed that it was okay to let Junya in






































    1. The water picked up faint gleams from the thin moon and the stars, and I was able to get oriented


    2. Passing Akusirem the sun set, and the rest of that day's journey had to be done in total darkness in the thick forest, though it was full moon, and there were occasional gleams through the trees


    3. Her ear gleams when she moves her head—it is pierced from top to bottom


    4. And on the left side, a young man with dark hair that gleams in the fluorescent light—Peter


    5. Ruby-red gleams of sunset fell through the arching boughs


    6. The high-piled burnished mass of hair that caught the torchlight in dull bronze gleams quivered slightly


    7. Heather's car now gleams in the weak afternoon sunshine where Stef had washed the mud off and then he and Simon had polished and waxed it, making it look almost new


    8. Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,


    9. And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,


    10. “It would have been one glorious day, Franklin, because what you’d be looking at is Eve and Adam, in that order, don’t you think? In time, there would be more and more gleams

    11. In that case, casual gleams of memory, giving us sudden, abrupt, momentary revelations of the past, are precisely the phenomena we would expect to meet with


    12. In the still when dawn gleams on its face


    13. The Harbour gleams with gold mid soft grey-blue


    14. Evidently she thinks its fitfulness, its gleams of sunshine and its uneasy cloudings over, are just a passing thing and that it soon will settle down again to what it was before


    15. ” Snow crunched under our boots as we walked up the steps and inside to a roaring fire that crackled and hissed, casting gleams of light on the polished redwood floor


    16. We had been for a walk after tea through the beechwood, up a hill behind it to the signal station, along a footpath on the edge of the cliff with blue gleams of sea on one side through a waving fringe of blue and purple flowers, and the ryefields on the other


    17. " Snow crunched under our boots as we walked up the steps and inside to a roaring fire that hissed and crackled, casting gleams of light on the polished redwood floor


    18. The parson read this aloud, and his eyes, otherwise so mild, woke into gleams of enthusiasm


    19. After all, what he most loved in her was that she was, so miraculously, a child; a child with gleams of wisdom flickering like a lizard's tongue in her mouth, and who even when she was silly was silly also somehow in gleams--gleams of silver and sunshine


    20. There were gleams of sun; and though the wind still blew, the rain held off except for occasional spatterings

    21. "This one!" The man points at a black, metal box in the corner, and for a moment victory gleams in his eyes before he realizes that telling someone where you keep your money is probably not the best safety procedure


    22. and sent radiant gleams across the city


    23. There were many gleams of what must have been glass and steel and aluminium


    24. As the road-mender plied his dusty labour, and the hail-clouds, rolling away, revealed bright bars and streaks of sky which were responded to by silver gleams upon the landscape, the little man (who wore a red cap now, in place of his blue one) seemed fascinated by the figure on the heap of stones


    25. The shadows, gleams, up under the leaves of the old sycamore-trees,


    26. Of such, and fitful as they, I sing--with gleams from them would


    27. He was standing in front of the counter, lit up by the gleams of the red bottle, and was saying—


    28. They looked over miles and miles of wooded country, and country with gleams of pasture


    29. On the river levels were flat gleams of flood water


    30. All was darkness, but such utter darkness that after several minutes, my eyes were still unable to catch a single one of those hazy gleams that drift through even the blackest nights

    31. It was an immense forest, huge mineral vegetation, enormous petrified trees linked by garlands of elegant hydras from the genus Plumularia, those tropical creepers of the sea, all decked out in shades and gleams


    32. It was, however, easy to be seen, by the occasional gleams that shot across his swarthy visage, that it was only necessary to arouse his passions, in order to give full effect to the terrific device which he had adopted to intimidate his enemies


    33. The last gleams of twilight were melting into night


    34. We kept our hands over our eyes, which were utterly saturated with those concentric gleams that swirl before the retina when sunlight strikes it too intensely


    35. A few morning gleams infiltrated the liquid strata


    36. Mockery gleams in his dark eyes


    37. A few of the graver and more attentive warriors, who caught the gleams of anger that shot from the eyes of the young chief in passing, followed him to the place he had selected for his meditations


    38. All was a-shake and a-shiver -- glints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble


    39. At this hour the Crixa was all green shade, with red gleams of sun that winked through the moving leaves


    40. in her eyes there were gleams of light that betrayed that she understood perfectly and precisely as he did what hope he might have

    41. He saw a couple of ships at anchor upon the sheet of water reflecting the last gleams of light, and Sotillo's steamer moored to the jetty


    42. And the low sobs of Giselle Viola, kneeling at the end of the bed, her gold hair with coppery gleams loose and scattered over the Capataz's feet, hardly troubled the silence of the room


    43. Yellow gleams of lamplight showed in the stores and houses which remained in the village, but they were few


    44. I had the full command of my senses; and my eyes became used to the darkness, which was lit, here and there, by fitful gleams


    45. The black procession, when dismounted, looked the larger for the smallness of the churchyard; the heavy human faces and the black draperies shivering in the wind seemed to tell of a world strangely incongruous with the lightly dropping blossoms and the gleams of sunshine on the daisies


    46. They slept all closely huddled together, and took it in turns to watch; and when it was Bilbo's turn he would see gleams in the darkness round them, and sometimes pairs of yellow or red or green eyes would stare at him from a little distance, and then slowly fade and disappear and slowly shine out again in another place


    47. There were two tiny gleams of light behind, or for a moment he thought he saw them, but at once they slipped aside and vanished


    48. Gleams of sun were striking through the hurrying clouds, and the forest now looked less grey and drear


    49. Something metal gleams in her hands—a lock pick set, Ciere realizes


    50. The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the dents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky




























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    Synonyms for "gleam"

    gleam gleaming glow lambency glimmer glint glisten glitter shine sparkle beam flash spark ray shimmer

    "gleam" definitions

    an appearance of reflected light


    a flash of light (especially reflected light)


    be shiny, as if wet


    shine brightly, like a star or a light


    appear briefly