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    lustrous


    1. The wall opposite the door was dominated by a wardrobe whose dark, lustrous woodgrain shone in counter-point to the amber tones of the floor, valise stand, and night table with its reading lamp and small book of verse at the bedside


    2. Behind him the lustrous, inlaid paneled cabinets, crimson velvet curtains, and brass knobs and fittings of the state room glowed warmly


    3. Your body has filled out to perfection and your hair glows with a lustrous sheen


    4. Her skin was like parchment and the yellow sheen made it look worse the hair that had been a lustrous blonde was now thin dull and lifeless she held her arms out to me and they were like twigs and her face looked like a skull


    5. Without warning, she stabbed it into her arm, injecting the lustrous substance into her


    6. Foraging fingers then claw at her soft milky flesh and tug at her long lustrous hair


    7. Food and water would soon be a priority for him, as the grassy plains relied on the rainy season to maintain its lustrous colour, but it was not due for another month at least


    8. purse and brushed her hair until it shone with a lustrous splendor of


    9. I placed it on the small table beside my chair, where it appeared to float on its slender golden stem above a lustrous hardwood pedestal


    10. It was a woman's head, small, delicately molded, superbly poised, with a high-piled mass of lustrous black hair

    11. At his words the long dark lashes lifted; the eyes opened and gazed up at him inscrutably, dark, lustrous, mystical


    12. She was clad only in a scanty shift; her golden hair fell in lustrous ripples about her white shoulders, and her wrists were bound behind her


    13. The wood has a naturally occurring oil that makes it bright and lustrous


    14. They had metallic caps on their ends, and shone with a lustrous blue


    15. The planet is so lustrous that it provides its own light for the moons, and also the common gas flares that hit the moons provide them with nutrients


    16. donned in the toga of flowing lustrous calcimine


    17. felt too fine, too < lustrous


    18. I have greatly loved the incredibly lustrous


    19. This lustrous specimen displays somewhat atypical divergent crystals of good size


    20. sported a complete set of limbs and a full head of long black, lustrous hair

    21. “I had never thought of taking a lover until now,” she said staring at his flawless translucent skin, his long lustrous hair, and lips the color of a rose quartz


    22. Perched in elaborate saddles they were suited in full battle armor, lustrous black, and they wore polished red helms styled as the head of a Montar


    23. Almost immediately he felt a dynamic surge of puissance coursing within himself and as the ceremony carried on he gradually became aware of lustrous contours highlighting everything around


    24. extinguished nearby conflagrations with just one sweep from his lustrous limbs!


    25. boots and keeping a head of lustrous


    26. You will have a healthy body and mind, the excretions will be scanty, the voice will be sweet, the face will be brilliant, and the eyes will be lustrous


    27. Her cropped, dyed hair, the colour of rust, had been left to flow in thick locks of lustrous blond


    28. me with her lustrous eyes, gently placed her hands on my shoulders and started kneading


    29. And the light mounts over the faces of all the tall blind houses, slides through a chink and paints the lustrous bellying crimson curtains; the green wine-glasses; the coffee- cups; and the chairs standing askew


    30. With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe, With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird,

    31. " No one could have said what caused the count's voice to vibrate so deeply, and what made his eye flash, which was in general so clear, lustrous, and limpid when he pleased


    32. It was the portrait of a young woman of five or six and twenty, with a dark complexion, and light and lustrous eyes, veiled beneath long lashes


    33. Does the thought-contracted brow of the local Sage or the lustrous eye of local Beauty inquire whose fortunes? We believe that Quintin Matsys was the BLACKSMITH of Antwerp


    34. Why have women such eyes of witchery? Gerty's were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and dark expressive brows


    35. Lolla was an attractive girl, with olive skin and lustrous dark hair, a generous mouth and


    36. Finally one of them, an elderly man, with a necklace and bracelet of great lustrous glass beads and the skin of some beautiful mottled amber-colored animal slung over his shoulders, ran forward and embraced most tenderly the youth whom we had saved


    37. " He buttoned his coat up to the very top, pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and marched on the bench


    38. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue eyes


    39. Another tear, larger and more lustrous, emerged from his other eye


    40. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their wearing swords by their sides

    41. All three of us were in the room with the door closed, and the insurgents danced oblivious to us, their senses drenched in lustrous sound and rhythm


    42. "And so," she said with that remarkable rich voice, that deep lustrous voice, "we Mayfairs of the inner circle, we have another sacrosanct secret, yet another breed of immortal come to us


    43. "You know what I want of you," she said in that deep lustrous voice, her words underscored with pain and determination


    44. Presently the chambers gave up their fair tenants one after another: each came out gaily and airily, with dress that gleamed lustrous through the dusk


    45. I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large


    46. It was not a photograph but an ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the exquisite mouth


    47. In one of the blind animals, namely, the cave-rat (Neotoma), two of which were captured by Professor Silliman at above half a mile distance from the mouth of the cave, and therefore not in the profoundest depths, the eyes were lustrous and of large size; and these animals, as I am informed by Professor Silliman, after having been exposed for about a month to a graduated light, acquired a dim perception of objects


    48. Nor smile so, while I write that this little black was brilliant, for even blackness has its brilliancy; behold yon lustrous ebony, panelled in king's cabinets


    49. At one’s feet springs the dark-green nettle, with its slender crown of flowers, while the broad-leaved burdock, with its bright-pink, prickly blossoms, overtops the raspberries (and even one’s head) with its luxuriant masses, until, with the nettle, it almost meets the pendent, pale-green branches of the old apple-trees where apples, round and lustrous as bone, but as yet unripe, are mellowing in the heat of the sun


    50. And that square package—toilet things; useless hairpins and unusable jeweled shell combs; and here, in tissue paper—oh, the forethought of Ned!—the very locks of hair of which she had shorn herself so recklessly, bound together by the hairdresser’s skill into a lustrous coil that had distinct possibilities



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    Synonyms for "lustrous"

    glistening glossy lustrous sheeny shining shiny bright burnished brilliant gleaming polished

    "lustrous" definitions

    made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow


    brilliant


    reflecting light