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Gleaming   /glˈimɪŋ/   Listen
Gleaming

adjective
1.
Bright with a steady but subdued shining.  Synonyms: agleam, nitid.  "The gleaming brass on the altar" , "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
noun
1.
A flash of light (especially reflected light).  Synonyms: gleam, glimmer.
2.
An appearance of reflected light.  Synonyms: gleam, glow, lambency.



Gleam

verb
(past & past part. gleamed; pres. part. gleaming)
1.
Be shiny, as if wet.  Synonyms: glint, glisten, glitter, shine.
2.
Shine brightly, like a star or a light.  Synonym: glimmer.
3.
Appear briefly.






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"Gleaming" Quotes from Famous Books



... he looked up from the gleaming line of gold-and-black lashes. An orderly had come quickly and almost noiselessly to him. "For you, Lieutenant," the man announced with a salute, holding out ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson

... surface, he found himself in the open lake, which was gleaming in the moonlight. Before him he beheld Herne clambering the bank, accompanied by his two favourite hounds, while a large white owl wheeled round his head, hooting loudly. Behind came the grisly cavalcade, ...
— Windsor Castle • William Harrison Ainsworth

... truth or in dream, before my time? Oh! You can guess. That perchance I may behold those for whom my heart burns with a quenchless, eating fire. And once I beheld—not the mother but the child, my child, changed indeed, mysterious, wonderful, gleaming like a star, with eyes so deep that in their depths my humanity seemed ...
— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard

... six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the surrounding wall. At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... leaping lightly over the prostrate soldier, a dagger gleaming in one hand and a pistol ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper


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