Gleams

Examples

• Now much disturbed, and dazzled with conflicting gleams of hope and dread, I looked at her for some explanation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Tublat's little, close-set, bloodshot, pig-eyes shot wicked gleams of hate as they fell upon the object of his loathing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• His face was very much agitated and very much flushed, and there were strong workings in the features, and strange gleams in the eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I shall strike across Halsell Common, and see the gleams on the wet grass. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The old church-tower gleams white almost as silver. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Holmes had recovered his equanimity, though I still seemed to detect gleams of amusement in his expression. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She felt no fear in speaking to him, though he hurt her arm with his gripe, and wild gleams came across the stupidity of his eyes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Rebecca's eyes shot out gleams of scornful humour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Little George visited her captivity sometimes and consoled it with feeble gleams of encouragement. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• To-day all this young verdure smiled clear in sunlight; transparent emerald and amber gleams played over it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And again, in the lake, shadowy red gleams hovered in reflection about the boat. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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