She made no reply, but took from a pocket a bezant, and contrived to throw its yellow gleam in the sentinel's eyes. |
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I only saw him once, but the gleam in his eyes was as harsh and trenchant as that of a knife. |
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We catch a final gleam of the ocean at weston-super-mare and pass a long row of imposing hotels. |
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The sudden, wolfish gleam in his eyes had told her that he meant what he said. |
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A triumphant gleam was in Xavier's eyes, for he had hit the channel squarely. |
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The gleam of the torches flickered up gigantic colonnades, pedestalled on beautiful little groups of caryatids. |
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At this the Duke of perse came to his feet again, an angry gleam in his eyes. |
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And whether he wished or no, Peter was drawn to follow the figure, which he could make out by the phosphor gleam of it. |
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But this one gleam of light was speedily quenched, for Onesiphorus caught the prison fever, and died at Rome. |
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Only once did he show a gleam of his ancient form of those old hot, happy, pyjama days on the Equator. |
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But in an instant a rekindling gleam of the embers, hardly quenched, shot over the singer's face. |
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The whitish gleam was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion. |
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Ever and anon a rapid flash from a gas lamp, cast a bright gleam on their faces. |
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With a gleam beneath a dancing ray of sunlight, with a beauty spot of white foam here and there. |
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The lines of camp-fires begin to gleam from the transient Bedouin villages. |
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Finally, he strewed leaves, and bent grass, until no least gleam of metal betrayed the masked peril of the trail. |
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I saw a long, broad gleam of silvery white, my line cut through the water, and the old-timer started for his bed under the bank. |
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It was dark there except for the soft, yellow gleam of the binnacle lights. |
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Whenever Verlaine speaks of his childhood, there is a gleam like a bittersweet smile. |
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Among the rocks gleam ebony seeds of the blackberry lily, whose star of orange and umber is about to set. |
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The moonlight struck it, but did not gleam or shimmer on its black metal surface. |
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The flash of orange, the blaze of red, the gleam of green, were what she needed. |
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He moved proudly up the boreen, with a slow step, and the gleam of a high nature in his eyes. |
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Another gleam of light, bluer and more penetrating than its forerunner, lit the brown rafters of the cabane. |
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Tim took her up quickly on it, a gleam in his calculative eye, as if he saw a convincing way opening ahead of him. |
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Far down the line shone a cloudlet of white smoke and the gleam of brass through the dust. |
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She lay white, and as if suspended, in the crepuscular atmosphere of sunset mingling with the ashy gleam of the vast anchorage. |
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There was a daredevil gleam in her lamps which set my carbureter a-splutter. |
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Robbin-Steele paid him a reluctant compliment and let a gleam of appreciation flicker in his dead-fish eyes. |
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I would push my way through a tangle of sanicle, and beyond the trunk of a slim elm catch a gleam of white in the dusk. |
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The gleam, long continued, had given us full time to scrutinise the ground. |
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The Malays at fan-tan by the gleam of the slush-light under the awning grew silent. |
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The fecund sap, their generative virtue, escapes and diminishes at every gleam. |
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The horse gave us a gleam of his neck as he pawed a forefoot, just reined in. |
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Their eyes would meet and Colfax's would gleam with a savage but friendly fire. |
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Once I thought I saw the fuscous gleam of a red fox stealing silently through the brush. |
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The gleam of the sea through the trees turned garnet's thoughts to bathing. |
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How black is the great tower, and how bright the gleam of arms upon the wall! |
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The thing came to Hazlitt without words, with a gleam and a flurry as of snow. |
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At this, slyboots rushed off in such a haste, and with such a wicked gleam in his eye, that I smelt mischief immediately. |
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A gleam of white through the snake fence against the pink of the clover caught his eye. |
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The little man glanced up at my cousin with a humoursome gleam in his eyes. |
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But the noble son of Iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk. |
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In the street there is no gleam of sheep's-eying or any manner of indecorum. |
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The storm cloud began to throw out loose masses of flying scud, through which the moon now and again shone out in fitful gleam. |
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Armorer spoke with suave politeness, but there was a cynical gleam in his eye. |
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Then, a gleam of resolve or cunning came into his face, and the next instant he was at his suavest. |
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He racked his brain for a stray gleam of retrospect, but it was not forthcoming. |
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The girl grasps the hideous symbol, a gleam of intelligence lighting up her swarth but beautiful face. |
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As they rounded a corner, they caught the red gleam of a tail-light disappearing at the next turn. |
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His head was lowered, but Conan caught the weird gleam of eery eyes regarding them unblinkingly. |
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The colouring was more soft and Roman, with the dull gleam of pearls, a distinguished pallor, morbidezza. |
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Then she caught the gleam of a movie camera lens half-hidden behind an awning. |
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They saw the gleam of her white hand as she stretched it out to take the victual. |
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I'll move, and I suppose when I get there old Jackson'll vouchsafe another gleam. |
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There was the gleam of old gold and the brilliant sparkle and flash of fire. |
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In the very centre of the deep shade of a clump of trees, I saw the gleam of a waterbuck's horns. |
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In the hands of some he saw the white gleam of sapodilla axe handles. |
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It all seemed dark and drear, and not a gleam of sunshine in sight. |
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She opened her eyes with a gleam of eagerness to hear the words. |
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A shallow pool in the guttered depression of an old wheel rut, as from a recent rain, met his eye with a crimson gleam. |
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It was whispered by those who peered after her that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior. |
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There was no gleam of life, not even in his stone-cold eyes. |
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There came a vixenish gleam into the old woman's faded eyes. |
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She caught the sparkle of a little cascade, the gleam of a streamlet. |
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It had even thrown its gleam, in the sufferer's bard extremity, across the verge of time. |
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The boy looked up with his first gleam of interest in mundane things. |
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He saw the gleam in the dog's eyes, fixed upon him unwaveringly. |
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Lit with a gleam of the sun the window stared up at them blindly. |
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Mr. bodge noted with satisfaction the gleam of interest in capital's eyes. |
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He leaned back in his chair with drooping eyelids and a tolerant smile, basking in this sudden gleam of sunshine. |
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They carry tomahawks and knives, and their naked bodies gleam with paint and oil. |
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She was smiling now, and he caught a gleam of mischief in her eyes. |
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He smiled ever so faintly as he saw the covetous gleam in her eyes. |
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He was a handsome fellow, his face wore a smile, his mustaches were curled up at the ends, and there was a little dancing gleam in his eye. |
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At that quite a new gleam seemed to irradiate his good-looking clay. |
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It was a starry night, with a bright gleam along the eastern edge of the sky, where the moon was soon going to show herself. |
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Meanwhile, Barnes watched him with a cunning gleam in his deep-set eyes. |
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The Spaniard was halted by the gleam of a derringer in Hough's hand. |
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But that transitory gleam of the true animalism of these monsters was enough. |
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The handmade wall covering in the living room is stonelike in texture with a slight metallic gleam. |
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Then he caught sight of Fiona and the gleam of the red bracelet. |
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The gleam of firelight upon their bodies, and the waiting drummer. |
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Then she fluttered a glance at him in which there was a gleam of mockery. |
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The dawn from behind the mountains put a gleam into his unwinking eyes. |
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Passed, like a gleam of lightning over the west in the night-time. |
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At that dreadful moment her beauty shone out again with a gleam of its old glory. |
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An instant gleam as of recognition hovers in the glazing eyes. |
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No, her head was fallen, and he saw the gleam of her hand at her breast. |
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Goddess in a golden hall, Fairest maids around her gleam, Wine-fumes of the festival Daily waft her into dream. |
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Her hair was uncovered and the sun's rays brought a golden gleam from its brown meshes. |
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Sweep a soft, shimmery gold shadow onto your eyelids, lightly dragging the brush toward the inner corners to get that gorgeous gleam. |
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Then his face stiffened, the light changed to a gleam of malevolence. |
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Reflected from manana, a single gleam of light gave him further warning. |
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No man with a gleam of humour could have kept a mask of grimness. |
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Where did Guido see the golden hair of St. Michael gleam upon the wind? |
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Perhaps they could only distinguish the gleam of the white metal. |
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There was no light except the gleam of the fire upon the windowpane. |
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Once a gleam of scarlet from the guidon flashed on the sight. |
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The scattered isles Uprose, black-looming o'er the tranquil deeps, Where the reflected heavens wanly showed A lingering gleam. |
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We saw the shimmering slaty gleam of their skins between the tree-trunks, and their heads undulating high above the brush-wood. |
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I caught the pinpoint gleam of what might have been a knife in her hand. |
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The stems of pines, hemlocks, and oaks almost gleam like iron on the excited eye. |
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At the summit was a circular orifice, by which I had caught the slight gleam of light, evidently daylight. |
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The red gleam o'er the mountains Goes wavering from sight, And the quiet moon enhances The loveliness of night. |
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Dan looked to see the answering gleam from the Inn at the red oak. |
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Oh, it is an unhoped-for gleam of sunshine in my dark night. |
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Seeing the wholesome effects of her treatment upon these culprits, Rose felt that she might relent and allow them a gleam of hope. |
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The awful creature in my grasp mumbled inarticulately for a moment, then a sudden gleam of cunning shot into those hideous, close-set eyes. |
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He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. |
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Rocke flinched before the steady gaze of those cold enquiring eyes, in which he fancied, too, that a gleam of malice shone. |
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In the gleam the black figure of Andrea was visible stooping to the water. |
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Babson looked down at Mr. Tutt with a significant gleam in his eye. |
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He waited, perfectly still, and at last saw a gleam of white passing soundlessly through the undergrowth. |
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There is hope of a sparkling river, of willows and lush water-meadows but there is no gleam of water. |
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In a second he heard the click of a revolver, and saw the gleam of a polished barrel, pointing straight at his head, and the dusky form of a short, thick-set man facing him. |
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Never had that lady seemed a more tempting subject than at that moment, seated there like some sensuous Madonna, with the gleam of the fading day enriching her splendid color. |
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I descended cautiously to the lower regions, and landed in the back-kitchen, where a gleam of fire, raked compactly together, enabled me to rekindle my candle. |
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I declined joining their breakfast, and, at the first gleam of dawn, took an opportunity of escaping into the free air, now clear, and still, and cold as impalpable ice. |
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The gleam of the electric light flashed across the stone floor and rested for a moment upon a trapdoor, which Meekins had already stooped to lift. |
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As he did so, the gleam of a golden trophy caught the outlaw's eye. |
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His lamp and Ned's had small hooks on them, so they could be carried in the upper coat pocket, showing a gleam of light and leaving the hands free for use. |
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From the top of this bowlder the gleam of something bright caught my eye, and, raising my hand, I found that it came from the silver cigarette-case which he used to carry. |
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He could also, by the gleam of bayonets visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow lines of artillery with green caissons. |
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Swiftly moving clouds only now and then allowed a gleam to light up any object, whether ugly or beautiful, that happened to stand within its golden shower. |
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There was a gleam of something akin to insanity in her full, intense eyes. |
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Here and there, a red and fiery star struggled through the drifting vapor, furnishing a lurid gleam of brightness to the dull aspect of the heavens. |
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When I saw them approaching those wretched remains, heard them snarling at one another and caught the gleam of their teeth, a frantic horror succeeded my repulsion. |
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We set it in the sun, and then shut the light out of the room, and it shone awfully out of the depths of its own brightness, with a moony gleam, in the dark. |
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In the center of it was a huge carven bowl, with the glistening gleam of ferns and the red and purple of rare orchids, glowing from a light hidden somewhere in their midst. |
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The successive mountain ranges appeared like dim shadows, and the setting sun cast on the woodland a yellow gleam, much like that produced by the flame of spirits of wine. |
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When he ventured to blink hastily, he derived some moral support from the green gleam of the starboard light shining feebly upon the flight of rain and sprays. |
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It throws its unobtrusive tinge throughout the room, with a faint ruddiness upon the walls and ceiling, and a reflected gleam upon the polish of the furniture. |
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