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Example sentences for "gleamings"

Lexicographically close words:
glazing; glazings; gleam; gleamed; gleaming; gleams; gleamy; glean; gleaned; gleaner
  1. Her gaze was wild and uncertain, and yet it was not absolutely without gleamings of a half-reviving intelligence.

  2. Still, gleamings of sudden, but intense ferocity did occasionally occur; and, at such instants, the countenance of this extraordinary being was truly terrific.

  3. This was uttered with gleamings of ferocity in the speaker's face, that rendered his countenance terrible.

  4. The light had changed; the high violet had gone from it, and it was shot with yellow gleamings like fugitive sunbeams.

  5. Save for these gleamings the light of the place, although crepuscular, was crystalline clear.

  6. Came, too, flitting shadowings of huge shapes, unnameable, moving swiftly beside our way; gleamings that thrust themselves through the veils like wheeling javelins of flame.

  7. It seemed to draw to itself the light, sending it back with gleamings of the gray-blue of the star sapphire, with pellucid azures and lazulis like clouded jades, with glistening peacock iridescences and tender, milky greens of tropic shallows.

  8. Notwithstanding all this, and the many gleamings he had had of the facts during their late intercourse on board the brig, Spike did not guess at the truth.

  9. This did not arise still from any gleamings of the real state of the case, but from the soreness with which his conscience pricked him, when he heard that his much-wronged wife was alive.

  10. Judith joined her sister with an air of dignity and solemnity it was not her practice to show, and, though the gleamings of anguish were still visible on her beautiful face, when she spoke it was firmly and without tremor.

  11. The grim freebooters regarded each other in doubt; the workings of nature manifesting themselves in the gleamings of even their stern and hardened visages.

  12. His people gathered, from the haughty gleamings that were flashing from the eyes of the Rover, as his foot once more touched the deck of his own ship, that the period of some momentous action was at hand.

  13. The Rover struggled, and struggled successfully, to keep down the risings of his temper; but the effort lent to his countenance gleamings of fierce and bitter scorn.

  14. The gleamings of some strangely contradictory passions crossed his features, and then his whole countenance changed to that look of bland courtesy which he most affected when addressing his captives.

  15. A critical observer might, however, have seen, or fancied that he saw, in the forced humility of his countenance, certain gleamings of a triumph that should not properly be traced to the fall of Quebec.

  16. The faint gleamings of hope vanished at once, and a lively consciousness of the desperate nature of their condition succeeded in every mind.

  17. It is probable that Spike himself had some similar gleamings of the difficulties of his position, for he looked a little troubled, though still resolute.

  18. Their perceptions of truth are not mere gleamings and streaks of divine radiance thrown across the obscurity of the mind, but all is light.


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