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Sentences ending with gleam

While the soldiers were shouting Kutuzov leaned forward in his saddle and bowed his head, and his eye lit up with a mild and apparently ironic gleam. [2]
As he heard the nurse's statement the veins had swelled in his smooth youthful forehead, his nostrils had quivered with convulsive agitation, his voice had lost all its sweetness, and his eyes had a sinister gleam. [10]
If you are not--" Mrs. Mandel continued to smile, but the smile had grown more perfunctory, and it had an icy gleam. [8]
She caught the gleam. [11]
Suddenly they remained fixed on the face of a statue of Apollo, which had been flung on to the barricade; and the longer they dwelt on the beautiful countenance of the god the more they sparkled with a clear transfigured gleam. [10]
Good was the fight--good, till a piteous dream Crept from some direful covert of despair; Showed me your look, that look so true and fair, Distant and bleak; for me no more to gleam. [11]

More example sentences with the word gleam in them

They gleam golden yellow, and will yield us snow-white meal when they are ground, and yet they grew from a rotting seed. [10]
The cheerfulness, with which she had met the dwarf, was insincere, and had resembled the brilliant colors of the rainbow, which gleam over the stagnant waters of a bog. [10]
Weathered grey cottages were scattered over the landscape, and dark copses of cedars, while oceanward the eye was caught by the gleam of a lighthouse or a lonely sail. [9]
A triumphant gleam was in Xavier's eyes, for he had hit the channel squarely. [9]
An answering gleam was in Victoria's, who had at that moment, by a singular coincidence, come out of the house. [9]
Mr. Isham's voice was firm, his face certainly betrayed no feeling, but a flitting gleam of satisfaction might have been seen in his eye. [9]
She drew herself up, a gleam in her eyes like the crest of a blue wave in a storm. [9]
Now and then through the parted clouds we got a glimpse of a mountain-side, or the gleam of a valley. [4]
She listened with the tension of terror to the sound of the steps which came straight towards her nearer and nearer, then the wanderer perceived the faint gleam of her white dress, and called out to her. [10]
Leaden clouds covered the sky, and only in the west was there a gleam of the departing winter day. [4]
He could see the place now: the lonely, wooden houses, the ramshackle saloon, the ugly, yellow gleam from the street lamps in a line along the glistening pavement; beside him, a towering hill of granite with a real estate sign, "This lot for sale. [9]
There was only the light of the fire, with the gleam of the slow-coming dawn. [11]
On the right the Guards were entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. [2]
I could see the gleam of the lamps on their bayonets and hear their soft tread. [4]
Then we lost the gleam of the knife, and the Arab shivered, and toppled over. [11]
The desert and the barren hills gleam painfully in the sun, around the Dead Sea, and there is no pleasant thing or living creature upon it or about its borders to cheer the eye. [5]
I can hardly tell you how thankful I was, when, after that dreary and almost despairing interval of utter darkness, some gleam of daylight became visible to him once more. [14]
Venters felt the sublimity of that marvelous vaulted arch, and it seemed to gleam with a glory of something that was gone. [13]
Gradually, as she stood gazing, she became aware of a beating of feet upon the snow; over her shoulder she caught the gleam of steel. [9]
By day a spray of eagle's feathers waved over his tepee, but the gleam of the brass lantern every night was like a sentry at the doorway of a monarch. [11]
From a lonely spot by the river, Fleda watched the westering gleam until it vanished, her soul alive to the melancholy beauty of it all. [11]
Away in the southwest, lifting themselves up in a gleam of the western sky, the Great Smoky Mountains loomed like a frowning continental fortress, sullen and remote. [4]
The way is round the curving bay by the sea; but so continuously built up is it, and so inclosed with high walls of villas, through the open gates of which the golden oranges gleam, that you seem never to leave the city. [4]
I preferred to remain with Mrs. Cooke, and it was with a gleam of hope at a possible deliverance from my late persecution that I watched the two disappear together through the hall and into the smoking-room. [9]
The oak floor reflected its gleam, and that of the electric lights; the shades were drawn; a slight odour of steam heat pervaded the place. [9]
He glanced up quickly, and for the first time she saw a gleam of malice in his eyes. [11]
Who would not pray that my last gleam of light and hope may be that of dawn and not of departing day? [6]
Look how the painted walls and columns gleam in the light, and what marvellous figures the shadows of the obelisks and sphinxes throw on the smooth yellow pavement! [10]
Happening to look over my shoulder, I saw the peak of Marcy gleam rosy in the sky (I can't help it that Marcy is fifty miles off, and cannot be seen from this region: these incidental touches are always used). [4]
The happiness was only a gleam, which departed and left him thoroughly, miserable. [5]
But the use of Vesuvius, after all, is to furnish us a background for the violet light at sundown, when the villages at its foot gleam like a silver fringe. [4]
In the gleam of the portico lanthorn he scrutinized me for several seconds. [9]
Occasionally a gleam of humour, a ray of idealism, lighted his practical grey eyes. [9]
She saw gleam of blue and spout of red. [13]
Look: What just now was the purple of this flower is now deep ruby red; what before was a violet gleam now is the richest amethyst. [10]
The last I noticed of her was a Spanish farewell wave of her beautiful white hand, and the gleam of her dazzling teeth as she smiled adieu. [4]
Beaumont, nor Fletcher, nor both together were ever, I think, visited by such a starry gleam as that stanza. [6]
His eyes, still narrowed, had in them a gleam of triumph that thrilled her. [9]
At sight of Mr. Vane she halted suddenly on the threshold, and a gleam of mischief came into her eye as she thrust her hand into her coat pocket. [9]
Indeed, a stranger might have thought that Mr. Temple was the host, and I saw Antoinette watching him furtively with a gleam of amusement in her eyes. [9]
It has cost me an effort to do it, but now that my life is on record I feel more reconciled to my lot, with all its possibilities, and among these possibilities is a gleam of a better future. [6]
There was a look of tenderness, for he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. [2]
It is a little gleam of comfort in the day for the most wearied portion of the community: I mean those who have nothing to do. [4]
The young Colonel listened gravely, though with a gleam now and then in his blue eyes. [9]
Through her parted lips white teeth gleam, and she smiles. [4]
His thick lower lip crept over in front of the upper one, A gleam stirred in the deep-set gray eyes. [9]
For the changing light of the valley reflected its gleam and its color and its meaning in the changing light of her eyes. [13]
While thus I lie, wrapped in a morning dream, Half waking, half asleep, 'mid poppies red, A fresh breeze cools my burning cheeks; a gleam Of light shines in the East. [10]
An occasional hooded lamp throws a precarious gleam on a long line of men carrying--so gently--stretchers on which lie the silent forms of rich and poor alike. [9]
What I saw in that momentary gleam I shall never whisper in mortal ears. [4]
Do I not honestly confess that I seek truth wherever I may, where I see even a gleam of hope of finding it? [10]
Marsh sat with his head down, but one could catch the malicious gleam of his eyes through his shaggy brows. [5]
Her face, within her sunbonnet, caught the reflected light, and the pink calico of her dress threw a glow over her cheeks and forehead, and gave a good gleam to her eyes. [11]
Once he saw her light robe, and its conspicuous gleam led him to the reflection, that it would be imprudent to conduct her to the humble fishing-village in that dress. [10]
Mark me, Richard," he said, a restless gleam coning into his dark eyes, "stirring times are here, and a chance for all of us to make a name. [9]
To this day he rises before me, a silent vision, and I see him as he was in that hour when he gave me a parting kiss on our threshold, in the pale gleam of early morning, solemnly glad and in his festal bravery. [10]
At any rate, he caught the gleam of the smile through the film of her veil, and laughed. [9]
Besides, careful scrutiny has just destroyed the last gleam of satisfaction with my own work. [10]
But suddenly the gleam of satisfaction, which for a moment had embellished his features, vanished, and with a sharp laugh he added: "And my mother! [10]
In another white gleam I saw Justine with her arms about the figure, holding it back from the abyss. [11]
He smiled a flinty smile that was more than inhuman, yet seemed to give out of its dark aloofness a gleam of righteousness. [13]
He was, in fact, looking towards the doorway, and the group on the porch were surprised to see a gleam of mirthful understanding start in his eyes. [9]
But presently her face came back all gravity, save a suspicious gleam of mirth in the eyes. [9]
Pistols and guns explode and knives gleam in our streets as in early times. [5]
We waited without comment while the smoke crept by degrees towards the little white spindle on the tip of the point, now and again catching a gleam of the sun's rays from off the glass of the lantern. [9]
There was a cold gleam in his eye. [11]
She wore a coat, which was open, and from time to time he caught the gleam of the moonlight on the knotted pearls at her throat. [9]
The sky was clouded over: there wasn't a gleam of light to show us where to step. [4]
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. [2]
Janet found this bewildering and yet through it seemed to shine for her a gleam of light. [9]
It would have been strange indeed if some tremor of sentiment had not been in his voice and some gleam of pride in his eye as he looked upon his son. [9]
A smile played at his lips, and his eyes had a gleam of raillery. [11]
And so soon as either of these came, a gleam as of starlight lighted up his old features, or, if it fell that the sovereign granted to him to attend him, it was broad sunshine that illumined it. [10]
Now there was another cry, a British cheer, a gleam of blue and red, a glint of steel rounding the corner at our left, and the Mahommedans broke away, with a parting lunge at the Somauli. [11]
The same spite and malice gleam in your eyes as in hers, and the same fury and greed for some victim, fire your flushed face! [10]
It was serrated, and between two spears of rock, directly in line with his position, showed a zigzag crack that at night would let through the gleam of sky. [13]
Breath of balm, and a languor falling Out of the gleam of a sunset sky; Peace, deep peace and a seraph's calling, Folded hands and a pleading cry. [11]
A gleam of a cigar lighted up the face, and I saw that it was Farrar. [9]

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