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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



... beside a high bank, and directly ahead of them, through the trees, the detective could see the lights of many gleaming fires; and he could also discern the shadowy forms of men grouped around ...
— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter

... gleaming rail that stretched across the western plains like an endless silver ribbon, the monorail express hurtled through the early dawn speeding its passengers to their destination. As the gleaming line of streamlined ...
— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell

... entirely covered with vivid blue hydrangeas in full bloom, giving the appearance of a tract of azure ground. Lower down the hillside, in little valleys, amidst oak and other English forest trees, a carpet is formed of cannas of many hues, interspersed with masses of gleaming white arum lilies, which grow here wild in very ...
— South African Memories - Social, Warlike & Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time • Lady Sarah Wilson

... Ah! Respite there is none. 'Tis Iemon! Iemon of Tamiya would kill Cho[u]bei!" He shouted and coupled the names in his despair. Fearful of discovery, of being overheard, Iemon did not delay. The gleaming weapon descended. Standing over the body Iemon showed uncertainty. He had some thought of search; even bent down over it. But he could not touch those foul rags. His nicety of feeling, almost womanlike—recoiled. Besides, what more had Iemon to do with the leper ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... silent even as Lord St. Jerome, was Miss Arundel; and yet her large violet eyes, darker even than her dark-brown hair, and gleaming with intelligence, and her rich face mantling with emotion, proved she was not insensible to the witty passages and the bright and interesting narratives that were sparkling and flowing ...
— Lothair • Benjamin Disraeli


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