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1. She turned to smile at him with a dangerous gleam in her eye
2. Number two hitter corning to the plate, with an evil gleam in his eyes
3. The gleam of a thousand suns
4. an impious gleam in eyes that seemed to move of their own
5. Had they looked over their shoulders they would have seen a mad gleam in his eye and a bucket of popcorn on his lap, and Archibald would have heard him chuckling quietly to himself as he came face to face with the results of his curse from all those years ago
6. The experts sat and watched each contestant, and as all such experts are trained to do, they sat there in po-faced silence until, with a flourish and a wicked gleam in their eyes, it came to the time for judgement
7. would have seen a mad gleam in his eye and a bucket of popcorn
8. with a flourish and a wicked gleam in their eyes, it came to the time
9. malicious gleam in the eyes of the smaller of the two
10. ’ A gleam came into his eye and he directed a
11. Whether it was the light of Minos or a trick of his mind, Alec swore that he saw a gleam appear in Solo Ki's dull lifeless eyes
12. Clothier announced that a play off would be held but Morton had seen a sudden gleam in Seaboy’s eye
13. To his left, X’ander kept pace; a knife at the ready in each hand, a gleam in his white eyes
14. She walked with her head held high and a determined gleam to her eyes
15. don’t bring that gleam in your eyes
16. 'You seem to be enjoying the country?' There was a bemused gleam in his eyes, but he wasn't being sarcastic
17. With fixed bayonets, his guard was formed strongly on either side, and had the wild passion of those frenzied people, kept back by the gleam of steel, been allowed full play, they would have wreaked a fearful vengeance on the unhappy occupants of the prisoners' litters
18. Diane looked upon him with sympathy, noting the irrepressible gleam in Bru’s eyes
19. “No, she wouldn’t appreciate that,” he acknowledged, picking up on the gleam in his sardonic, icy blue eyes as they were reflected in the bathroom mirror
20. ‘Some, but not many,’ he replied with a gleam in his eye?
21. Foreman looked up with a little gleam in her eye
22. He had the oddest little gleam in his eye
23. He looked up from the map with a gleam in his eye
24. its black gleam attracted the girls
25. At least, not the guy with that gleam in his eyes that I’d seen before
26. Amonas smiled, greatly pleased and mildly surprised both for their luck as well as for the gleam in Hilderich’s eyes
27. ” He said it with a gleam in his eye
28. He will be gone for days now, Sim thought inconsequentially, then unexpectedly caught Weo’s eye with a laughing gleam in it
29. “Our guest here tonight is the author of, ‘De-bunking the Sasquatch Myth,’ Jesus told the audience with a sardonic gleam in his eye
30. Every leaf, every flower, every blade of grass seemed to shine and gleam by a Light that came from within them
31. But one child would always say, How will this end, how can this end, and scare away the flicker and the gleam
32. Images of Elior’s summer blue eyes that would never again gleam and twinkle at her
33. When an opportunity came up to demonstrate, you could see the gleam in their eyes
34. I never knew they were so close, but I can see it now, in the gleam of tears in her eyes and the trembling of her fingers
35. “Her!” David says, and tears gleam in his eyes
36. gleam caught his eye
37. His eyes gleam with tears as he says, “I love you, too, Beatrice
38. Meredith pricked up his ears a trifle and a gleam flashed into his dreamy dark eyes
39. The vat began to shine and gleam, as if with an internal light, at Orphenn’s
40. by a gleam in their eyes, caused by Mako infusion
41. “Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you before I kill you then, will you?” my brother said as he turned around looking at me with a gleam in his vampire eye’s from the opposite end of my room
42. 1 And for all the Heavenly troops I imaged the image and essence of fire, and my eye looked at the very hard, firm rock, and from the gleam of my eye the lightning received its wonderful nature, which is both fire in water and water in fire, and one does not put out the other, nor does the one dry up the other, therefore the lightning is brighter than the sun, softer than water and firmer than hard rock
43. 1 And for all the Heavenly troops I imaged the image and essence of fire and my eye looked at the very hard firm rock and from the gleam of my eye the lightning received its wonderful nature which is both fire in water and water in fire and one does not put out the other nor does the one dry up the other therefore the lightning is brighter than the sun softer than water and firmer than hard rock
44. Locking eyes with Amori, she noticed a gleam there that hadn’t been there before, and that beads of perspiration rolled down the sides of her face
45. Locking eyes with Amori she noticed a gleam there that had not been there previously
46. When I made it clear to her that I was not going to go with her, is when I saw this gleam in her eyes
47. As Simon looked on, Johan lifted a curved sword high into the air so that the last of the dying green fire made it gleam, and brought it crashing down on the bleak bones of the soldier nearest to him
48. troop starting a slow descent, the gleam of several spear points reflecting the early morning
49. His eyes gleam yellow, like a wolf’s at night, and the shape of his skull is clear under his pale skin
50. Then, high up in the corner above my head I did see a gleam of light! Despite my painful side, I climbed on top of a stack of crates and found I could easily touch the glowing area with my fingers
1. their firm young bodies gleamed in the candle light, they adopted poses and positions
2. Paintwork gleamed and everything had an air of smartness about it – most unexpected
3. Jack’s gleamed with
4. The brass gleamed like it had on her first day on the job all
5. "We'll get home safely, you'll see!" The tiny white pebbles gleamed in the moonlight, and the children found their way home
6. A pile of coins gleamed in his outstretched hand, then suddenly, the coins leapt into the air, scattering throughout the room
7. From the survivors’ minds he gleamed scattered images of what had happened
8. And she had a wily, mischievous look on her face, a devilish sparkle in her eyes, and a big, playful grin with long white teeth that gleamed in the sun
9. shaggy hound on the trail whose golden eyes glowed and gleamed in the darkness
10. The river gleamed in the mid-day sun as the Skimmer landed on a pad near the center of town
11. “Spare a thought for old Dawson then there’s no one here to keep me company it’s so dark sometimes and I get so lonely that’s why you’re here Billy Boy you can join me for eternity”, and his good eye gleamed maliciously
12. Shrubs with their deep green, shiny leaves gleamed in freshly scrubbed splendor
13. The thick linoleum around the edge of the red and gold rose-patterned carpet gleamed
14. ” Helen looked at me and I could see the love that gleamed in her eyes as she replied
15. Hostility gleamed in those eyes
16. His bald head gleamed in the torchlight
17. I told her it was looking superb, and she gleamed with delight
18. The muddy stream gleamed in the fierce sunlight, while here and there among the trees the white fever mist hung in thin wreaths, of which, if the white man breathe, he shall surely die
19. the excited lad held aloft the lucky raisin in which gleamed the golden
20. Leland and Eli had polished their leather and shined their swords until they gleamed
21. " His teeth gleamed as his smile broadened even further
22. Something gleamed white and bony from beneath a shrub covered in flowers
23. His lumpy head, with the exception of a swipe of long black hair combed sideways over the top, and the coke-bottle glasses as well, gleamed in the overhead fluorescent lights
24. As if sensing my thoughts, her eyes gleamed impishly over the table
25. His eyes gleamed, but the rest of him was just a shadow
26. Salmsoni’s bald pate gleamed dully in the soft strip lighting, the shine of his smoky orange pince-nez hiding his eyes, which were a piercing red with black vertical slits
27. The drops that splashed up around the horses’ legs gleamed and glittered like small crystals
28. One beady black pupil gleamed at Russell, the other stared into the pupil of his alien neighbour, and rising from a spot above either eye, antennae swayed and twitched
29. Somewhere down there, something gleamed white
30. His blue eyes gleamed at her and without further he let a hand slide down over her cheek and smiled
31. His eyes flashed and gleamed as if a thousand little stars were in them
32. Their eyes gleamed in competition with the seven-star on the many pennants
33. His eyes gleamed in the darkness
34. rather burly; his jewelry gleamed through the light tints in the windows, and his
35. The silver grey fur caught some light from the new moon and gleamed when the kitten made his wild capers and beat his paws after the fleeing insects
36. In front of him, a column of Light gleamed reaching from the ground and as far up into the sky as she could see
37. They turned when they heard her come and the sun gleamed in their coats of mail and swords
38. gleamed in the moonlight
39. Una's little pearl-pure face gleamed up at her beseechingly from the manse pew
40. His crystal armor gleamed in the moonlight
41. On the right the lights of Ingleside gleamed through the maple grove with the genial lure and invitation which seems always to glow in the beacons of a home where we know there is love and good-cheer and a welcome for all kin, whether of flesh or spirit
42. Far on the western hill gleamed a paler but more alluring star
43. Alec Davis' tall monument gleamed whitely through the gloom
44. Down the slope and over the trees, the city of Pravik gleamed
45. Ishvara gleamed at her in caution, but I had caught the mental scolding in Ishvara’s eyes and had placed my hand firmly on Jiva’s arm restraining her from moving off the bed
46. As the liner approached very early in the morning, the port named Maunganui gleamed beautifully with its lights
47. Birch bark gleamed silvery white
48. gleamed over successive C with E (F flat) lifetimes
49. But suddenly Stephen's hands began to shake as she held the map, and her eyes gleamed brilliantly as she looked up at the others
50. Their eyes gleamed, and their legs bobbed at the idea of
1. A bearskin rug stares slack jawed and empty eyed from its place on the gleaming marble floor
2. The creature withdrew his right hand from his jacket pocket to reveal a slender, grey-brown paw, talons gleaming like black diamonds in the moonlight
3. He had the worst hangover in the whole wide world and he felt physically sick as he remembered the state of chaos that he and his wife had left behind them the previous evening, but when he opened the kitchen door he was blinded by the dazzle from the work tops and the gleaming surfaces of the kitchen appliances
4. We sloped through the pass, from time to time tantalized by a vision of the cerulean pure wet sea, deep and gleaming in the distance
5. As soon as she saw his eyes go there, it magically became the gleaming fall it always was, but she had arrived in his universe with hair that had been on the bottom of an encounter or two
6. gleaming floor, and the perception that her heart was
7. They walked through the house, admiring the gleaming floors and repainted walls
8. This confused Tipene, so he opened his eyes, and staring him in the face was the teddy-bear, with very gleaming, very alive eyes
9. He thought he could see the gleaming towers thrusting out of the rolling green hills
10. His wife and son had the same smile—wide gleaming teeth
11. " Beth’s green eyes were gleaming with excitement, as Emma became aware of what was being said
12. face of the distantly gleaming mountains
13. Then they charged children with stout sticks and from out of the bushes huge Buffer beasts with tusks gleaming and teeth grinding
14. he had two good eyes, with a fierce hatred gleaming from them
15. A handful of gleaming coins and a warm smile would be more than enough to convince the carriage driver to take her most of the way - just a bit further beyond the point at which the road split and the way upward to Meridia’s famed shrine came into view
16. But a treacherous stone, one obscured by the gleaming white dust and DRAFTChapter 8 147
17. Yes, he had a smile full of gleaming teeth, but Nerissa simply couldn’t see him as the sort of seducer who’d carry off a fair young woman’s heart
18. Off to the side, she thought she noticed a gleaming object hidden partially by animal skins and bones
19. His passing glances at the gleaming gold metal parts along the interior became more frequent, and the wheels began to turn in his mind, keeping time with the limbs of the machi-nery
20. To dream that your teeth is sparkling or gleaming signifies happiness and fulfilled wishes
21. “Yes …yes! ” Galmar’s approval bellowed forth in that gravelly voice, lips curling in a wild grin and baring gleaming teeth
22. Rows of gleaming teeth and glowing eyes alike shone and flashed
23. The house that one day would belong to Danny, was gleaming in the moonlight
24. He did not see the gilded flag of the purple lion enter Saparen, or the Thanes, their armor gleaming in the rising sun, cut through the line of ern
25. The staircase was a grand, ornate fixture in gleaming oak
26. Ferns sparkled with dew and trees held their limbs to the sky, leaves gleaming with the early morning moisture
27. Their journey through the Palace was one of mixed feelings of nervousness and awe at the wonders that lay sprawled wall to wall – paintings of battles and ceremonies of kings, queens, heroes, and legends; tapestries; polished armour standing with spears or swords resting at an angle; mirrors as tall as the thirty-feet-high plaster ceilings worked with golden cornices of grapes and vines or paintings of angels flying through blue skies with white clouds; large chests bound in brass or steel or gold; polished furniture of oak, pine, or redwood; tables; stands; dressers and cabinets; ornaments; artefacts; statues of red-and-blue marble or white stone or gold-and-silver, including dragons and other mythical beasts – all arranged in perfect order and all glistening and gleaming as a result of meticulous dusting and polishing from the hundreds of servants in black livery slashed with red and gold or red and blue who walked busily about the hallways amongst the guards, soldiers, and Guardians who stood at every corner and staircase
28. lay it gleaming on the altar, as his offering to the Holy Child
29. Before he could answer Darcie tugged his elbow and moved him toward an enthusiastic group of ladies and began introducing him to their gleaming smiles
30. How is it you have altogether become like the heathen, With the vanity of the world gleaming in your eye,
31. The only sign that a few moments ago, a gleaming Jaguar had stood in the front yard was the cloud of dust now gently settling onto the ground
32. “Mark,” came the response, white teeth gleaming behind the moustache
33. As the elevator’s gleaming brass doors closed behind, Sylvia looked around the smartly decorated outer room
34. Smiling cheefully, being careful not to stagger a little, she walked arm-in-arm with Tony out to his nifty little MG, its purple-and-black color tones gleaming in the lights
35. He recalled watching her emerge, naked and streaming water, long hair falling over those gleaming breasts, and the triumph in her eyes as she gazed upon the moonstone in her small palm
36. Looked down at his moonstone, gleaming in the palm of her hand
37. With his dark hair combed back to slick and gleaming, he selected for the day a new brand of cologne, which he splashed on liberally, not for additional sex appeal, of which he had considerable, but because he liked the freshness it gave to his skin and the faint whiffs he caught from time to time throughout the day
38. He acceded and the armies marched off, gleaming in their metal armor, the blessings of the Castigator sung over the Southern Gates of Pyr
39. ’ The others were clustered at the far end of a large oval table carved from a single piece of onyx, gleaming dully and reflecting bizarre shapes in the hum of voices
40. The news report showed Nutter getting off his gleaming Fat Boy Harley onto Queensland soil
41. Nutter rode his gleaming Fat Boy Harley, holding the handle bar with his right hand
42. Searching around the group, I found the twins’ gleaming blue eyes, staring at me with raised eyebrows
43. Light was at a premium, its sources the by-products of the industrious machines: sparks like lightning, hot rivers of metal, red and yellow fires and blue-hot flames; green and violet beams of light against stark gray metals, the mirror sheens of gleaming new surfaces reflecting everything, multiplying their intensity in a maze of light
44. "Count it again, Whitey," said a gleaming Bones
45. Her quick interruption of herself had caught his attention fully and his already intense gaze was now almost gleaming
46. He paced around the office with hands behind his back and stopped for a while to take a look outside; he opened the window blinds and gleaming white sunlight filled the room
47. He looked at Nicole sideways then but he was smiling gently, his eyes gleaming softly
48. See, Adu and the Swede are partners, so to speak,” she said with a gleaming smile and fluttered her eyes only for Ethan to see, before she threw her head backwards to gaze at the still faint stars in the sky
49. ’ Russell dipped his hand into the gleaming blue water of the twelve-metre pool
50. gleaming chain around her neck, and confirmed that it was okay to let Junya in
1. The water picked up faint gleams from the thin moon and the stars, and I was able to get oriented
2. Passing Akusirem the sun set, and the rest of that day's journey had to be done in total darkness in the thick forest, though it was full moon, and there were occasional gleams through the trees
3. Her ear gleams when she moves her head—it is pierced from top to bottom
4. And on the left side, a young man with dark hair that gleams in the fluorescent light—Peter
5. Ruby-red gleams of sunset fell through the arching boughs
6. The high-piled burnished mass of hair that caught the torchlight in dull bronze gleams quivered slightly
7. Heather's car now gleams in the weak afternoon sunshine where Stef had washed the mud off and then he and Simon had polished and waxed it, making it look almost new
8. Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
9. And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,
10. “It would have been one glorious day, Franklin, because what you’d be looking at is Eve and Adam, in that order, don’t you think? In time, there would be more and more gleams
11. In that case, casual gleams of memory, giving us sudden, abrupt, momentary revelations of the past, are precisely the phenomena we would expect to meet with
12. In the still when dawn gleams on its face
13. The Harbour gleams with gold mid soft grey-blue
14. Evidently she thinks its fitfulness, its gleams of sunshine and its uneasy cloudings over, are just a passing thing and that it soon will settle down again to what it was before
15. ” Snow crunched under our boots as we walked up the steps and inside to a roaring fire that crackled and hissed, casting gleams of light on the polished redwood floor
16. We had been for a walk after tea through the beechwood, up a hill behind it to the signal station, along a footpath on the edge of the cliff with blue gleams of sea on one side through a waving fringe of blue and purple flowers, and the ryefields on the other
17. " Snow crunched under our boots as we walked up the steps and inside to a roaring fire that hissed and crackled, casting gleams of light on the polished redwood floor
18. The parson read this aloud, and his eyes, otherwise so mild, woke into gleams of enthusiasm
19. After all, what he most loved in her was that she was, so miraculously, a child; a child with gleams of wisdom flickering like a lizard's tongue in her mouth, and who even when she was silly was silly also somehow in gleams--gleams of silver and sunshine
20. There were gleams of sun; and though the wind still blew, the rain held off except for occasional spatterings
21. "This one!" The man points at a black, metal box in the corner, and for a moment victory gleams in his eyes before he realizes that telling someone where you keep your money is probably not the best safety procedure
22. and sent radiant gleams across the city
23. There were many gleams of what must have been glass and steel and aluminium
24. As the road-mender plied his dusty labour, and the hail-clouds, rolling away, revealed bright bars and streaks of sky which were responded to by silver gleams upon the landscape, the little man (who wore a red cap now, in place of his blue one) seemed fascinated by the figure on the heap of stones
25. The shadows, gleams, up under the leaves of the old sycamore-trees,
26. Of such, and fitful as they, I sing--with gleams from them would
27. He was standing in front of the counter, lit up by the gleams of the red bottle, and was saying—
28. They looked over miles and miles of wooded country, and country with gleams of pasture
29. On the river levels were flat gleams of flood water
30. All was darkness, but such utter darkness that after several minutes, my eyes were still unable to catch a single one of those hazy gleams that drift through even the blackest nights
31. It was an immense forest, huge mineral vegetation, enormous petrified trees linked by garlands of elegant hydras from the genus Plumularia, those tropical creepers of the sea, all decked out in shades and gleams
32. It was, however, easy to be seen, by the occasional gleams that shot across his swarthy visage, that it was only necessary to arouse his passions, in order to give full effect to the terrific device which he had adopted to intimidate his enemies
33. The last gleams of twilight were melting into night
34. We kept our hands over our eyes, which were utterly saturated with those concentric gleams that swirl before the retina when sunlight strikes it too intensely
35. A few morning gleams infiltrated the liquid strata
36. Mockery gleams in his dark eyes
37. A few of the graver and more attentive warriors, who caught the gleams of anger that shot from the eyes of the young chief in passing, followed him to the place he had selected for his meditations
38. All was a-shake and a-shiver -- glints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble
39. At this hour the Crixa was all green shade, with red gleams of sun that winked through the moving leaves
40. in her eyes there were gleams of light that betrayed that she understood perfectly and precisely as he did what hope he might have
41. He saw a couple of ships at anchor upon the sheet of water reflecting the last gleams of light, and Sotillo's steamer moored to the jetty
42. And the low sobs of Giselle Viola, kneeling at the end of the bed, her gold hair with coppery gleams loose and scattered over the Capataz's feet, hardly troubled the silence of the room
43. Yellow gleams of lamplight showed in the stores and houses which remained in the village, but they were few
44. I had the full command of my senses; and my eyes became used to the darkness, which was lit, here and there, by fitful gleams
45. The black procession, when dismounted, looked the larger for the smallness of the churchyard; the heavy human faces and the black draperies shivering in the wind seemed to tell of a world strangely incongruous with the lightly dropping blossoms and the gleams of sunshine on the daisies
46. They slept all closely huddled together, and took it in turns to watch; and when it was Bilbo's turn he would see gleams in the darkness round them, and sometimes pairs of yellow or red or green eyes would stare at him from a little distance, and then slowly fade and disappear and slowly shine out again in another place
47. There were two tiny gleams of light behind, or for a moment he thought he saw them, but at once they slipped aside and vanished
48. Gleams of sun were striking through the hurrying clouds, and the forest now looked less grey and drear
49. Something metal gleams in her hands—a lock pick set, Ciere realizes
50. The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the dents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky