Definition of Gleamed

1. Verb. (past of gleam) ¹

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Definition of Gleamed

1. gleam [v] - See also: gleam

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleamed

glazier
glazieries
glaziers
glaziery
glaziest
glazily
glaziness
glazinesses
glazing
glazing agent
glazings
glazy
glead
gleads
gleam
gleamed (current term)
gleamer
gleamers
gleamier
gleamiest
gleaming
gleamingly
gleamings
gleams
gleamy
glean
gleanable
gleaned
gleaner
gleaners

Literary usage of Gleamed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"gleamed like the flocks of cloudlets bright in sunny air at morn. ... gleamed as funeral lamps in a sepulchral chamber. — FLAUBERT. ..."

2. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1921)
"... and gazed landwards, and bade farewell for the present to the town — to Christiania, where the windows gleamed so brightly in all the homes. ..."

3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... Then eastern Egypt saw the growing flame, Where first the soldier, stung with generous shame, And Maida's myrtles gleamed beneath its ray, Rivalled the ..."

4. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"TO 0 THOU Whose dear love gleamed upon the gloomy path Which this lone spirit travelled, drear and cold But swiftly leading to those awful limits Which mark ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"... their raw Chinese hues, lay on the sofa and on the white carpet which they seemed to tinge like great blots of spilt colour. On another wall gleamed ..."

6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"This, where the sunlight struck it, gleamed like an outstretched band of gold. It was the sinuous Colorado, ..."

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