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Definition of Gleamed
1. gleam [v] - See also: gleam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleamed
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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