2. Verb. Third person singular simple present of ''to gleam.'' ¹
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Definition of Gleams
1. gleam [v] - See also: gleam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleams
Literary usage of Gleams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"A LONELY SAIL A LONELY SAIL gleams WHITE AT SEA. By Valentin Katayev. ...
Lonely Sail gleams White at Sea) the reader is introduced to a small family, ..."
2. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"... and country with gleams of pasture. The crypt underneath the manor was beautiful,
and )erfect preservation. Paul made a drawing: Miriam ..."
3. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Here he could see the rain gradually subsiding with gleams through the parting
clouds which lit up a great reach of the park, where the old oaks stood apart ..."
4. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"gleams like an angel-market. — WE HENLEY. gleams like a diamond on a ...
gleams like a rising harvest moon. — IBID. gleams like the galleon rare of an ..."
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