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Quotes About Gleaming

In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected lights resembled an oval patch of night sky flung down into the hopeless and abysmal night of the wilderness.
~ Joseph Conrad
With an amazingly balletic movement Zaphod was standing and scanning the horizon, because that was how far the gold ground stretched in every direction, perfectly smooth and solid. It gleamed like … it's impossible to say what it gleamed like because nothing in the Universe gleams in quite the same way that a planet made of solid gold does.
~ Douglas Adams
Teeth aren't pearly, until you smile.
~ Anthony Liccione
Hope, like the gleaming taper
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Shiny teeth were footnote to her smile.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
He walked the length of the gleaming torpedoes and halted before another steel door in a cross bulkhead. He opened this, and beyond, four feet away, was another such heavy door set in another such bulkhead. The sills were about eighteen inches
~ Alistair MacLean
Alicia, her eyes shining.
~ Enid Blyton
Over shadowy spires and gleaming towers lay the ghostly darkness and silence that runs before dawn.
~ Robert E. Howard
At her shriek Conan shot erect, teeth gleaming, sword lifted. "The statues! The statues! – oh my God, the statues are coming to life!
~ Robert E. Howard
So Carbone had no closet full of clean and pressed uniforms. There were no serried ranks of undershirts, crisp and laundered, folded ready for use. There were no gleaming boots under his bed.
~ Lee Child
The steam trains crossed the country, the gleaming tracks clumsy sutures across wounded miles of stolen land.
~ Libba Bray
In the moonlight, though, the pain is revealed to be love. The emotions are entwined; they are the two sides of the same gleaming coin.
~ Ann Napolitano
Imprisoned within the impassable walls of the locked, lifeless polar world, all that is left for her is a deathly cold isolation, numbing her senses and freezing her brain. The world lost, the light lost, the mind lost, the coldly gleaming, relentlessly moving ice has become her sole and final reality.
~ Anna Kavan
She was completely soaked in blood. Her hair swung in red tangles around her shoulders, and her face was a gleaming mask, her eyes like hard diamonds. I am Death.
~ Joe Schreiber
his eyes were exactly the color of that gleaming golden-brown moss you see on stones under the clear water of running brooks.
~ Eleanor Cameron
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long glinting dragon-flies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I have a love for anything gold.
~ Camille Kostek
I want a brighter word than bright
~ John Keats
Kit's horse wasn't white at all, Will saw with relief, but a sorrel gelding so red he gleamed like wet blood even by the cold fey light that surrounded them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
His hair shone blue-black in ringlets and a ruddy light gleamed behind the windows of his eyes, as clear as water running over stones.
~ Elizabeth Bear
and suddenly, it seemed, he lay in the sunlight, beautiful with his olive skin, dark haired, dark eyed, the gleaming bodily vision of a strayed faun.
~ Arthur Machen
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
~ Elizabeth Wein