1. gleam - Noun
2. gleam - Verb
To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
Brightness; splendor.
To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
Source: Webster's dictionaryOne life - a little gleam of time between two eternities. Thomas Carlyle
We got the bubble headed bleached blonde comes on at five, She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye, It's interesting when people die give us dirty laundry... Don Henley
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid. Howard Hodgkin
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" John Constable
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore! Thomas Carlyle
My treasures do not chink or glitter. They gleam in the sun and neigh in the night. Bedouin Proverb