gleaming

Speech parts

1. gleaming - Noun

2. gleaming - Adjective

3. gleaming - Verb

5. gleaming - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Gleam

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. Thomas Mann

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dew on the still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass Music that gentler on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Lord Byron

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

And we recall, with a gleaming stab of sadness, Vaguely and incoherently, some dream Of a world we came from, a world of sun-blue hills... A black wood whispers around us, green eyes gleam; Someone cries in the forest, and someone kills. Conrad Aiken

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