Gleam in example sentence

I can now conjecture readily that this streak of light was, in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern carried by some one across the lawn: but then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world.

More example sentences with word gleam

And every time I go to a school, I see a gleam in the eyes of the children.

You can see a gleam in their eye.

So take for instance "A gleam of happiness."

John Travolta has a bad dye job, and the strange gleam in his eye throughout the movie made me think that he was on some sort of extended Scientology bender.

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