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As soon as the first
gleam
of light appeared in the east, the colonists, suitably armed, repaired to the beach under Granite House.
"Yes, yes!" replied Herbert, "and perhaps with care we may arouse in him some
gleam
of intelligence."
Herbert then in a few words related the incidents of the voyage, and dwelt on the curious fact of the sort of passing
gleam
in the prisoner's mind, when for an instant in the height of the storm he had become a sailor.
I cold see by the
gleam
in Holmes's eyes that he thought we were nearing the end of our journey.
Once he looked up at me with a
gleam
of something like humor in his eyes.
CHAPTER XXIAlas, how many hours and years have past,Since human forms have round this table sate,Or lamp, or taper, on its surface
gleam'
d!
"I espy him," said De Bracy; "I see the waving of a knight's crest, and the
gleam
of his armour.
And so it went on and on: the same jolting and knocking, the same beating of the snow on the windowpane, the same rapid changes from steaming heat to cold, and back again to heat, the
gleam
of the same faces through the semidarkness, and the same voices, – but at last Anna began to read and to follow what she read.
Her face seemed tired and had none of that play which showed now in a smile and now in the animation of her eyes; but just for an instant as she looked at him he saw a
gleam
in her eyes and, though the spark was at once extinguished, that one instant made him happy.
The lawyer's grey eyes tried not to laugh but they danced with irrepressible glee, and Karenin saw that it was not only the glee of a man getting profitable business; there was triumph and delight, and a
gleam
resembling the evil-boding
gleam
he had seen in his wife's eyes.
Not even that
gleam
of light which snow sometimes gives.
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.
And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold
gleam
in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre.
I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings,--all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid
gleam
of moonlight.
pointing to Thornfield Hall, on which the moon cast a hoary gleam, bringing it out distinct and pale from the woods that, by contrast with the western sky, now seemed one mass of shadow.
One
gleam
of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; its beak held a gold bracelet set with gems, that I had touched with as brilliant tints as my palette could yield, and as glittering distinctness as my pencil could impart.
According as the shifting obscurity and flickering
gleam
hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke, that bent his brow; now St. John's long hair that waved; and anon the devilish face of Judas, that grew out of the panel, and seemed gathering life and threatening a revelation of the arch-traitor--of Satan himself--in his subordinate's form.
The west, too, was warm: no watery
gleam
chilled it--it seemed as if there was a fire lit, an altar burning behind its screen of marbled vapour, and out of apertures shone a golden redness.
On waking, a
gleam
dazzled my eyes; I thought--Oh, it is daylight!
I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the
gleam
was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever.
In seeking the door, I turned an angle: there shot out the friendly
gleam
again, from the lozenged panes of a very small latticed window, within a foot of the ground, made still smaller by the growth of ivy or some other creeping plant, whose leaves clustered thick over the portion of the house wall in which it was set.
Then he would look at her with the cold
gleam
of an accuser drawing up anindictment against women--all women, poor weak things.
This
gleam
of hope acquired fresh life, when he saw Quasimodo, Coppenole, and the deafening escort of the pope of the procession of fools quit the hall amid great uproar.
He followed all these movements with his eyes; it was the last
gleam
of hope.
This question caused a flash of hope to
gleam
before Jehan's eyes.
Here and there windows began to gleam, like the holes in a brazier.
They could be heard buzzing, and a
gleam
of all sorts of weapons was visible in the darkness.
It was her last
gleam
of hope extinguished.
An ashy
gleam
dimly lighted this scene, and the gallows grew more and more distinct in the square.
The wrinkle between her brows increased, and her eyes began to shine under their golden lashes with a cold
gleam.
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