What is "agleam"

Usage examples of "agleam".

All at once the group opened up a bit and they saw a silvery, glittering aeroplane, agleam with new aluminum paint, throbbing and vibrating, as if anxious to be off.

Look how the liberal and transfiguring air Washes this inn of memorable meetings, This centre of ravishments and gracious greetings, Till, through its jocund loveliness of length A tidal-race of lust from shore to shore, A brimming reach of beauty met with strength, It shines and sounds like some miraculous dream, Some vision multitudinous and agleam, Of happiness as it shall be evermore!

The pair of them convulse with laughter, wheezing and spluttering, their lips agleam with alcohol.

But in the account Adams gave years afterward, it was the graceful Marie Antoinette, agleam in diamonds and finery, who remained most vivid in memory: She was an object too sublime and beautiful for my dull pen to describe.

Simon knew where it was only from the cluster of colony trains keeping station around it, slim silver bars agleam with reflected sunlight, forming their own tight little cluster.

Look how the liberal and transfiguring air Washes this inn of memorable meetings, This centre of ravishments and gracious greetings, Till, through its jocund loveliness of length A tidal-race of lust from shore to shore, A brimming reach of beauty met with strength, It shines and sounds like some miraculous dream, Some vision multitudinous and agleam, Of happiness as it shall be evermore!

Lath wheeled around in the seat to look, his eyes agleam as if it were some kind of game.

His eyes were now agleam, and the beauty of his countenance fully manifest.

Kiyo and Hailey lay on the slope with an islander woman, all of them gazing up at an artificial sky, agleam with a midmormng light.

Then she sauntered over, her insolent body agleam in the light of the Three Ladies.

Both colonels arrived, resplendent in crisply pressed greens, with brass agleam and banks of colorful ribbons pinned over their hearts, above the left breast pocket of their blouses, the formal military suit coat.

It fell almost half the distance in a single straight leap, unhidden by spume, agleam like a drawn sword.

A nobleman passed by in his palanquin, young dandies whooped in a wineshop, a troop of guardsmen tramped with mail agleam, a cavalry officer and his attendant cataphracts cantered haughtily behind a runner who shouted and elbowed people aside, banners flew, cloaks and scarfs billowed in a brisk wind off the sea, New Rome seemed immortally young.

Bellowing in glee, fangs agleam, the vodianoi threshed after the nearest.

Under this dull sky, that peculiarity of the Valley race — their ability to change the color of both skin and hair — had now left him gray, and against the wanness of his hair his ivory horns were agleam.