Puts a gleaming finish on

Usage examples of shines.

Light shines in a nimbus around his body, which by its position conceals something standing in the middle of the charred saffron.

The sun shines no more brightly than the emperor, who illuminates the earth with his boundless love and great wisdom.

For although the sun knows twelve hours of darkness, our regnant, like a star, shines eternally.

Then we walk the loom to the far land of the one whose god shines in her face.

You are to emigrate south for your life, as our well-to-do invalids do, to where the sun shines in his strength all the day.

XXV--APPARITION Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed and weak-fingered: in his face - Lean, large-boned, curved of beak, and touched with race, Bold-lipped, rich-tinted, mutable as the sea, The brown eyes radiant with vivacity - There shines a brilliant and romantic grace, A spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace Of passion and impudence and energy.

She shines before me, hope and dream, So fair, so still, so wise, That, winning her, I seem to win Out of the dust and drive and din A nook of Paradise.

And the brave truth comes overwhelmingly home:- That she in us yet works and shines, Lives and fulfils herself, Unending as the river and the stars.

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!

In such a heart, nature is reflected as in a magic mirror, on whose surface the Beautiful shines in three-fold beauty.