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Agleam   /əglˈim/   Listen
Agleam

adjective
1.
Bright with a steady but subdued shining.  Synonyms: gleaming, nitid.  "The gleaming brass on the altar" , "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"






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"Agleam" Quotes from Famous Books



... one of the captains of the famous Ali-Basha. There were streaks of red in her heavy black tresses, her skin was of a soft pearliness that seemed translucent, her eyes were large, of a golden-brown, agleam with sombre fires, her lips were full and sensuous. She was tall and of a shape that in Europe would have been accounted perfect, which is to say that she was a thought too slender for Oriental taste; she moved ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini

... stream of breath became a river of rushing air he drew into stronger, more capacious lungs; likewise his bust grew strangely deepened, pushed the wind before it; and the sunshine glowed on shaggy flanks agleam with dew that powerfully drove the ground behind him while ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood



Words linked to "Agleam" :   bright, gleaming



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