The wood is treated with oil extracted from the tung nut, giving it a deep, rich hue and a gleaming finish. |
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But the price tags at his uptown emporium weren't the only things in the gleaming cases that were hard to swallow. |
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Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on. |
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A figure of myself, alive and breathing, stands before me with gleaming eyes. |
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The centerpiece of our workplace, however, was the huge, gleaming, stainless-steel burger broiler, which heated the kitchen like a blast furnace. |
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Their byrnies were gleaming, the strong links of shining chain-mail chinked together. |
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As I surveyed the waterfront, a cabin cruiser pulled up and deposited a large Indian man with gleaming teeth before pulling away again. |
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Before her, a stone fountain stood silent and empty in the bright spring sunshine, all gleaming white against a sea of bluebells. |
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This should be as neat and clean as the interior of the house, windows gleaming and tools hung neatly on hooks on the wall. |
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They're surrounded by heavy linen, sparkling crystal, gleaming silver, obsequious waiters, and an embarrassment of champagne glasses. |
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A gleaming silver locomotive barrels through desolate scrub, oblivious to the harshness of the environment. |
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And the secret of this glorious, warming taste lies within those gleaming copper stills. |
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Tana had a canary yellow 1971 Triumph Spitfire, gleaming with chrome and carnauba wax. |
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Outside, large flakes of gleaming white snow were falling fast, quickly covering the city in a hazy white blanket. |
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They wear gleaming white robes with white headscarves twirled tight and wide around their heads. |
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His knife was gleaming just above her heart, his hands poised to make the fatal move. |
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Her voice sounded casual, yet there was something unsaid gleaming in her dark brown eyes. |
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The chain was fastened to the back of her collar, giving her a gleaming silver stripe down her back. |
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Bankers in striped shirts were crammed elbow-to-elbow along the gleaming bar. |
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The gleaming steel catches the sunlight, casting a play of sparkling reflections and shadows into the Stygian, subterranean depths. |
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Katherine grinned as she was swept to the left by the waltz, her eyes gleaming underneath the light of the crystal chandeliers. |
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The kids have scoured the school grounds and even the slightest hint of litter has been cleared away to leave the place gleaming. |
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It is an initial surprise to see gleaming white temples and familiar British road signs alongside the fields of tall green sugar cane. |
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Underneath the translucent material was a white chemise and tights of a gleaming pastel gold. |
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Proud owners had customised their scooters and many sported gleaming chromework, multiple wing mirrors and lavish paintwork. |
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Inside, the restaurant is still cosy and chintzy, with fresh flowers and gleaming silverware. |
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The deserted town, wet stones gleaming palely, is like a vision from the nineteenth century. |
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Snapping his swagger stick against his gleaming boots, The Butcher returned. |
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Everything is just right, from the wood and marble bar piled high with tasty cicheti to the gleaming copper pots overhead. |
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Over 50 Showman's engines with their gleaming, twisted brass generate the light and power for the old roundabouts and swingboats to operate. |
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Her muzzle drew back in a strange parody of a human smile to reveal gleaming fangs the size of traffic cones. |
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I was surrounded by gloriously clean-limbed Corinthians with gleaming kit and designer Lycra body suits. |
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It was a gorgeous bowl of strawberries in a beautiful, gleaming clear glass bowl. |
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To keep those pearly whites gleaming, you need to take proper care of your teeth and gums daily. |
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Beside him there was a gleaming glass and the white cloth he'd been cleaning it with. |
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Nicola peered into the underbrush and made out a family of weasels peering right back at her, their coal-black eyes gleaming. |
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Their townhouse is immaculate, with white walls and gleaming appliances in the small kitchen. |
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He gave a laugh that was more a snarl, barring gleaming white fanged teeth at my little joke. |
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The asphalt ground was a gleaming with a glint of gray, and it seemed to shine incandescently. |
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She could see silver indentions along the blade in elegant curves gleaming in the moonlight. |
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Away from the gleaming skyscrapers, China's cities are ringed by run-down shacks, with festering heaps of garbage by the roadside. |
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This was a calm area of the river, where there was a pool nearly six feet deep surrounded by large, round, gleaming rocks. |
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He grinned, trying to shake off his morning glumness, and swung his own gleaming blade around, flourishing it with expertise. |
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Manchester, by comparison, is a gleaming metropolis of cosmopolitan glamour and dodgy haircuts. |
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The style is of a luxury cruiser, with round windows looking like portholes and the gleaming white exterior the hull of a ship. |
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She thought about his flushed face, his gleaming eyes, his handsome build, his passionate words. |
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The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor. |
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The movie is shot in gleaming digital video, rife with modern post-production values. |
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I sat before him in a straight-back chair and picked up a chess piece from the gleaming cherry-wood set on the credenza to my left. |
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In his mind, he could still see his father's gleaming eyes when he reminded Michael again, a few hours ago, about the cruciality of the dinner. |
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La Defense is a strikingly modern part of Paris, dominated by the gleaming cubic shape of the Arche de la Defense. |
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You glance up to the window, curtains drawn to reveal the moon hanging in the clear night sky, gleaming softly. |
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A dark figure swathed in shadows stood over her, a dagger gleaming in its raised hand. |
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There were, however, sightings of strange apparitions dimly gleaming gauntly in the night sky over the Lich Tower. |
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But in the midst of this relentless repression, there were rare, precious gems of resistance gleaming out from the melancholy. |
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He made his way down the hallway, the lights gleaming even brighter, piercing through the void of space. |
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An off-colored rock, gleaming near white in the gloom, was good for a slight scoot. |
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The stars gleaming and moon shining lit my way to the secluded hill as the noise of everyone behind me faded. |
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As it walked closer to the fire they could see white hair gleaming in the light. |
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The soft grass they stood on was covered in sweet dew, the water gleaming and reflecting the light upon their faces. |
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He creates a play of black and blue colours to set the backdrop and on this he places three boats, with bright lights gleaming from them. |
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The young man held up his hands to show he was unarmed, but they continued towards him, the daggers gleaming in the flickering light. |
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They were Indians, though I could see the light from the few lanterns gleaming off their white chests. |
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I'd rather sweat and curse over ten pages of something new than dry and polish one page until it's gleaming and ready to be put away. |
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There was a large wooden desk, highly polished and gleaming like it had been soaked in oil, at the nether end of the room. |
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There everything looked shiny and new, gleaming with the polished metallic look of a classic car show. |
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Krystal looked at him once, with disappointment gleaming wetly in her eyes. |
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She smiled and leaned towards her guest with more than polite curiosity gleaming in her blue eyes. |
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I looked at him, though still on the floor, his eyes were gleaming strangely with pride and amazement. |
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She follows the story with a burst of laughter, her eyes gleaming with pleasure. |
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All I ever wanted in life was to make them proud, to see them smiling at me, pride gleaming in their eyes. |
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She caught his eye and he could almost swear that he saw a flash of mischief gleaming in hers. |
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Meanwhile, the city has become a gleaming, shining pretty pearl in a box of pleasures and delights. |
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The sun set in a glory, and twilight arrived with gracefully gleaming stars, and a full golden moon on the horizon. |
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Royal smirked at Larkins, his eyes gleaming puckishly, before setting out across the tracks for a good place to jump on to the next train. |
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I take delight in the flaming stoves and gleaming brass vessels in wayside dhabas. |
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You might have already seen it, a gleaming new car emblazoned with Knights logos driving around the district. |
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You could count the pulsing intestines and gleaming entrails in his breast. |
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Cities with gleaming business districts and luxury developments for the rich are surrounded by shanty towns and slums. |
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His face was gleaming with sweat and suppressed exclamations of pain, his chest rising and falling heavily. |
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One might wonder why someone would go nosing around a musty corner to buy an old dog-eared book instead of buying crisp, gleaming copies. |
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Sports cars, saloon cars and estates were crowded together, all gleaming and shiny as if they had just come from the factory. |
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The obvious leader of the group was a tall male with an eyepatch, holding a gleaming long sword. |
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The drake sported full plumage with chocolate-brown head contrasting with gleaming white breast. |
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Tom found himself surrounded by familiar faces that blurred into a ring of gleaming teeth and eyes. |
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I frowned, glancing from his face to the sawed-off shotgun gleaming menacingly in his hands. |
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Every window had been replaced, the panes gleaming, and the roof had been re-shingled with cedar shakes. |
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They'd walk up to change shifts looking the business in Ray-Bans, stretched skintight trousers, gleaming helmets and high boots. |
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Eight grains of rice were scattered across the table, polished and gleaming like tiny gems. |
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And there it would be, the horizon ablaze with light where the gleaming flames of candles met the distant flicker of stars. |
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The quadruped stood on all four of its legs, its silver-grey synthetic fur shining, the false yellow eyes gleaming intensely. |
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A huge three-story mall abuts the old Menger Hotel, with high skylights and gleaming tile floors. |
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Her washboard is not some cast off piece of junk, more a statement of gleaming health and efficiency. |
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He pulled his left arm away from her and checked the gleaming silver watch on his wrist. |
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She rocked the gleaming harp towards her, nestling it into its accustomed spot on her right shoulder. |
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With that movement, a silver necklace fell out of his robes, gleaming brightly in the weak light. |
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An iPod can store up to ten thousand songs in a gleaming white box smaller than a pack of cigarettes. |
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His face has a slightly rakish quality to it, his eyes gleaming with charm, and cunning. |
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The gleaming, ultimate, driving machine slows down and stops, two alloy wheels on the footpath, twenty yards from the junction. |
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You can see the Parthenon from anywhere in Athens, gleaming whitely on the Acropolis. |
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We wander into the winery next door to the studio, with its gleaming silver vats and stacked wooden crates of bottles ready for dispatch. |
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Ricky's grin of recognition revealed a healthy complement of gleaming white dentition, all the more albescent in contrast to his swarthy visage. |
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When I grabbed the gleaming chrome door handle, I felt machined bumps, or knurls, that provide extra grip. |
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Comparing the black hue of your wrought-iron garden gate with the gleaming steel of the car bumper, can they really be the same element? |
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When I arrive in out of the cold, the tables are laid with fresh white tablecloths, gleaming cutlery and sparkling wine glasses. |
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The fog cleared to reveal gleaming glaciers and maritime alps as we made a cautious sun-soothed entry into the sound itself. |
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It's now as smooth and gleaming, and as ruddily glowing, as a freshly deforested Alpine slope at sunset. |
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This is where the Doberman gets his short, gleaming coat, and the fine black and tan markings. |
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A quick google reveals that he is a spiritual medium, the gleaming white raiment possibly implying a familiarity with the angelic host. |
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His tail almost dragged upon the gleaming floor, black and braided as well. |
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Their road climbed now, winding around a hill crowned with palaces of gleaming marble. |
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In the morning it wakes me up to the sparkle and dazzle of the sea, and the gleaming stretch of beach, not yet crowded with slick brown bodies. |
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If you come expecting a round-house full of gleaming rolling stock you may be disappointed, because few locomotives or cars are on display. |
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He continued to allow his gaze to rove over the gleaming blade, menacingly sharp, as well as its well-decorated hilt. |
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We are in the early 1970s, with plenty of gleaming period automobiles rolling past on cue. |
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The new, gleaming, modern face of Shanghai is a recent development, fueled by China's ascension in global trade. |
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Adair, surveying his brand-new kitchen, runs a hand over a gleaming worktop. |
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With a soft, gleaming luster that even a little leftover field dust does nothing to hide, tomatoes beckon us to the summer kitchen. |
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The company brilliantly captures the feel of the master's writing without having to resort to big dresses and gleaming samovars. |
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New sofas, beds and carpets appeared, as if by magic, along with an array of gleaming electrical appliances for the kitchen. |
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They all had magnificent feather crests on their heads in vivid reds and rich gleaming browns. |
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Teal-blue water licked at uninhabited gleaming, creamy beaches backdropped by vertically faced limestone cliffs hundreds of feet straight up. |
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Lena's eyes narrowed against the harsh glare of the sun gleaming off the backs and manes of several horses in the surrounding pastures. |
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Most of the pictures showed Frank senior in his early forties, with his broad gleaming grin and backswept hair. |
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Light glittering from metal, a scrabble of feet launched it forward, a long blade raised and gleaming like copper. |
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We share pink delicious gum in our garden by puffs of pearl white baneberries near the gleaming stream. |
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Nestled into the gleaming array of jeweled beauties were my weakness, bangle bracelets. |
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There was a wolf sitting on the gleaming linoleum outside the office, head cocked, ears pricked. |
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A neatly dressed footman in navy blue livery stood, alert, by its side and a pair of gleaming chestnut horses were in harness. |
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From a distance, his digging areas look like plowed fields, bordered by a gleaming expanse of tidal flats. |
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The white, almost gleaming walls of the semi-detached houses spelt wealth and comfort. |
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It was an impressive sight, gleaming with the burnished sheen of beaten bronze and flashing green marble. |
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Lumbering estate cars honked, gleaming BMWs tooted and a black cab gave a prolonged blast. |
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Pulling a length of gleaming silver ribbon out of her white robe with the other, she wrapped Alex's hand, binding it around the sword hilt. |
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He looked at her, her face gleaming with a sheen of sweat as she watched him. |
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He stared at Laurie over his bifocals, his balding head gleaming in the afternoon sun coming through the bay window at the end of the foyer. |
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He was too busy eating hot dogs, his face distorted by the meat, his dark feral eyes gleaming misanthropically into the field of play. |
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The stores were decorated with bins of coffee beans, photos of coffee trees, and shelves of gleaming coffee paraphernalia. |
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Her hair was brushed and gleaming, her white jumpsuit had been exchanged for a pair of trousers and a huge coat, both in dark blue. |
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A light gray deepens to a gleaming anthracite, giving volume and depth to the image. |
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For years, our Scandinavian cousins put us to shame with their gleaming molars and incisors. |
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He is just back from a family skiing holiday in Norway and is continually shuttling to and fro, from the gleaming red motor home to the pits. |
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The chorus unveils gleaming shards of bombastic wit and cut-throat tuneage before the shroud of unfriendly uber-noise descends once more. |
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We could plainly see all the knife-edge creases in his trousers and the gleaming white blancoed webbing belt around his middle. |
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A gleaming and glittering twist on gray, silver is the complementary colour of gold. |
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True to its period, it has a simple design and is built of stone, with most of the house covered in gleaming white harling. |
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Within its protective cover, he built gleaming palaces and gardens perfumed with roses, jasmine and myrtle. |
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The other is Mortuary, which presents the sanitary walls and gleaming metal surfaces of an unpeopled morgue. |
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This was the Harley-Davidson he kept in a loft, unridden, gleaming on a plinth. |
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Attempting to recover her was a man in his late teens, with ice blue hair and an unsheathed long sword gleaming in the morning sunlight. |
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They were great gleaming disks that stared unwinkingly, luminous, whitish, and without a hint of normal emotion or sanity. |
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There was a chair to one side of the door and in it sat a polished woman with gleaming blonde hair in soft, unwrinkled clothes. |
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Director Ridley Scott, however, must have found the image of Cameron Diaz astride a gleaming sports car too good not to show. |
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I made the mistake of looking up at her, only to see that the smile on her face had grown, the twinkle in her eyes gleaming more brightly then ever. |
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The moon peeked through the snow clouds as we tramped the palely gleaming moorland tracks and stood, still and silent, on the white side roads among the conifers. |
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We could go out at night with a spotlight and cast it around and see little gleaming eyes shines all over from Mulgaras and hopping mice and dunnarts and so on. |
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Flapping his great wings like a real angel of death come for the new-born he inhaled deeply, his eyes becoming two gleaming points in the dark sky. |
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The central view port was replaced with an image of a gleaming advanced enemy attack force whose formation had a wide span like the wings of a condor. |
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Presently, two Royal Guards, resplendently decked out in gleaming armour, fell into step silently behind their beloved ruler, and escorted him down the wide palace corridors. |
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The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers. |
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Pretty patchwork place mats were placed on a crisp white linen tablecloth with a side plate full of gleaming cutlery, all illuminated by a large church candle. |
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The view is not of the standard Chicago skyline in which gleaming skyscrapers rise like the Emerald City from the glassy expanse of Lake Michigan. |
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Housed in a gleaming, 1967 Airstream trailer, which was parked in front of Greenwich House Pottery, it drew gaggles of viewers and buyers right off the sidewalk. |
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Once you're turned out properly, with your webbing blancoed, your boots dubbined and your brass buckles gleaming, the natives will look at you quite differently. |
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Nick is determined to reinstall the last few gleaming hawsehole surrounds. |
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The early light promised a hot, dry southern day, the sky gleaming like hot metal, the summer smell of parched weeds making the air difficult to breathe. |
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But then, like a scene in a horror movie, she will wake as though someone were coming at her with a gleaming knife. |
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I jammed my thumb into my mouth and almost choked on it while the screen lit up with sunny skies on a gleaming lake. |
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She found out on her first day on the job in 1941, when confronted with two bodies laid out on gleaming white porcelain tables. |
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Beautiful terraced gardens sloped down towards the wide Conwy estuary, with the sea-going river a sinuous curve of silver between gleaming mud banks. |
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Renee's normally cobweb-like cloud of wavy brown hair now fell in a straight, gleaming sheen all the way to her upper back, at last looking more nut-brown than it did mousy. |
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It was a bay, with a liver chestnut body and gleaming black legs. |
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She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her. |
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The first note rings out from the right where Bernice Johnson Reagon holds court, her unlined brown skin gleaming, salt-and-pepper hair trimmed in a neat Afro. |
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Asia's largest slum lies smack bang between a high-tech business district with gleaming glass skyscrapers and a tiny Mumbai suburb dotted with grand Art Deco mansions. |
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Even if the display erred on the side of parsimony, the gleaming expanse of wooden flooring and the glittering space above seemed to invite one in to marvel. |
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Their eyes were gleaming with relief and an overall feeling of gratitude. |
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If you squint, you can see the Home Depot behind it gleaming bright and orange in the clear Texas air. |
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She held her sword firmly in her hand, the elven blade gleaming in the firelight the radiated off of the torches that were in the sconces along the wall. |
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A katana appeared in front of her, unsheathed and gleaming deadly sharp. |
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She gestured at carefully piled plates and bowls stacked on shelves and bluebell-patterned cups and saucers gleaming on the draining board by the sink. |
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The void evoked in the first few bars is bleak and barren, chilly vibrato-less strings and coldly gleaming brass, with winds bubbling away like some kind of primordial soup. |
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Gryphon, however, cast a look over his shoulder at her, his eyes gleaming with pride before he signaled for the heralds to open the doors to the ballroom. |
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His long Luo legs were in no way inferior, one should add, to Elisabeth Hasselbeck's gleaming white gams. |
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He removed the sword from its gleaming sheath and stared at the blade. |
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Beside them was a collection of motorbikes all gleaming chrome and giant handle bars, and a ghetto blaster which blared out decades-old heavy rock hits. |
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When wet, the basalt changes colour from silvery grey to gleaming black. |
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Maurice snorted, moving the cloth up and down the gleaming rifle barrel. |
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Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade. |
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They moved to the front and sat attentively, hope gleaming in their eyes. |
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The werewolf rose up howling, blood coating its white fur, fangs gleaming in the moonlight, its eyes reflecting a rabid malevolence to match its deeds. |
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The other noble metal is silver, comparatively scarce in nature but easily beaten into shapes where its gleaming silver colour reminded the ancients of the Moon. |
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Unfortunately it was a solitary shiny penny gleaming out of a pool of mud. |
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In the blink of an eye, her ring collections jetted from the showrooms into the gleaming display cases of the world class retail merchants like Bloomingdales. |
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Morrish has a crisp, clean architectural style that can make mesquite trees and shrubs look majestic simply by scattering some gleaming white bunkers around them. |
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She remained silent, her head held high and her eyes gleaming with anger. |
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The rebel army had lowered its banners and was taking cover in the forests that were interspersed between the farmland found outside of the gleaming city. |
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So off I tootled to the garage with the petrol can, grabbed four litres of unleaded and got back home to find Mr Chippy all cleaned and gleaming, waiting for work. |
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Less and less are we seeing these gleaming muscular models that step into the blocks looking more like bodybuilders than runners, particularly the women! |
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Turner was always sartorially elegant, often in yellow beige riding breeches, Sam Browne belt, powder blue tweed coat, gleaming boots, and military hat. |
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I stared at the knife in my hand for a long time, turning it over and over in my hands, admiring the keen edge and the gleaming metal that made the blade. |
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The more it bucketed, the more she beamed, perhaps hoping that viewers would admire her gleaming dentistry long enough for play to resume on Centre Court. |
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It unnerved him when she looked at him with fear gleaming in her eyes. |
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The original 1920s carriages have been beautifully restored, with gleaming woodwork, woven lace macassars, inlaid Lalique glass panels and wing-backed armchairs. |
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A plush Volvo of latest make was crawling up a narrow lane squeezing itself into the gap between houses like a gleaming dagger into a tight sheath. |
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Endless stretches of water, gleaming rivers and gliding boats framed within the vibrant shades of green paddy fields and blue skies dotted with billowy white clouds. |
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Britain's gleaming all-seater stadiums are the new cathedrals. |
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The footwear radiated the sense of money, all polished and gleaming. |
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He hastily straightened his gleaming bronze cuirass and cuisse, settled his sword sheath and gauntlets more comfortably upon his belt, and entered the audience hall. |
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His first launch pad was a gleaming white space station otherwise known as The Cludge Zone. |
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Those fields rippled sullenly, their edges gleaming with frost-rimmed tidelines and sometimes, shards of ice. |
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Italian scooters were preferred for their cleanlined, curving shapes and gleaming chrome. |
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Instead of bales of cloth he saw there only gleaming bucklers hanging on the walls, and arms of all kinds as in a seignorial castle. |
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Ghadah's beauty was radiant, unquashable. No abbayah could vanquish this resilient, gleaming woman. |
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Now by these canons god could just turn himself into a huge, gleaming deep-blue sphere, spangled with asterisms. |
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Caroline and John Jr. took great interest in the gleaming dirk. |
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Three real ales are served from gleaming brass handpumps, with Sharp's Doombar and Fuller's London Pride being the regular beers. |
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We spotted butterfly fish drifting by like snowflakes and a gleaming school of silversides. |
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But a backsplash is rarely touched, so you can enjoy this gleaming look without too much hassle. |
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But the gleaming chassis of Schwarzenegger's latest foe is something entirely out of the ordinary. |
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Passengers from the giant cruise ships berthed in Gruz port had taken over the gleaming limestone pavements of the Stradun in the Old Town. |
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The unique bike features a shovelhead motor, plenty of gleaming chrome and a stunning PPG silver-flake and candy-blue finish. |
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With his pearly-whites and gleaming eyes, you should pick out Jimmy Floyd in a pea-souper. |
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It is a real show-stopper with gleaming ivory paintwork, Wenge-coloured wood and mother of pearl interior touches plus sumptuous Cuoio leather. |
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And, across the gleaming beaches, lo! the mighty flow and fall Of the great ingathering waters thundering under Wamberal! |
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And all about the room, candles gleaming in branched sconces. Nary one glare of electric light. |
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Crowded onto this, alongside gleaming brass scales and weights, were even more jars of sweets, a cornucopia of fruit drops, cachous, sherbet-dips, cinder toffee and so forth. |
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Sunday drivers often slow down as they pass the iron gates, wondering about the gleaming white Caribbean-style bungalow at the end of the long, serpentine drive. |
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The beauty of bark can really be appreciated in winter, from the alabaster white bark of betula utilis var jacquemontii to the gleaming coppery red of prunus serrula. |
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He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming. |
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That's what I learned to drive on, a tractor like this,'' Thomas said from the bucket seat of the tractor, painted John Deere's trademark gleaming green and yellow. |
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I recognize the peeling, gleaming white trunks of paper birch and the smooth, light-gray bark of American beech, but most often, I see bark as a blur of browns and grays. |
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They spread out hand-carved jungle deities, intricately etched bowls and chains of gleaming shells, should the din-dins want to take a souvenir home with them. |
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The first salon is a gleaming crimson, the second is slate blue. |
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Some of the most beautiful decorations, gleaming gold and pristine white, are in little cobbled side streets such as Rue du Chaudron and Rue du Sanglier. |
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