There were eroded frescoes on the walls, and gleams of marble from corners where the weather had not penetrated. |
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It's fixed up and polished till it proudly gleams again and catches the eye of yet another prospective owner. |
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After breakfast he sets about cleaning his truck till it gleams and drives off to work at a stone quarry. |
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The camera switches across to the other side of my mouth and focuses on a huge filling that gleams two distinct colours, copper and silver. |
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Four of the heads wear masks of applied gold-leaf, and it gleams strangely over the green patina of the ancient bronze. |
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The brightly painted front door from an age gone by gleams in the morning Sun. |
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The painting gleams monolithically against a white wall and also smells like perfumed hair product. |
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The sky in the east gleams like burnished brass gilding the wavelets on Phoenix Bay. |
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A dim line of light gleams from its surface across the building's ruined ceiling. |
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Now, at one end gleams the new Guggenheim museum, a worldwide success, virtually bought with huge subsidies, against stiff competition. |
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Its frontage gleams with neon, and above the gaudy porch is a statue of a four-horsed laurel-wreathed charioteer, his spear raised phallically into the dull London sky. |
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Last sun gilds the weathercock and, within the darkening interior, the slate floor gleams with dampness. |
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Silver' gleams in bursts of repeated notes, while mercurial skittering through various registers evokes the 'quicksilver' aspect. |
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Think of super-sleek straight hair that gleams with every strand, or soft lush curls that glisten with every turn. |
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Here resounds the laughter of a Rabelais, here gleams the smile of Erasmus, here flashes the wit of a Voltaire. |
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Here the richness of Canada's multicultural society gleams through among the colourfully-packaged foodstuffs from scores of nations. |
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The sun was now right down upon the mountain top, and the red gleams fell upon my face, so that it was bathed in rosy light. |
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Outside the conference rooms, booming Atlanta gleams in the spring sunshine. |
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They are out of sight of all that gleams above, and largely out of mind. As Wacker Drive, so America. |
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In Mali, part of the landscape gleams like a giant emerald in the middle of the arid brown African Sahel. |
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The closing theme retreats from all the tumult and gleams with a profound serenity that defines the very essence of Eusebius. |
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This distinct architecture is strengthened by the interplay of colours as the translucent stadium shell gleams in a choice of white, red or blue. |
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Her velvet eyes cast gleams of fire at Victor, as if to rouse in the heart of Juanito his hatred of the French. |
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Admire the sunrise that bathes the isles of pink granite and whose gleams grace the surface of deep violet-blue water. |
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The pieces meander across the skin and appear to leave droplets of crystal and gleams of summer sun. |
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Another wonder is the Ghost Tree, its bare branches of the smoothness and colour of ivory curving skywards in supplication as it gleams spectrally in the dying light. |
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The baroque Catherine Palace facade features golden domes and blue and white detailing, while the interior positively gleams and glitters with mirrors, chandeliers and tumescent cherubs. |
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From afar came the glitter of burning gleams upon the skyline. |
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The kids, unaware of any gleams of steel in the twilight, laughed wildly, then closed in, until the tip of the blade pinked one of them on the arm. |
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The Magician's robe gleams and twinkles when he moves. |
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On the skyline, the hilltop gilt of the Shwedagon pagoda still gleams, but cranes loom above rows of rusty, tin roofs. Some worry about what might be lost. |
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On the angelic side gleams the curved glass of the Berlaymont, home to the European Commission, the EU's civil service and keeper of the European spirit. |
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It is probably disastrous, in whatever sphere of life one moves, not to be a poet, not to be receptive to the radiance of inspiration that gleams at some time on the dullest existence. |
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But among them there was one, the smallest, who was all white, white as snow, as white as the snow that gleams in the sun on a bright winter's afternoon. |
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The chargers spun round each other, biting and striking, while the two blades wheeled and whizzled and circled in gleams of dazzling light. |
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In the spring sunshine central Belfast gleams with glass and steel buildings, fruits of a best-of-luck splurge by the British government and the European Union. |
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The glow of a camp fire gleams through the branches. |
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How sweet it was to see the clouds race by, and the passing gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and passing, like the gladness and sorrow of a man's life. |
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In this picturesque place, the panorama is splendid: from the mountain Sainte-Victoire towards Aix, up to Vaccarès lake, which gleams westward, and in the far the city of Arles. |
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The painting substrate gleams through the paints. |
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Between thread and line, volume and drawing, this work has a simple and effective beauty and gleams according to the position of the light and the spectator. |
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Oh, the world's remote from my existence, unless all that appearency outside me, as though it always meant to be inside me, gleams from afar into me gladsomely. |
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He saw Kate coming down the glen road, driving two heifers with a cushag for switch and flashing its gold at them in the horizontal gleams of sunset. |
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