123 adjectives to describe lustre

The prevailing colour of this bird is black, with a metallic lustre, and a gleaming of blue steel about its breast and wings.

Scales dark brown to nearly black with a peculiar silky lustre.

The fame of Demosthenes the general has been dimmed by the superior lustre of his great countryman, Demosthenes the orator.

And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God.

And at Santa Sofia the great cross with the beautiful golden lustre is gone, and one says it is the 'tosi.'

The flowers come out from the centre of these leaves in the same manner, and by their silvery green lustre give a pleasing variety to the darker verdure of the whole mass.

A few weeks before he died he wrote: 'I see many symptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at last with additional lustre.' Ib.

A mild lustre, inexpressibly clear, seems to pervade the picture, and beam forth the revelation of a white soul.

His victories, exaggerated by report, and embellished by the fancy of the hearers, cast a faint and deceitful lustre over the declining cause of royalty.

In the dark her eyes shone with a dull, steady lustre, unblinking, unquestioning, always unquestioning.

ON ATTENDING WITH HER, AS SPONSORS, AT A CHRISTENING Lady! who didstwith angel-look and smile, And the sweet lustre of those dear, dark eyes, Gracefully bend before the font of Christ, In humble adoration, faith, and prayer!

You never saw a more brilliant metallic lustre than the scales emitbut of this you cannot judge till to-morrow.

It can shed a mellow lustre on dingy rooms, frayed carpets, and shabby furniture; nay, I have seen its tender rays impart a rare and spiritual beauty to an old, worn, long-loved face; but on the other hand, when this magic light is quenched, or even temporarily shaded, not all the illuminations of a royal birthday are brilliant enough to dispel the gloom its absence leaves about the heart.

"My friend says that there were ninety-three stones, all rubies and sapphires; they were of exquisite lustre and extraordinary size.

But as Antiquity exhibits no character of such unclouded lustre, we have great reason to conclude, that such a character could owe its existence only to the pure and sublime spirit of our Christian Faith.

Brother William Turner being appointed to accompany him, they left Nain together on March the 11th, 1782, early in the morning, with very clear weather, the stars shining with uncommon lustre.

His character, free from the usual spots of human imperfection, gave an appropriate lustre to the cause, making it look yet more lovely, and enticing others to its support.

And how did he of unmeasured lustre attain the very height of real power, since all the three worlds were as much under his subjection, as they are under that of Vishnu of mighty soul?

His eyes were bright, and set in deep cavernous recesses, and, now that he was more than half-intoxicated, gleamed with unnatural lustre.

As ze pure lustre of ze diamant of Golconde to ze distorted rays of a morsel of bottle-glass, so my grrand invention to ze modes of ze telegraph in vogue at present!

The heaven itself is said to be fair or foul: fair buildings, fair pictures, all artificial, elaborate and curious works, clothes, give an admirable lustre: we admire, and gaze upon them,

The rug was a Persian of rare lustre.

They could at best descry each other but indistinctly in the universal pervading glooma gloom upon which electric lamps, shining dimly yellow in their vast lustres, produced almost no impression.

For it changed its vivid lustre into a dark colour, when the Hebrews were to be punished by death for their sins.

The long white front of the city, facing the East, glowed with a bright rosy lustre, on a ground of the clearest blue.

123 adjectives to describe  lustre