1026 examples of lustre in sentences

He saw before him Camille, with the scar upon his forehead, and the cross upon his breastCamille, the hero of the hour, who had shed such lustre upon the family name!

Mr. PUNCHINELLO: It afflicts me, one of your most assiduous readers, to notice that you cast not even so much as a lack-lustre glance at the brilliant gems that STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS scatters periodically through the columns of the Evening Mail and WOODHULL & CLAFLIN'S Weekly.

Josephus, who was born thirty-nine years after Christ, says that it was then two hundred years since the stones of the ephod had given an answer to consultations by their extraordinary lustre.

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!

o'er thy sickly-tinted cheek And half-clad form, what havoc want hath made; And the sweet lustre of thine eye doth fade, And all thy soul's sad sorrow seems to speak.

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.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field.

THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH The triumph of her lieutenant, Mountjoy, flung its lustre over the last days of Elizabeth, but no outer triumph could break the gloom which gathered round the dying queen.

Young women who have become widows almost as soon as they had become wivesmothers who have lost not only their sons, but the brethren of those sonsheads of families who have seen abruptly close all their hopes of an hereditary linethese are pangs which even the consciousness of duty performed, which even the lustre of glory won, cannot easily or speedily alleviate and assuage.

But the main business of his life in the Casa Medici was to make himself a valiant sculptor, who in after years should confer lustre on the city of the lily and her Medicean masters.

As Vasari says, "This chapel lighted up a lamp for our art which casts abroad lustre enough to illuminate the World, drowned, for so many centuries in darkness."

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

Hers the mild lustre of the blooming morn, and his the radiance of the risen day.

In the subject of this memoir, they blazed forth with superior lustre.

All that the lustre of steel ware and silver plate can produce, is, in Sheffield, exhibited in splendid arrangement, in the warerooms of some of the principal manufacturers.

Yet, however splendid the galaxy of literary stars may be, which illumine our Annuals, they owe no little of their lustre to the engravings.

Now the glorious golden sun seems in its gladdening lustre, like a smile from its creator; a smile beaming ineffable love, and joy, and peace.

Thus in the statues themselves and in their attendant genii we have a series of abstractions, symbolising the sleep and waking of existence, action and thought, the gloom of death, the lustre of life, and the intermediate states of sadness and of hope that form the borderland of both.

Michael Angelo had shed lustre on the reigns of three Popes, his predecessors.

It does not, however, appear that the English king secured the services of men so distinguished as Lionardo da Vinci, II Rosso, Primaticcio, Del Sarto, and Cellini, who shed an artificial lustre on the Court of France.

But the picturethat final inner lustre.

The final inner lustre was there.

Know by the calm her lips disclose, By the fine shades and faery lustre of her eyes, The damsel is the queen of those Whose names are written Beatrice in Paradise. While yon still towers in sunset lie, Her face oblivious of all else I'll ponder long.

Madame d'Azay, being of the court party, held widely differing views from those of her nephew, and was out of all conceit with this political ferment, while as for Adrienne, she looked upon the opening of the States-General and the grand reception of the King on the 2d of May as splendid pageants merely, to which she would be glad to lend her presence and the lustre of her beauty.

1026 examples of  lustre  in sentences