Steadily it grew, filling the room with gleams of quivering green light; then they sank quickly, and changedeven as the candle flames had doneinto a deep, somber crimson that strengthened, and lit up the room with a flood of awful glory.

The villain stood looking at me, a sardonic gleam in the back of his eye.

Suddenly that solitary organ gleamed with self-justification.

Mountains, red, gray, and black, rise close at hand on the right, whitened around their bases with banks of enduring snow; on the left swells the huge red mass of Mount Gibbs, while in front the eye wanders down the shadowy cañon, and out on the warm plain of Mono, where the lake is seen gleaming like a burnished metallic disk, with clusters of lofty volcanic cones to the south of it.

And the sky was clearer than it had been for many nights, shining high over the trees, with here and there a star faintly gleaming through the wilderness of dark and bare branches.

A nickelplated warrior gleamed from the top of a baseburner that showed pink through its mica doors.

Several times, I saw the moonlight gleam on running, white figures among the bushes, and, twice, I fired.

" (He gleamed at the Boy: "Don't suppose I need you and your perfidious tongue.")

" Catrina's broad white teeth gleamed for a moment in the flickering firelight, as she clenched them over her lower lip.

The dog drew back, and for a moment their fangs gleamed over Gray Wolf's blind face.

They gleamed under the light of the candles.

Then the gleam among the trees got wider and Lister knew they were nearing a trestle that crossed an arm of a lake.

The sun shone on its lichened front, where a creeper was going red; in the background birches with silver stems and leaves like showers of gold gleamed against somber firs.

Yet presently he saw a gleam before him that broadened with each step, and, of a sudden, was out beneath the skya narrow strip wherein stars twinkled, and so beheld again friar Martin's white frock flitting on, ghost-like, before.

Thus I waited alone in the darkness, watching the lights of the port gleaming across the placid waters until nearly one o'clock, when the gay party returned, and the Baron greeted them merrily as though nothing had happened.

" The Knight shook his head with a faint smile, but for all that, Robin's words made him more blithe of heart, for in truth hope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.

Ask the swain Who journey's homeward from a summer day's Long labour, why, forgetful of his toils And due repose, he loiters to behold The sunshine gleaming as through amber clouds O'er all the western sky; full soon, I ween, His rude expression and untutored airs, Beyond the power of language, will unfold The form of beauty smiling at his heart How lovely!

Turbaned heads were seen gazing from every roof, and armor gleamed along the walls; yet not a single warrior sallied from the gates.

Music forever and ever,a whirl, a rush of music, always going on and on; and ever that maze of movement, till the eyes were feverish and the mouth parched; ever that mist of faces, now one gleaming out of the chaos, now another, some like the faces of angels, some miserable, weary, strained with smiling, with the monotony, and the endless, aimless, never-changing round.

But the Duchess spake not, nor blenched even when the dagger gleamed to strikeO sweet God of mercy, to strike!

The lights in the gallery were extinguished, and then I perceived a lamp held at the end of a wand of crystal, which gleamed above Esmo's head, and sufficed to guide us, giving light enough to direct our footsteps and little more.

and forth into the light came one clad as a white friara tall man and slender, and upon his shoulder he bare a mattock that gleamed beneath the moon.

The teeth gleamed between his slightly parted lips.

Sometimes one column from a lonely house would rise up higher than the cities' smoke, and gleam by itself in the sun.

"Patience and hope, that keep the soul, Unruffled and serene, Though floods of grief beneath it roll, I learn, when calm and pure, I see the floating water-lily, Gleam amid shadows dark and chilly.