The advance-guard has moved off, the brigadier is just waiting to see the baggage fairly started, when a sudden spark gleams out from a knoll above the camp which the falling-in night picquet has just evacuated.
O war, thou hast thy fierce delight, Thy gleams of joy intensely bright; Such gleams as from thy polished shield Fly dazzling o'er the battle-field.
At intervals were to be heard the patrols going their rounds in the fitful gleams of the moonlight, which were succeeded by black and rolling masses of cloud chasing each other in the sky, still thunder-laden and lurid.
To the eye of a soldier the place was impregnable, and as the scouts scanned the country round by the fitful gleams of occasional moonlight they saw that twenty well-armed and steady men could hold the rock against an army.
During the long and weary illness Loo had three friends whose visits were to her soul likegleams of sunshine on a cloudy day--Miss Tippet, Emma Ward, and a poor artificial-flower maker named Ziza Cattley.
As she entered the parlor, wavering gleams of sunset lighted up the pearl-colored paper, softened by lace-shadows from the windows.
We know the last prismatic benedictions of the sun it means to hide from us--the strange gleams of despairing light on the other clouds--clouds that are not in it, mere outsiders or spectators.
This short conversation, some weeks on in the story, lets in one or two gleams of side-light.
The nurse thought surely the still white face she saw in the intermittent gleams of a lamp-flame flickering out was the face of a dead man.
Rifles drying themselves in the African sun, which blazed in gleams between the clouds.
But the first gleams of day showed the thinness of the clouds, and our faces were again set against the steep hillside which leads to the upper pasturages.
The mists, however, did not descend on the mountains, and looking back we enjoyed the peculiar effect of the upper peaks seen through a watery veil and lit by fitful gleams of sunshine.
The mountain-forms were growing less ghostly, and the first pale gleams across the sky were reflected still more faintly on the surface of the lake as we ran ashore on the beach at Varenna.
In the far distance a snow-peak in the range above Val Leventina gleams behind the folds of the nearer mountains.
Nose-rings flashed, and in the dim station light I caught faint gleams of pastel scarves--sea-green and rose.
As we traversed a dark patch, dullgleams like heat lightning flashed over the leaves, and, looking down, I saw that my khaki was aglow from the illuminated insect within.
Less versed in things of the future, despite my gleams of reason, I resort to experiment with a view to fathoming the question.
This caution on the Fly's part does not at all surprise me: motherhood everywhere has great gleamsof perspicacity.
Yet it is full of some of the highest and the finest gleams of poetry: indeed, everything seems to be viewed by the mind of a poet which is described in it.
His eyes, ardently blue and tender and intense, danced with incautious gleams of laughter.
It is some past attainment of the soul, a jewel won in some old battle which it may have forgotten, but none the less this gleams on its tiara, and the star-flame inspires others to hope and victory.
Memory gleams like a gem at night Through the gloom of to-day for me, Bringing dreams of a summer bright At Chateauguay.
The air is soft as a lover's jest, And gently gleams the light; The zither sounds, and thy soul is blest To join in this delight.
The sungleams on its wave With splendor bright; But where the pearl lies buried in its cave Is deepest night.
Blacker and nearer grew the clouds torn by whirlwinds, and shooting out lurid gleams of lightning, that flashed and curled along the water like fiery serpents chasing each other into their boiling depths.
Zillah's brow blackened, and her eyes shot forth gleams of anger, but the hushing tones of her voice were unbroken, and she made a gentle effort to cradle the restless head once more upon her bosom.
She could only see her course clearly when flashes of lightning shot at intervals through the trees, and broke in gleams of scattered fire among the waves, now dashing and leaping angrily around her.
His cheeks grew deadly pale from a feeling deeper than fear or cold, and his eyes flashed back the gleams of light that reached him from the burning tree with a wild splendor that no mortal man had ever seen in them before.
The sun went down this evening in an embankment of clouds, shedding pale, watery gleams upon the sea, that threatened rough weather.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gleams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
