In the dark of her beautiful black hair there was the green luster of emeralds; an Indian-princess necklace of emeralds and pearls was looped around her dazzling white throat.
This consisted of a large drawing-room and two ample bedchambers, with window-balconies and a private veranda in the rear, looking off toward the green of the pines and the metal-like luster of the copper beeches.
It was daylight though not full morning--the sun had not yet risen, but there was an opaline luster in the sky, and one pale pink streak in the east like the floating pennon from the lance of a hero, which heralded his approach.
And above all, surrounded with the luster of golden rays and incrusted jewels, the uncovered Host shone serenely like the gleam of the morning star.
The rooms were magnificently decorated, and the soft luster of a thousand lamps shone on a scene of splendor almost befitting the court of a king.
I threw aside the dark glasses, and my eyes, densely brilliant, and fringed with the long lashes that had always been their distinguishing feature, shone with all the luster of strong and vigorous youth.
A regal glory of shifting colors blazed on the breast of heaven--the bay, motionless as a mirror, reflected all the splendid tints with a sheeny luster that redoubled their magnificence.
His cheeks were hollowed, and there was a different sort of luster in his eyes.
They were hard, and cold, and searching, unwarmed by her beauty, by the luster of her shining hair, by the touch of her breath as it came to him over the table.
There was no lack of luster in the black eyes that roved inquiringly from the Englishman's bantering grin to the others in the room.
In all the other things which may offer themselves for the service of your Lordship for its greater luster and increase, this royal university and its entire cloister will assist it with all promptness.
This university erected with so fortunate beginnings with all that luster worthy of all estimation, has continued to advance.
In my hands it is painted glass; in the lusterof a love like yours it may become a priceless jewel.
Sir Charles then undertook to prove that the luster of the ring was faint, compared with that of the present wearer's eyes.
Most of them shed their luster over the stern realities of life: a few glittered in the firmament of fiction.
And, significantly enough, the text which shines with such luster in Daniel Defoe's masterpiece forms also the pivot of Sir Walter Scott's weird story.
Chapter XI The Round of Life Anne was back in Avonlea with theluster of the Thorburn Scholarship on her brow.
But just for a moment their eyes met, and, behind all the luster of Ruby's, Anne saw something that made her heart ache.
On the other hand, the Athenians and the Thebans and the rest are only trying to add to the luster of their respective cities.
The armlet's yellow luster shone rich upon his arm; His war sword by his side--in strife a thunderbolt alarm.
This idealism lent luster even to his calling of weighing nails and selling washboards to the town of Anchorville.
She loved them all--the smoothness of the velvet, the sparkle of the gold, the soft luster of the pearls.
William Bellenger was conscious of a pang, for he knew how terribly he was deceiving the trusting girl sitting there upon the rock beside him, the color coming and going upon her marble cheek, and a tear dimming the luster of her eyes.
The general effect was superb, either in daylight or when a great Venetian luster in the center of the ceiling blazed with electric lights.
I will tell you; theluster had, at its lower extremity, five gilt ornaments; excessively sharp.
To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.
The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.
With this lack-luster gaze, and in the tone of thoughtful soliloquy, he said, "Has Sir Charles Bassett no eyes?
She appeared, however, at last, in a superb silk dress, the broadluster of which would have been beautiful, only the effect was broken and frittered away by six rows of gimp and fringe.
Quite a blood-red luster poured forth from the fire, and quivered on the walls and the groined roof.
It threw a shimmering luster of an ominously ruddy hue upon the oaken panels.
Now he personates a human form; then he was environed with the luster of heaven.
They seemed to have become brighter than before, shining with a greenish luster which he had not at first observed.
Dark is less fertile of images than the feeble luster of the moon.
There was no luster of exquisitely annealed glass and highly polished metals, such as dazzles one in the laboratory of the prosperous analyst.
You never saw a more brilliant metallic luster than the scales emit-- but of this you cannot judge till to-morrow.
Some way, I had expected the miraculous softening of every tender line and the unspeakable luster in her blue eyes that the flaring light revealed.
But the luster in those deep, blue orbs was not that of mirth.
As the light from the babe in Correggio's "Holy Night" illumined all the surrounding figures, so the child resting in the Lord's arms for shelter and sacred benediction began to shed luster upon the home and to lead the state.
The intellect lent a shining luster to the era of Augustus, but because it was intellect only it was gilt and not gold.
It is applied in moderate quantities, and rubbed to a luster with a flannel cloth.
Illustration: The Heads of the Tacks Form a Wearing Surface Equal to an Ordinary Heel Plate] A Bright Dip for Metal Articles of brass, copper and bronze may be given a bright luster by dipping them into a solution composed of 50 oz.
Illustration: The Eye of a Needle Slipped over a Thorn for Removing It from the Flesh] A fine luster can be given to zinc by rubbing it with kerosene or a weak solution of sulphuric acid.
In her self-love she wrought against Racine and sought to diminish the literary luster of Flèchier.
They put aside all conventional restraint, and the mental metal of those choice spirits clashed and evolved brilliant sparks, bright rays of light, the luster of which still glitters after a lapse of more than two centuries.
You belong to every age of the world, and when I say that you are an honor to mine, youth will immediately name you to give luster to theirs.
He would sit for hours with his face in his hands and his elbows on his knees, gazing out upon the mass of men and huts, with vacant, lack-luster eyes.
But this one misfortune for the moment dimmed the luster of his achievement in the eyes of the Richmond people; and, perhaps, prevented much of the good effect its decisive character might otherwise have had.
Morgan had added additional luster to his rising star, that was only to culminate in his exploits of the next year.
He retraced his steps, and again stood on the square near where the rose-window of the Gothic chapel cast a tinted luster on the clustering shrubbery.
In that last lack-luster year before the rector of the old St. James had been snuffed out in the wild motor-ride, he had come to doubt the ultimate Prescience and Purpose.
His birth would have shed a luster on the wealthiest mansion, and have imparted additional grandeur to any lordly palace.
