Wings extremely short; a sheeny grebe-like plumage, and long stiff tail, often carried erect.
Two heavy plaits lay like sheeny snakes over her bosom and the white sheet.
Her face is fairer than the Stars of Wealth[FN#477] * And sheeny brows the crescent Moon excel.
In dead Duessa's bower there still hung her mirror of steel, whose sheeny surface had often answered to her languorous eyes and moon-white face.
The black towers slumbered in a mist of green, girded with sheeny water, tented by the azure of a southern sky.
When she turned to confront Doctor Ingraham the "light face" was brightly pink and the "terrible Sheeny eyes" held a mixture of embarrassment and anger.
But don't you care, no one couldn't never to know like you ain't a for sure Sheeny the while you got such terrible Sheeny eyes.
Morris," said Teacher, "Morris, did you ever see a Sheeny with a nose like mine?
Away below, over the Zulu country, a thick white mist, in billowy masses of cloud, was rolling back, revealing distant rock and dark forest belt shimmering in sheeny patches of dew beneath the unbroken blue.
Here are yet the stalwart trees, the tall companions, that nodded on our shy confessions; the ivy hangs in sheeny spray upon the wall.
On little fir-patches mounted numerous blackcock of sheeny feather, and the owls began to hoot in the wood beyond.
We passed a multitude of orange and lemon groves with all their deep, rich, sheeny verdure.
I haven't seenSheeny lately, but I'll try to get hold of him, and I'll have the word passed along.
You might get hold of Sheeny Foster, Wagnell, or Poodle Murphy, or Buck Taylor.
The heat was great, greater than most women would have cared to face, but the blue cloudlessness of the sky, the sheeny glow of the sun upon the free open country was so much delight to Lilith Ormskirk.
In front, the huge Table Mountain rears its massive wall, dwarfing the mud-town lying at its base and the bristling masts of shipping, its great line mirrored in the sheeny surface.
The chances are that the trapper will see the black fox himself almost as soon as he sees his tracks; for the sheeny coat that is black fox's beauty betrays him above the snow.
Is it at some period of the transition that the black fox becomes a silver fox, with the gray hairs as sheeny as the black and each gray hair delicately tipped with black?
Once the ride down which she passed was carpeted not with green, but with the silvery, sheeny leaves of some creeping plant that in the distance had a shimmer like that of water at evening.
Poor lad; it was like drawing his blood, to take away this prospect of a feed, and his eyes filled with tears as Sheeny gathered them all in her apron and marched off triumphantly.
The silence of their flails informed the quick ears of old Sheeny of this pause in their labour.
Sheeny and Shaan, in the utmost alarm; “the pig is mad!
One fair, day when Morris and Sheeny had betaken themselves to a distant corn and cattle mart, the girls, as usual, commenced their preparation for a regular junketing.
Now all the family were seated round; Hukin occupying a chair that commanded the passage, in case the culprits aimed to escape, and Sheeny with her female brood, bursting with curiosity to hear what diableries Hukin had to unfold.
Sheeny kept her bed this morning, overcome by the tumults of the preceding evening, and Shaan officiated in her place.
Both Morris and Sheeny were at length roused from their stupor by the inquiry of Hukin,—“Well, what be you going to do with them?
Sheeny Greeg the farmer’s wife, “for he brings us nothing but trouble.
Without judgment, or advice, except from those self-interested conceited nurses, who were more ignorant than herself; Sheeny Greeg sought every delicacy to coax the waned and pampered appetites of her afflicted ones.
The scene was almost taking a tragic turn when Sheeny changed its spirit by attacking Moses with a birch broom, while one of the younger was pricking him in the breech with a toasting-fork, till he blared like a beaten calf.
Old Sheeny was certainly a notable manager, an economist to the back bone.
Sheeny Greeg, the careful mistress of this mountain mansion, had no idea of inflicting such an evil on those favoured beings confided to her protection.
As nobody answered her interesting inquiry, Sheeny continued to bite her nails and drum the devil’s tattoo with the heel of the wooden shoe; while Hukin Heer grinned like a demon at the mischief which he had made.
I will not only find the feast, but I will manage matters so well, that Sheeny Greeg herself shall cook it for us.
So Firuzah journeyed to Samaria, and when her time was fulfilled she gave birth to a boy babe, and became the mother of a Prince who in favour was resplendent as the sheeny day.
In the bright glow of the lamps nothing could be more delightful than the sight of all those bare, sheeny shoulders, and those supple necks, above whose napes were coiled tresses of fair or raven hair.
The rose-bush was already in sight in the distance, with its abundance of pale-yellow sheeny blossoms.
The grey fog was now a sheeny blue sun-mist, veiling the end of the long streets and the distant towers.
Vel, I ses, if that aint a sheeny nachez, vel, I vil get misha mishinnah.
With that out came her hatpin, and she made a lunge at Sheeny Rose.
And Sheeny Rose was there to see that cock-eyed Grace didn't come to the wake.
The pot," he said, "goes to the sheeny and his kid for their Christmas, or my name is mud.
Sheeny Rose made up in superior suppleness of limb for the pent-up malice of the other.
Sheeny Rose was the master of ceremonies and kept the door.
I had always deemed her fairest in sheeny white, and she knew it, while Herdegen had taken blue for his color; and behold she wore both, for love per chance of both brothers.
This wild shore was curtained with various kinds of lichen, a rich web, sheeny with moisture, like some gorgeous hanging of silk.
The fellow had lurched out of the crowd in such a manner as to brush partially aside the girl's veil, permitting the glare of "Sheeny Mike's" lights to fall full upon her revealed face.
There's Sheeny Mike and Big Otto and half a dozen others right there in front o' the Buckingham that couldn't stay to breathe twice in Argentine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheeny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
