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Example sentences for "shining like"

  • At this time came Sir Tristram, riding at a free pace, shining like to a figure of silver.

  • And her eyebrows were very black and fine and were joined in the middle like two fine lines drawn together with a pencil, and her eyes were narrow and black, shining like those of a snake.

  • And the armor of Sir Tristram was white, shining like to silver, and the horse was altogether white, and the furniture and trappings thereof were all white, so that Sir Tristram glistened with extraordinary splendor.

  • Millions of ardent lips had pressed kisses on the wall with such intensity of love that the stone was as though calcined, streaked with black veins, shining like marble.

  • Her hair lay spread out all over the pillow of the couch, shining like to pure gold, and in the midst of the hair her face shone very white, like to pure clear wax for whiteness.

  • For the castle of the town and the houses of the town were all built else of stone or else of brick, and a thousand windows sparkled in the brightness of the day, shining like to stars in heaven.

  • Rather low in the east was the Morning-star, shining like silver, with a bluish tinge of steel.

  • Ivan Tsarevich woke at daylight; the robe was on the table, shining like fire, so that the whole chamber was lighted up.

  • Koshchéi looked through the window, saw the fence gilded, shining like fire.

  • There exists a deer gold-skinned and spotted with various colours shining like hundreds of jewels.

  • She saw a ruru-deer of resplendent brilliancy, shining like a heap of jewels of every kind, standing on a throne and surrounded by the king and his assembly, preaching the Law in a human voice of an articulate and distinct sound.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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