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"I suppose you're right. " he said, his eyes gleaming with emotion.

invited me to his home for dinner. The family had a cook in a white uniform who worked in a kitchen of gleaming chrome and shining utensils.

Off went the mail at a canter down the dark road; the lamps gleaming brightly, and the horn awakening all the echos wide and far.

China may have acquired the gleaming trappings of a modern industrial economy, but it has not developed the governance systems to match.

Instead, with no control at all, the airship spirals off into the darkness of space, the distant stars gleaming at it silently.

Prints of the gleaming white Cape Coast Castle made it look like a European palace; there was no hint at its real role.

Its gleaming sands and backdrop of pine woods and distant hills give it a pleasant and restful atmosphere.

The sea also means long stretches of jagged rock and gleaming white beaches to which millions of city people go on summer holidays.

There the waves were, boiling up in snowy spouts of spray, smiting and gnashing their crests together like the gleaming teeth of hell.

The pallor of him gleaming slightly in the semidarkness.

All of her, from her generous breasts to her gleaming thighs, blazes with furious ardor.

His teeth are gleaming like a lighthouse and his laugh is coming up out of him like the beginning of an earthquake.

It was the size of a pack of cigarettes, gleaming in white and polished stainless steel and ready to swallow hundreds of songs.

The appearance of oil painting on velvet created a gleaming effect, there was an incredibly phoney real feeling to it.

But now that both teams are in gleaming Staples Center, will there ever be any incentive for either to make that sort of bold move again?

The gleaming surface betrays the fact that like the rest of the world, Hollywood is experiencing an economic slump.

The figure is humanoid but gigantic, with gleaming metallic skin and a perfection of form that makes the heart ache.

The architects of this city's gleaming apartment blocks and office towers did not anticipate gunfire.

Some cinder block walls appeared to have collapsed and most windows were shattered in the once gleaming residential block.

In Washington, DC, new apartments have sprouted like gleaming, angular mushrooms all across the former murder capital of the United States.

I love the gleaming moonlight. Only in such a moon can one let his thoughts pile up, and merge with the color and texture of the night.

Her gleaming scales, said one fan, were as perfect as if they had been painted on.

A lance of gleaming energy slices through the air and into your foe, burning it with the power of the gods and rooting it in place.

This would take a little of the shine from Rolls's gleaming image but probably not do much damage to its prospects.

the Karbarrans might have been stokers in a nineteenth-century ironclad, allowing for their thick goggles and long, gleaming teeth.

Then the Snow Man looked, and saw a bright polished thing with a brazen knob, and fire gleaming from the lower part of it.

When a celebrity shaves her head, the public sits up and notices, but Chen Xiaoxu's gleaming scalp was only the start of the shock.

With gleaming new headquarters and enlarged cash machine networks, they began to resemble banks anywhere in the developed world.

As he walked, the corridors seemed to twist in on themselves, and soon the gleaming crystal walls melted into thickets of briars .

IN THE centre of Sarajevo, Bosnia's capital, a gleaming piece of Arabic script adorns the top of a new building.

The new government-run Amal dairy plant had huge gleaming steel tanks placed in a large hall, and a sour smell in the air.

A week after the opening, staff bustled through the clinic's gleaming halls.

Apple's system, however much it may be criticised for being closed, offers a set of sleek devices, a gleaming little family.

Xuanhua boasts a gleaming government building and a new five-star hotel and its steel mill is building new housing for workers.

From a few high rise buildings on my last trip, to a gleaming Olympic complex and corporate skyscrapers today.

China's leaders are sterilizing China, change it into a land of gleaming glass buildings and over-sized advertisements.

An old-style Mexican hotel (right) pales beneath the gleaming blue- tiled domes of the upscale Riverside Lodge in Batopilas, Mexico.

He hid in the shadow of the huge stone so that the only things showing were his gleaming yellow eyes, his bear claws, and his raccoon tail.

No one will miss the bankers who inhabit the gleaming towers of Canary Wharf, but it's a bit tough if you are a doctor or a plumber.

Tip: Open books can be read. Closed books can only be dropped or thrown. Gleaming books are valuable loot.

And investors are easily bewitched by the chance of owning a piece of a gleaming tower or shopping mall.

The hotel stands 21 stories tall and is wrapped in gleaming gray metal, with two glass elevators running up the outside.

But beneath the gleaming headlines, some of Goldman's figures suggest the financial system is still in trouble.

China's rise, it is worth noting, did not begin with highways or factories or gleaming cities.

Imagine the gleaming mini-starship you could build with all the tiny pieces from the Taj Mahal set.

His three-story house, newly built and faced in gleaming white tiles, was a testament to the prosperity generated by the distillery.

We could see the long snout of the crocodile with its gleaming lines of teeth and the reptile body behind.

Kevan Lannister had a strong suspicion of just who this Ser Robert really was beneath that gleaming white armor.

But what ultimately wins over most wavering job seekers is the sight of gleaming laboratories stocked with state-of-the-art equipment.

For now, the subject of their research is little more than a stack of gleaming chips tucked away in a laboratory drawer.

THE sun is out, the sand gleaming white, the waves rolling toward shore in clean, regular sets.

With a variety of shapes and sizes, these lakes look like (gleaming) mirrors projecting colorful light rings in the sunshine.

He moved toward the gleaming design on the wall with hands extended, five-fingered silhouettes outlined in amber.

and gleaming like a jovial eye upon the bleak waste out of doors!

Clyde Friend was bulldozing a driveway around his Yakima , Washington, shop when he first saw them in the dirt: gleaming pieces of the past.

Still, he was the very image of American people in his gleaming black shoes, gray overcoat, and new hat.

The capital's gleaming skyscrapers, Olympic venues, new subway lines and updated network of highways would be sure to wow onlookers.

A torrent of digits cascaded down shiny, black rocks and emptied into a gleaming, blue lake.

of tall buildings and wide, tree-lined boulevards along the edge of a gleaming white beach.

The area, though still relatively prosperous, is now rather run-down relative to Jakarta's gleaming office blocks nearby.

Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base.

And what it stands for, apparently, is more than just gleaming products and easy-to-use operating systems.

He stands there, with paw outstretched, his hair stiff and wiry, like a mastiff's, his cheeks ruddy, his mustache gleaming with snow.

Gleaming new stainless steel elevators wisk you to your guest room.

Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, and Fleur lined up in front of Aunt Petunia's gleaming sink.

There I lay on a carpet of finest wool on the floor of a tent hung with gleaming brocades. A page massaged my feet.

grinning broadly to reveal a set of gleaming white teeth that may have benefited from some cosmetic dentistry.

returned Silver, smiling away, but warier than ever, his eye a mere pin-point in his big face, but gleaming like a crumb of glass. 'That?

Forty tons of gleaming muscle, a humpback whale blasts out of the water near South Africa.

They are born for gleaming fame in the war while life is of no value. The country's praise is their permanent pursuit.

The kitchen is spotless, and the floors are gleaming white. There is no dirt anywhere--it's so sanitary that the whole place shines.

He is a slender man of more than average height with gleaming eyes.

It's a beautifully-crafted chess piece in the shape of a horse's head, poise and nobility captured in gleaming stone.

Baghdad "s gleaming international airport terminal has been renovated by U. S. taxpayers at a cost of nearly $39 million dollars. "

With a gleaming smile and a graceful bow, Miss Turkey, Azra Akin accepted the glittering tiara and the $ 156, 000 prize.

Everything including the air enjoys the tenderness of the moonlight gleaming serenely through the window.

TWO gleaming towers of glass rise above the wooded hills next to a Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Removed from this corruption and encased in a gleaming tower was the Jedi High Council.

Solid metal gothic cufflinks coated with a gleaming and hard-wearing rhodium finish.

Ornaments made of crystal and diamond are shining and gleaming.

By evening the rain is back, and I find myself in another gleaming three-storey food mall.

State-of-the-art equipment, including a gleaming $1. 2 million dismembering machine and sausage maker, were imported from France and Italy.

Even in Pakistan, pupils at Gulen schools learn Turkish songs, as well as benefiting from gleaming science labs.

"Nice big smile, Harry, " said Lockhart, through his own gleaming teeth.

This Polish legal-tender coin was beautifully struck in Nordic Gold, an alloy that creates exceptionally bright, gleaming gold surfaces.

A strange, almond-shaped vessel, gleaming like gold, cut across the cobalt-blue sky.

A uniformed ostiary ushered us into the reception area, a temple of understatement in exotic marbles and dark, gleaming woods.

IN A 100-year-old workshop in the centre of Berlin stands a gleaming piece of forged metal, four storeys high.

I think of you, when I see the sun's shimmer gleaming from the sea.

Local media are reporting that Citic plans to use Z15 as the site for a gleaming 500-meter skyscraper (see artists rendition above).

Halfway through, to the right where the trees were not so dense, they could see the gleaming windows of a dull red building.

to this one gleaming moment in destiny. . . this one radiant clash of shield and spear sword and bone, and flesh and blood.

The purely decorative gleaming finish is royal chromium, a substance usually reserved only for vessels serving Naboo's monarch.

Behind China's gleaming new high-rises, freeways and bullet trains, the bears see ghost towns, empty roads and superfluous rail lines.

The Silver Helms are named for their traditional tall helmets, which are polished to a mirror-like sheen and worn with gleaming white robes.

The gleaming cities of China represent the universal drive of bureaucrats to develop regulated, planned environments.

In black marker, some officers had written their names or where they were from onto the gleaming white body suits.

Fang designs them as small valuables, like preciously sparkling little jewels. Glowing, gleaming.

The interior was green, blue and red, gleaming with a vibrant jewel-like glow.

Blocks of row houses with gleaming white marble steps are a characteristic of Baltimore.

Their tall columns , simple geometric patterns and gleaming white marble were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome.

He was much more talkative than my imagination. Night life of long time make his skin dark gleaming.

who whenever he was mounted would buck just like that, though more hugely of course, enormous, gleaming, resplendent.

Over the past two decades the old guard has taken a rusting industrial base and from it made gleaming corporate giants.

The owner of a gleaming new BMW will drive around for half an hour to avoid a 50 cent parking fee.

Behind the gleaming facade of modern Singapore lies a treasure trove of old historic buildings and sites.

The cat's eyes were gleaming in the dark.

It's in the middle of a grassy field, shiny sedans behind gleaming glass walls.

Covered in chrome and gleaming neon, big rigs from across Japan shine at a truck show in Aichi Prefecture.

Favourite Motto: Only the gleaming sky stars and the ethics that we respect will touch my heart.

In the radical and profound thought of Luleng, his public will theory and jurisprudent spirit undoubtedly is the most gleaming of point.

Across China, money continues to flow into apartment blocks, gleaming office towers and shopping malls.

In an instant, a treasure of incalculable value lay gleaming before us.

The top of the notebook is gleaming red and bursting with peony flowers.

Ruth loves our gleaming stainless steel refrigerator. Sebastian loves his sneakers that light up.

He has a pair of gleaming, penetrating eyes.

One young fighter said his prayers while bending over a gleaming pistol.

You can buy espressos, lattes, cappucinos and there are a couple of glass-fronted fridges containing neat, gleaming rows of canned drinks.

The star of the afternoon, however, was a gleaming barn, painted red with white trim.

a large chunk of the Gulf's petrodollars are also being spent on gleaming skyscrapers and new airports.

In place of a polished, gleaming cylinder-head there were batteries and electric motors to drive the 2. 5 tonne aluminium giant.

The Hellcats were armed with razor-sharp claws , sword-edged shoulder horns and tail, and gleaming fangs.

He was propped up on one elbow, his dark hair sweat-curled and his eyes gleaming with desire.

Gleaming badge protect not only reform and opening up, and people's livelihood and poverty reduction in line are dazzling.

That is primed to change, with a raft of new luxury hotels and a new high-speed train arriving from Shanghai's gleaming Hongqiao station.

The gleaming new building will replace a squat and unassuming red-brick structure that once housed a hotel.

With no indoor bathroom, Zhang has to pedal about 10 minutes, past all the gleaming development, to the nearest public facilities.

Red eyes gleaming, Mad Henry drew a silver-bladed knife and casually cut the bridegroom's throat from ear to ear.

I can see the future gleaming in the new skyscrapers that line the streets in Beijing as well as in the eyes of the young people I meet.

Corridors are wide and gleaming, operating theatres newly equipped.

World traders occupy gleaming new hotels that modernize the colonial capital.

Agent Blackburn was next to him, his helmet off, leathery brown skin gleaming with perspiration.

There are signs of prosperity out by the highway, where gleaming BMW and Volvo dealerships line the road.

What to do: The journey between the two cities is a 600-mile glimpse into both China's gleaming, modern side and its rougher edges.

Like closely examining the smooth hues and thin brush strokes of Zhao Ji-hua's works, it is simple yet gleaming, and colorless.

eyes gleaming with anticipation, excitement, etc.

anticipation, excitement, etc gleaming in their eyes.

Shiniest: Gehry's New York skyscraper, a gleaming prong of stainless steel.

AFRICA'S ramshackle cities are wearing crowns of gleaming skyscrapers.

Pincers poised and eyes gleaming, a bulldog ant surveys its surroundings.

In the latter, crowds on cold errands shifted past dingy stores, in the deep recesses of which lights were already gleaming.

I opened the box and took out the gleaming gold bracelet. "For me? "

This factory's artificial marBle is as gleaming as genuine marBle.

THE gleaming, golf-ball dome of Sizewell B is visible for miles along Suffolk's North Sea coast.

The North and South Poles were the two gleaming targets for early 20th century adventurers.

Cabs and carriages, their lamps gleaming like yellow eyes, pattered by.

Something bright white was gleaming on the ground. They inched closer.

Night wears a black cloak lined with fire, studded inside with gleaming stars.

In the towns around Qixin you see stores with gleaming yellow motorbikes and adverts for 3G and coffee.

Birds around here, flowers near her, and the water gleaming like gold in the summer sunshine.

Gleaming towers of glass and steel have been built.

The royal guests were seated at the gleaming banquet tables.

Many middle-age people sport a full gleaming mouthful, much like hip-hop stars.

The light fog The light fog shrouds the gleaming mountains.

He pointed to a bright red sleekly gleaming Ferrari in the parking lot.

She gave her father, and incidentally Cowperwood, a gleaming, radiant, inclusive smile.

Presently the string of blue beads lay gleaming again before him.

The old woman leaned forward, her black eyes gleaming.

The ICC's reputation, hardly gleaming, has had yet more shine taken off it.

The cat's green, gleaming eyes opened once to look at Jaimie, then closed again.

The gleaming white Ares I-X, at its core, is a giant solid rocket booster.

Making 23 separate stops on the way upto work isn't my idea of a gleaming future, Mr. Jobs.

The gleaming bars in the vaults of the Greek National Bank are worth 4 billion euros.

I think of you, when I see the suns shimmer gleaming from the sea.

from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights; the gleaming brass on the altar; Nereids beneath the nitid moon.

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Then they turned a corner and saw a cluster of gleaming speeders in front of a tall stone building, and they knew they had found the inn.

Some memories remain as gleaming and as eternal as a diamond.

Were the gleaming tracks in the Arab desert a mirage?

what so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?

Struck in 1 Troy ounce of gleaming . 999 fine silver, just 20, 000 of these beauties were struck for worldwide release.

having a smooth, gleaming surface.

Smiling deference can seem so uniform as to constitute a gleaming wall.

The groom's eyes are gleaming with excitement.

what did surprise him was the man's beard which was dyed crimson, and curled and gleaming with scented oil.

Although most of China's biologists still work in run-down buildings, these labs are starting to bulge with gleaming new equipment.

An ambitious kid graduating from college in 1960 wanted to work in the huge, gleaming offices of Ford, or General Electric, or NASA.

The lake gleaming in the moonlight.

And they make these cool hip places with table service and clean gleaming stores.

Don: The dawn's early light, or the twilight's last gleaming.

The gleaming vision flits on.

With its gleaming shopping malls and omnipresent luxury brands, Hong Kong is an easy place to turn spendthrift.

Its blue gleaming expanse of water is backed by rolling hills on three sides.

I gazed at that gleaming wood box and something happened inside me.

Around three quarters of China's 175 gleaming airports are losing money, many are barely used and some don't have any flights at all.

It is brand new for the Aurelia line, and weighs in at 5. 7kg (12 pounds) of gleaming chrome and dense brass.

I am the stars warmly gleaming, over Darnassus softly dreaming.

Where they have been scattered under the shining light, gleaming smile of God can not be untied.

We have lost the gleaming. That is our greatest loss: the loss of the gleaming.

By this means, Hong Kong has conjured a cheap and gleaming transport system seemingly out of nothing.

I'll never forget the day my father gave me the keys and shifted to the passenger side of his gleaming black 1967 Cadillac DeVille.

Last year, I visited GE's gleaming new research facility in Shanghai.

pierre felt confused and tried to turn away from that glance , but the gleaming old eyes drew him irresistibly to them

And held out the heart for me still gleaming

sleek, glossy, satiny, silken, silky, slick The central meaning shared by these adjectives is "having a smooth, gleaming surface" :

with all the gleaming efficiency and attentive customer care that denotes

the solid, gleaming brass playing it has cultivated more recently;

Gleaming in the dark sea

Throughout the film the camera pulls back to show us gleaming new cityscapes or forests of cranes;

To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming in the grass;

Causes Analysing of the Metallic Gleaming Lacquer

highly polished silver was displayed in gleaming glass cabinets;

The four turned at the same moment to show Max their gleaming fangs and sword-edged shoulder horns;

It has beheld cities with gleaming towers

saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight;

Glint applies to briefly gleaming or flashing light:

The crystal ground reflects gleaming light

He came to take the gleaming treasure

A momentary glimpse of gleaming eyes

The gleaming golden curly hair, the rays

Who's golden heart, I saw gleaming

when stars are tired of gleaming

Her Gleaming World of Crystal Glaze