Shining Sentence Examples

The warm sun was shining on us.

He thought that a wonderful light was shining around him.

Her dark shining hair was pulled back loosely with bejeweled combs and hung in loose curls down her back.

He is gorgeously clothed and carries shining weapons.

You were my knight in shining armor.

When she woke again, the sun was shining on her face.

Early in May, the oaks, hickories, maples, and other trees, just putting out amidst the pine woods around the pond, imparted a brightness like sunshine to the landscape, especially in cloudy days, as if the sun were breaking through mists and shining faintly on the hillsides here and there.

But I am a patient man and the sun is shining, the brook that fronts my home on wheels is singing.

The fruit consists of black shining drupes about the size of a, pea.

It is a dark yellow powder, which fuses at a high temperature, the liquid on cooling depositing shining tabular crystals; at a white heat it loses oxygen and yields the monoxide.

Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf.

But Prince Andrew did not see that, he saw her shining eyes which were beautiful.

They have a shining, marble-grey and brown, thick, leathery outer coat, within which is a thin dark-coloured brittle coat.

Even when she feels abased, I can see her beauty shining through.

The sphere of frozen moonlight gleamed, overshadowing the sunlight, shining like a beacon to light the path to a glorious future.

How can you go up to people and tell them they 're walking around shining like the sun?

The Yeltz finished the stronger side, with former Aston Villa midfielder Paul Birch shining.

It 's like The Shining directed by Chris Morris as the voice of a young girl taunts a man locked in a darkened room.

They give off some faint light, but they are not quite big enough to start shining through thermonuclear fusion.

She regaled me with her war stories, her eyes shining as she told of the countless near-misses I never tired of hearing.

He would also witness the strange Light shining like a great star, and he would tremble with fear.

And skylarks break from their hides in the tufted grass, as if drawn up on shining threads, their wings splashed with gold.

Basically, the light or fan has a battery inside that is charged by the semi-conductor panel whenever the sun is shining on it.

The company was named Souleiado, which means "a ray of sun shining through the clouds after a rain."

Heavy light blue eye shadow is synonymous with the 1970s, and light pink shining lip gloss was commonly worn in the 1980s.

She understands the art of maneuvering the spotlight and keeping it shining on you, and her fragrance reflects this knowledge.

Commonly referencing eyeliner, it can also stand for rouge, lip color, and even hair shining oils.

The Clairol Shining Star Lighted Makeup Mirror offers two evenly balanced light settings, tilting and angle adjustment, and a trim, lightweight design for everyday use.

Overdressing on the first date may put unnecessary pressure on yourself and your date to be on your best behavior and prevent the real you from shining through.

You do not want the sun shining directly in front or behind them, since this will create harsh shadows or cause people to squint when they're looking at the camera.

Despite these shining attributes, Carl is frequently reduced to paying for his, ahem, female companionship.

A young man going to a medieval prom could dress as a jester, peasant, or even become his date's knight in shining armor, minus the horse of course.

The sky was blue, the birds were singing and the sun shining ever so brightly, our pastor made it just as planned.

With a breathtaking view of the ocean shimmering in the background, a spate of soft, hot sand underfoot and the sun shining down on friends and family, the magic of the moment is somehow amplified in this lovely setting.

If you enjoy the sun shining through when you wake up in the morning, opt for a sheer curtain or drapery that captures natural light.

A knight on a horse beneath the castle may reflect some of the fairy tales about princesses and knights in shining armor.

According to ABC News, the Maoist Shining Path insurgency killed nearly 70,000 Peruvians during the 1980s and 1990s, nearly bringing Peru into a total collapse.

Kevin Federline - Federline has turned out to be a knight in shining armor…for Sean and Jayden that is, not so much for Britney.

The sun was shining on Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz's Saturday, May 17 wedding but the guests (says a snitch) were dressed in less than bright and cheery spring wedding colors.

If anyone wants to learn about how to be a complete idiot, just take a look at Pete Doherty's latest shining example of the extent of his non-existent good decision making skills.

Poms have a double coat, a soft undercoat and a shining coarse over coat.

Scientists and physicians saw nudism not as a return to Eden (although this trope certainly occurred in nudist writing), but as a path forward to a shining new modernity in which science, rather than superstition, would lead the way.

Division. A. nitida is a Mexican half-hardy evergreen with shining green leaves and white flowers.

From black roots spring healthy tufts of leaves with two or three pairs of shining leaflets; the flower-buds appearing soon afterwards, almost covering the plant with beautiful purple and blue blooms in April.

B. Roezli is a dense compact bush, 16 to 20 inches high, with shining green leaves.

Silene Pumilio - Like our Cushion Pink in its dwarf, firm tufts of shining green leaves, though these are a little more fleshy and not so spiny.

America, with shining dark green leaves, heart-shaped, and about half an inch long, thickly set upon graceful stems in clusters of three.

Olearia Insignis - The plant is dwarf, branched, the branches as thick as the little finger; the leaves from 3 to 5 inches long, 2 inches broad, rounded at the ends, thick and hard, shining green on the upper surface.

In the autumn these give place to red bladder-like fruits of attractive appearance, filled with shining black seeds.

C. diacantha has foliage of shining green, marking with silvery lines, and the spines are ivory white.

Another kind from the Balkans is the Bereczki Quince (also known as the Vranja, from its native place), a tree of robust growth with large leaves, very free even from a small size in its large golden fruits with a clear shining skin.

Bristly Green Briar (Smilax Bona-Nox) - The root-stocks have large tubers; the stems are slightly angled, the branches often four-angled, the leaves green and shining on both sides, and their margins fringed with needle-like prickles.

L. dendroideum is a very distinct Club Moss, worth a place in the rock garden, its little stems, 6 to 9 inches high, much branched, and clothed with small, bright, shining green leaves.

Senecio Clivorum - From China, with large heart-shaped leaves of shining green, a foot or more across, and tall much-branched heads of orange-yellow flowers with a brown centre, 2 to 3 inches wide, in July and August.

The smooth lanceolate leaves are shining green; flowers white.

Its broadly-oval pointed leaves are of deep shining green, changing in autumn to varied tints of purple, red, and yellow.

Its leaves are Plum-like and shining, with saw-like edges, and the flowers pure white, fragrant, with prominent yellow-tipped stamens.

Campanula Pusilla - Smaller than C. caespitosa, rarely exceeding 4 inches in height, the shining green leaves heart-shaped and toothed, the flowers pale blue, in racemes, in June and July.

They are also of high utility for cutting, lasting long and well in the house where their refreshing shining green is ever welcome.

The foliage is thick, with three or five leaflets of a deep shining green.

Hutchinsia - A neat little alpine plant, H. alpine having shining leaves and white flowers, in clusters about 1 inch high, quite free in sandy soil, and easily increased by division or seeds.

The leaves are entire, tapering at both ends, and covered with long coarse hairs of a shining yellow color.

There are several varieties of the Laurustinus, one of which, the var. lucidum, has fine large leaves, shining and almost smooth on both sides, and the flowers and flower-trusses also are larger.

L. alpina, a native of New Zealand, is dwarf, and produces from a creeping rhizome abundance of dark shining green fronds, 4 to 6 inches in height.

The fine green leaves are shining, fleshy, and slightly wavy; stems twining, tinged with red, growing with extraordinary rapidity, and bearing many tubercles.

The stem is a dark green, shining like enamel; the internodes at the base are very close together, not more than 1 1/2 inches to 2 inches.

Funkia Ovata - Has large tufts of broad, deep, shining green leaves.

The plant is almost evergreen; leaves dark green and shining; the flowers large, milk-white, sweetly scented, of a pretty cupped form.

Puget Sound Fir (Abies Grandis) - A stately tree 200 feet high, with dark green cones 2 to 3 inches long, and dark shining leaves, white below.

Tasmanian Laurel (Anopterus Glandulosa) - A vigorous evergreen shrub with dark, shining green leaves, bearing long, erect, terminal racemes of white cup-shaped flowers, resembling the blossoms of Clethra arborea, but larger.

They are held well above the water, shining with an almost silvery lustre in bright sunlight, and scented like a tea-rose.

Winter Aconite (Eranthis) - E. hyemalis is a pretty early plant with yellow flowers surrounded by a whorl of shining green.

This will give your acoustic guitar a ringing, shining tone.

Sikkens Cetol Dek Finish receives shining reviews across the board.

This can build up on the surface and stop the gold from shining.

The depiction can be of Jesus with the heart shining or flaming in his chest or just a torso with the heart.

Most people feel great in the summer; the sun is shining, it's warm, the days are beautiful, and people's moods are uplifted.

In combat situations, the men and women need to be able to see in the dark without bringing attention to themselves by shining lights.

Eagle Eye allows you to cut the glare of the winter mornings, and offer light enough lenses to keep you safe when the sun's going down but still shining in your eyes.

The Shining Force series is a turned-based RPG that utilizes squares to make your movements.

If that's what you're looking for, you'd be better off playing Secret of Mana or Shining Force NEO.

Samus and the bounty hunters have detailed animations, and small touches like glowing eyes or shining armor make them leap into reality.

Let your business management skills come shining through and play tycoon games for fun and profit!

With a deep ruby color, it has the unmistakable Aussie terrior shining through.

Position the light source behind the bottle with the light shining through the neck.

Cell phone skins are non-permanent decorations that let a little more of your personality come shining through.

While the spec sheet may not be any different from the more conventional silver or black Motorola RAZR, the pink RAZR is as popular as it is because it gives the user an opportunity to let her (or his) personality come shining through.

Let your personality come shining through.

The Minolta/Hill-Rom Air-Shields Transcutaneous Jaundice Meter accurately measures bilirubin levels by shining lights of different colors through the skin and measuring the reflection, eliminating the need for blood tests via heel pricks.

Blink reflex is stimulated by momentarily shining a bright light directly into the neonate's eyes causing him or her to blink.

Pupillary reflex occurs with darkening the room and shining a penlight directly into the neonate's eye for several seconds.

Front teeth may be inspected for decay by shining a light from behind the tooth.

Transillumination-A technique of checking for tooth decay by shining a light behind the patient's teeth.

It is preferable to have the room not be too bright with electrical light or sunlight shining on the baby's face.

Leave-in treatments, hair masks, shining and smothing serums, along with styling aids such as mousse, finishing spray, texturizer, and volumizing products are often among the hair care items a brand may offer.

In its heyday this shampoo's marketing campaign claimed to stop men dead in their tracks as a young woman with a shining, bouncy mane flounced past them on the sidewalk.

Pack a serious punch of pizzazz into your style with an allover shining mist.

Many new homeschoolers turn to Cathy Duffy because she gives honest, unbiased opinions on a variety of curriculum and has a reputation of shining the proverbial light on the best curriculums available.

A shining endorsement from someone you trust is far more valuable than any certifications or flashy advertisements.

The publication's latest story about the singer, Jennifer Hudson Makes Homecoming Concert a Family Affair, describes her shining performance, mentioning her engagement ring.

Also available for additional charges are shoe shining service, babysitting services, dry cleaning, translation services, currency exchange, medical services, car rentals, and an on-site concierge.

The hotel itself has 201 rooms with laundry and shoe shining service, 24-hour room service and complimentary Internet access (great for working from your hotel room).

Not only was this bikini featured on the cover of FHM magazine, but the metallic finish will leave you shining like pure gold!

The Shining Stars stuffed animal collection features various animals kids love, like cows, elephants, unicorns and a snowy owl.

When the ultraviolet light from the sunlight shines on the skin, it's also shining on a cholesterol compound in the skin.

The flowers are in full bloom, and the sun is shining brilliantly, so why not choose a dress that's equally spectacular?

The story goes that Luther walked through an evergreen forest the day before Christmas and saw stars shining through the trees.

Gemini personalities crave the limelight and know how to keep it shining in their direction.

In fact, if he'd been born in a different time, he'd have been a knight in shining armor and the king.

The knight in shining honor persona is the perfect Sagittarius profile.

Several factors, including the sign's planetary ruler and house, help contribute to Sagittarius' shining personality.

Your career prospects are shining, and your income increases.

Is the moon, early morning sun, or a street light shining through the window?

The Shining Stars plush toy is the perfect gift for girls, boys, and adults.

Take the secret code and log onto the Shining Stars website.

The Shining Star plush animals are also very popular with kids of all ages.

The Winter Olympics for kids can be a shining example of teamwork, friendly competition, and just plain fun with winter sports.

Stanley Kubrick treated us to an unsettling version of Stephen King's The Shining in 1980, the same year that Sigourney Weaver first squared off against the H.R.

The Shining is based off of the book by the same name.

This hotel is best known as the inspiration for Stephen King's book, The Shining, and it was used for the filming of two TV versions of the book.

The sun was shining, so why couldn't they get a bearing on their direction by the sun's position?

If you're actually shining the shoe, you're trying to bring a high-gloss shine to the upper.

Today the red soles are the shining stars in many a woman's closet.

Of course, no soap opera would be complete without those shining moments that make it so successful.

Why not consider a standard skull, but with glowing yellow pinpoints of light shining out of the blackened sockets?

Back then you could make out more stars in the night sky than you can today due to the lack of pollution that prevents light from shining through the atmosphere.

Thehe other hotel amenities, guests will be delighted to hear, include limousine service, a multi-lingual concierge, an on-site fitness club, an on-site gemologist, shoe shining service, daily housekeeping, and valet parking.

The Omega Constellation Quartz is a shining example of what Omega has to offer for men.

The Breitling Crosswind is a shining example of the quality that goes into Breitling watches.

Often times, you can use a shining cloth and shining cleaner to give your car's finish a high-gloss appearance.

Trimming trees and shrubs that block the sun from shining on your deck is a good way to combat mildew.

They are, however, romantic and feminine thanks to the shining finish of the fabric and the embellishments that are sometimes present, such as embroidery or lace.

For something with a bit more novelty, you can try Mundco's shining boxers, which not only give you the sense of wearing armor, but are even decorated with medieval style swords to enhance the effect.

In non-musical work, Starr spent a season playing Mr. Conductor on the PBS children's program Shining Time Station.

Flashlight tag is a great game for camping out birthday parties, where the person who is "it" holds a flashlight and must find kids who are hiding and running by shining it on them.

The show was a hit for VH1, but for the Hogans it ended up shining a media spotlight on them during some very difficult hours.

Unfortunately, Christian Bale in the role of Batman isn't the shining star of this film.

In ancient folklore and mythology, certain fairies were believed to appear as tall and shining.

Ancient Celtic literature shows fairies as tall, shining, otherworldly beings who are said to be remarkably beautiful and have an occasional disposition for trifling with humans.

For example, in the Shining a young women in the bathtub turns into an old decaying woman, and Zelda, the elderly sister in Pet Cemetery died of spina bifida - the elderly, sickness and death became a recurring theme.

Remember, during daylight hours, the sun is always shining, even if the sky is overcast.

By shining a light on difficult and debilitating illnesses, it's sometimes possible to raise funding and research monies to focus on the cure for such conditions.

Aside from being the band leader, the drum major also has to be something of a shining star, and this means some special things about their uniform.

She woke to bright sunlight shining through her window and jumped from the bed, tugging on a pair of shorts and a blouse.

In the next town over, the sun might be shining.

He was so lithe and sure-footed – her knight in shining armor.

The mouth of the pitcher has a corrugated rim (peristome) formed by incurving of the margin, the convex surface of which is firm and shining.

Visceral mass still coiled spirally; shell thin and shining.

The mackerel proper (genus Scomber) are readily recognized by their elegantly shaped, well-proportioned body, shining in iridescent colours.

Others again, like Gasteracantha and Acrosoma, belonging to the Argyopidae, are armed with sharp and strong abdominal spines, and these spiders are hard-shelled like beetles and are spotted with black on a reddish or yellow ground, their spines shining with steel-blue lustre.

Of the miracles of Jesus, Bushnell says, " The character of Jesus is ever shining with and through them, in clear self-evidence leaving them never to stand as raw wonders only of might, but covering them with glory as tokens of a heavenly love, and acts that only suit the proportions of His personal greatness and majesty " (Nature and the Supernatural, p. 364).

The building was surmounted by a weathercock in the form of a bronze Triton; it contained a water-clock to record the time when the sun was not shining.

The basal half is dull white, oval in section and coarsely fibrous, the middle part smooth, shining and round, and the tip black.

Their material is of pale yellow clay with shining black glaze, and they are decorated with skilfully drawn red figures.

The nectarine is a variation from the peach, mainly characterized by the circumstance that, while the skin of the ripe fruit is downy in the peach, it is shining and destitute of hairs in the nectarine.

But this hopefulness was a shining military quality in the midst of the despondency that settled upon the allied generals after their first failures, and at Balaklava and Inkermann he displayed the promptness and resolution of his youth.

H 2 O, forms white, shining, monoclinic scales.

He was invariably dressed in a suit of the most spotless black, as if going to a dinner party; his white neck-cloth was fresh from the laundress's hands, and his hat shining like a racer's coat.

The best - known is Acanthus mollis (brankursine, or bears' breech), a common species throughout the Mediterranean region, having large, deeply cut, hairy, shining leaves.

For in this Logos is Life, and this Life is a Light which, though shining in darkness, cannot be suppressed by it.

It has round, ash-coloured, smooth branches; lanceolate, or ovate-oblong, somewhat leathery, shining leaves, 4 to 61 in.

It is similar in size to the brown bear, but its fur is of a soft even texture, and of a shining black colour, to which it owes its commercial value.

Iodine is a greyish-black shining solid, possessing a metallic lustre and having somewhat the appearance of graphite.

The twelve constellations of the zodiac form an ingenious machine, a great wheel with buckets, which pour into the sun and moon, those shining ships that sail continually through space, the portions of light set free from the world.

They are seldom persons of shining ability or high standing in their communities.

Wohler reduced the sesquioxide by zinc, and obtained a shining green powder of specific gravity 6.81, which tarnished in air and dissolved in hydrochloric acid and warm dilute sulphuric acid, but was unacted upon by concentrated nitric acid.

C. Ullmann's name of stilpnosiderite, from the Greek ariAirvOs (shining) is sometimes applied to such kinds of limonite as have a pitchy lustre.

Thus, water, moisture, weep, tears, inundate, irrigate," &c. The word a can also mean " shining, glistening," an idea evidently developed from the shining rippling of water.

The upper epidermis is frequently smooth and shining, and sometimes becomes very hard and dense.

Being, as naturally shining to our mind, must therefore be what men call the light of reason.

Thorium chloride, ThC1 4, is obtained as white shining crystals by heating a mixture of carbon and thoria in a current of chlorine.

Metals are shining, fusible, ductile, simple bodies.

If it was a merit to believe without evidence, it was a shining virtue to believe in the teeth of evidence.

Great Britain, he said, was a shining example of the wisdom of a high tariff.

The Vedic deities of the nobler sort, the shining devas, the asuras (the " breathers " or living, perhaps to be identified with the Scandinavian cesir) rose above a vast multitude of demonic powers, many of them doubtless derived from the local customs and beliefs of the native races whom the immigrant Aryans subdued.

The beautiful reddish-brown shining cones, roundly ovate in shape, with pyramidal scale apices, have been prized from the ancient days of Rome for their edible nut-like seeds, which are still used as an article of food or dessert.

It is situated on the "burn" from which its name is derived, the Bannock (Gaelic, ban oc, "white, shining stream"), a right-hand affluent of the Forth, which was once a considerable river.

Gheve opium formerly came over as a distinct kind, but is now mixed with other varieties; the pieces form small rounded cakes, smooth and shining like those of Angora, about 3-6 oz.

According to Dr Reveil, Persian opium usually contains 75 to 84% of matter soluble in water, and some samples contain from 13 to 30% of glucose, probably due to an extract or syrup of raisins added to the paste in the pots in which it is collected, and to which the shining fracture of hard Persian opium is attributed.

It crystallizes in shining rhombic prisms from its aqueous solution and as delicate needles from alcohol.

It is worked in Devonshire under the name of shining ore.

Etymologically the word "silver" probably refers to the shining appearance or brightness of the metal.

The Latin argentum is cognate with the Greek iip y yupos, silver, which in turn is derived from ap-yos, shining.

Beyond, once more beyond, spreads the Scythian steppe, not the dead level of Lombardy, but an expanse of long low modulations, which would be reckoned hills in our home counties, seamed by long shining ribbons, which mark the courses of the tributaries of the Terek..

The son born to him before marriage grew up into a youth of shining promise.

For all his shining power and promise he remained poor.

The sky appears as a shining lake; mountains or palms may be similarly reflected, but it is to be noted that the images are inverted (see fig.).

Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words, quagmires and pits, steep hills, dark and horrible glens, soft vales, sunny pastures, a gloomy castle, of which the courtyard was strewn with the skulls and bones of murdered prisoners, a town all bustle and splendour, like London on the Lord Mayor's Day, and the narrow path, straight as a rule could make it, running on up hill and down hill, through city and through wilderness, to the Black River and the Shining Gate.

Ferrous chloride, FeC1 21 is obtained as shining scales by passing chlorine, or, better, hydrochloric acid gas, over red-hot iron, or by reducing ferric chloride in a current of hydrogen.

About seventy analogous objects, including that in the Sword of Orion, were found by him to give light of the same quality; and thus after seventy-three years, verification was brought to William Herschel's hypothesis of a " shining fluid " diffused through space, the possible raw material of stars.

At both places the chief sanctuary bore the name E-barra (or E-babbara) "the shining house" - a direct allusion to the brilliancy of the sun-god.

It is so employed by Homer, who calls it ipvOpos (red), afico/i (glittering), OaEvv6 (shining), terms which apply only to copper.

Or, again, there is nothing not explicable and natural in the conception of the Olympian Zeus as represented by the great chryselephantine statue of Zeus at Olympia, or in the Homeric conception of Zeus as a god who " turns everywhere his shining eyes " and beholds all things.

Starting with the indisputable fact that man's life and happiness are largely dependent upon phenomena in the heavens, that the fertility of the soil is de pendent upon the sun shining in the heavens as well as upon the rains that come from heaven, that on the other hand the mischief and damage done by storms and inundations, to both of which the Euphratean Valley was almost regularly subject, were to be traced likewise to the heavens, the conclusion was drawn that all the great gods had their seats in the heavens.

The fur is of fine quality, consisting of a short soft whitish grey under-fur, brown at the tips, interspersed with longer, stiffer and thicker hairs, shining, greyish at the base, bright rich brown at the points, especially on the upper-parts and outer surface of the legs; the throat, cheeks, under-parts and inner surface of the legs brownish grey throughout.

It consists of very fine scaly kaolin, larger, shining plates of white mica, grains of quartz and particles of semi-decomposed felspar, tourmaline, zircon and other minerals, which originally formed part of the granite.

Lumps of manganese oxide, with a black, shining outer surface, are also characteristic of this deposit, and frequently encrust pieces of pumice or animal remains.

Sometimes it takes the form of egg-like masses of greyish-brown colour, having when of high quality a shining resinous fracture.

Still, Alex was her knight in shining armor.

He was so lithe and sure-footed – her knight in shining armor.

I'll be her knight in shining armor, he said.

They numbered in their hundreds and they made an impressive stage backcloth of white skirts, colored ties and shining bright faces.

However the agencies who were doing their job properly stood out like shining beacons.

I wore a bodysuit and went to Downing Street on a fantastic white horse with two knights in shining armor.

Her baby was born miraculously from her right side, his limbs shining like the sun with dazzling brilliance.

The place to go to share a carafe with your mate when the sun is shining.

The weather improved through the week and by mid-day on Thursday the sun was shining from an almost cloudless sky.

It was 0200 and they awoke to a shining moon in an otherwise cloudless and windless sky.

Poem III My Kingdom Down by a shining water well I found a very little dell, No higher than my head.

A shining example for all of humanity she is super awesome.

Pure, shining moments strung like tiny seed pearls between big red flares of defeat.

He grunted, wiped his shining forehead with the back of his wrist and sat down.

The rest of the litharge was absorbed in the porous cupel, leaving a shining globule of metallic silver about 99.95% pure.

Due to organic growth they are they are looking for the next shining star to fill some very large boots.

Hain is a shining example of youthful idealism being replaced by cynical self interest in later life.

Providenciales, home to Beaches, is the shining jewel in this exotic chain of isles.

They are attracted by the Gothic imagery, the images of Teutonic knights in shining armor, of swords and daggers and shields.

You can also amuse yourself watching the local fishermen shining bright lights on the waters to attract squid.

Skin will be tested by shining ultraviolet light to limited areas and by taking tiny skin samples.

She listened with parted lips and shining eyes to my recital of our adventures.

She does not look glorious, shining or even radiant, she looks luminous.

How good she had looked in her yellow scarf, with her dark hair and her red mac, all bright and shining.

How the glory died through golden hours, And the shining moon arising; How the boat drew homeward filled with flowers.

He was well dressed, but his brilliant necktie, shining pin, and glittering rings were flamboyant in their effect.

Beside these were long rows of wooden pails and dairy utensils, with shining ranks of tinware and pewter platters and pots.

Spider web patterns stuck on the slippery, shining icy pavement.

A sheltered bay supports a plant association dominated by shining pondweed Potamogeton lucens and curled pondweed P. crispus.

By late summer the river is filled with a luxurious growth of arrowhead, yellow waterlily, shining pondweed and starwort.

What are the nakedness and the vesture, the shining raiment, the priestly insignia, the girdles?

To falling raindrops this appears like a second sun shining from below the horizon.

Rejoice, abundant grace shining forth from thy holy relics!

In my mind it is made not of Cotswold stone but of some precious metal, gold perhaps, or shining silver.

It was so clear... December 1879, Cornwall, England Stars littered the midnight sky, shining calmly across the whole of Cornwall.

Wind was nothing to force 1 at best, but the sun was shining as we left the slipway.

Our search for shining stars of the business scene Is your business a shining example to others?

The south gate was guarded by a pair of guards wearing clean white tabards over shining chain mail.

That sounds a bit trite, but there was something shining out.

In reality this was just daylight shining through the dark undergrowth.

The shining whiteness occurs often in the Enoch literature.

Your hair will be shining with health and smelling yummy on the big day.

In appearance it closely resembles the roach, usually attaining a length of 8 or 9 in., with the head and back of a dusky blue colour and the sides of a shining silvery aspect, with numerous dark lines running along the course of the scales.

He argues that the people must have been then to the west of the great rivers, otherwise the dawn could not be addressed as one who "in shining light, before the wind arises, comes gleaming over the waters, making good paths."

The instant I felt its warmth I was reassured, and I sat a long time watching it climb higher and higher in shining waves.

The immense house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows.

Natasha, muffled up in shawls which did not hide her eager face and shining eyes, galloped up to them.

He looked at the row of birches shining in the sunshine, with their motionless green and yellow foliage and white bark.

The sun, just bursting forth from behind a cloud that had concealed it, was shining, with rays still half broken by the clouds, over the roofs of the street opposite, on the dew- besprinkled dust of the road, on the walls of the houses, on the windows, the fence, and on Pierre's horses standing before the hut.

Pierre wished to be there with that smoke, those shining bayonets, that movement, and those sounds.

All their faces were now shining with that latent warmth of feeling Pierre had noticed the day before and had fully understood after his talk with Prince Andrew.

Like all the others near the speaker, Prince Andrew looked at him with shining eyes and experienced a sense of comfort.

When Rostov entered the room, the princess dropped her eyes for an instant, as if to give the visitor time to greet her aunt, and then just as Nicholas turned to her she raised her head and met his look with shining eyes.

The curly- headed, delicate boy sat with shining eyes unnoticed in a corner, starting every now and then and muttering something to himself, and evidently experiencing a new and powerful emotion as he turned his curly head, with his thin neck exposed by his turn-down collar, toward the place where Pierre sat.

When they all got up to go in to supper, little Nicholas Bolkonski went up to Pierre, pale and with shining, radiant eyes.

Rejoice, abundant grace shining forth from thy holy relics !

And they dressed in shining white armor - and they had light sabers.

Current status The main habitat of the pale shining brown is scrubby grassland on light calcareous soils.

A portrait of the Victorian age, indeed any age, must show the dirty linen under the shining armor.

Which is why WDM, with campaigning colleagues across Europe, is shining the spotlight on the business lobbyists.

By shining the flashlight on his bedroom floor Jamie opened up a link with a very strange new world.

As we move into a new millenium, Mars is a shining beacon of all we can become; all we can achieve.

The ring looked like aluminum shining in the sunlight.

The knight in shining armor may come from a time period well before Henry VIII, but it fits right in with the medieval time period and the popular sport of jousting.

When regarded from above, Asscher cut diamonds resemble pyramids or octagonal snowflakes, depending on how the light is shining on them.

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Turn the plate over and enjoy your crafty shining sun.

He grabbed the hen by the wing and headed for a sliver of light shining through the coop door.

After he saved her life, Alex was her knight in shining armor.

Worterbuch, who derives the element bel from an old Celtic root meaning shining, &c.) (W.

The stems are solid and marked with numerous shining, polished, yellow, purple or striped joints, 3 in.

Slowly he took the shining star from his own brow and placed it upon that of the Princess.

At first I was very sorry when I found that the sun had hidden his shining face behind dull clouds, but afterwards I thought why he did it, and then I was happy.

Then looking more closely at the trees around, they saw that the treasure was all melting away, and that much of it was already spread over the leaves of the oak trees and maples, which were shining with their gorgeous dress of gold and bronze, crimson and emerald.

The countess looked round several times at her daughter's softened face and shining eyes and prayed God to help her.

Cromwell himself, however, seems to have regarded the question of title as of secondary importance, as merely (to use his own words) "a feather in the hat," "a shining bauble for crowds to gaze at or kneel to."

It is a huge ornate building with minarets and a lofty cupola faced with shining blue tiles.

The lapis specularis of Pliny, scattered over the Circus Maximus to produce a shining whiteness, was probably mica.

The sun is shining brightly to-day and I hope we shall go to ride if the roads are dry.

Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason's face with shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with his whole soul what the stranger said.

Felipa returned a few minutes later, eyes shining and a contented smile on her face.

The sun shining, he fixed a round glass speculum (orbem e vitro) in a window-shutter, and then closing it the images of outside objects would be seen transmitted through the aperture on to the opposite wall, or better, a white paper screen suitably placed.

The date palm is a beautiful tree, growing to a height of from 60 to 80 ft., and its stem, which is strongly marked with old leaf-scars, terminates in a crown of graceful shining pinnate leaves.

As seen in commerce jujube fruits are about the size of a small filbert, having a reddish-brown, shining, somewhat wrinkled exterior, and a yellow or gingerbread coloured pulp enclosing a hard elongated stone.