agleam

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Forth stepped Beltane, fierce and threatening, his long sword agleam, and so paused to scowl, for the knight raised his head of a sudden and lo!

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  • Quisanté made his preparations for going with his eyes all agleam, murmuring again and again, "She sends me; she shall see what I'm worth." —  Quisanté
  • Brent shuddered but Halloway struck a match just then for his dead pipe under the protection of his coat lapel and in the brief flare Brent saw that his eyes were agleam, feral and animal-like, and that his lips were wolfishly drawn back from his teeth This is elemental!" —  A Pagan of the Hills
  • Its head lay on his arm, its pin-point eyes maliciously agleam, and the child gripped it by the middle. —  The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories
  • The dog, on his spread forefeet, touched his chest to the ground and with ears erect, eyes agleam, and inciting soprano gurgles invited the world to a mad, mad, game Cassidy only said, "Aw, g'wan! —  Bunker Bean
  • Forth stepped Beltane, fierce and threatening, his long sword agleam, and so paused to scowl, for the knight raised his head of a sudden and lo! —  Beltane the Smith
 

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/əˈglim/
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