gleam

• But through this distorting medium we see the soul of John himself, like a gleam-lit landscape through the whirl of a storm; a strange weird sinister thing, glimmering in a dubious light between the blasphemer we half see in him with the singer's eyes and the saint we half descry with our own. —  Robert Browning
• However, occasionally a gleam of the old sunshine illumines, so to speak, the chambers I occupy, and such a gleam was my retention for the Defence in the cause of Quicksilver v. Nore_. It was a Patent Case, and one of the deepest possible interest. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891
• Not a gleam was there! —  The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2
• Panting heavily, Ali started up, but the gleam was about him still, for the bright rays of the morning sun were shining down through the attap roof, and with a moan of misery he sank back once more on finding that he had been overcome by weariness, and that this last painful episode was only a dream. —  Middy and Ensign
• a gleam of the old sunshine illumines, so to speak, the chambers I occupy, and such a gleam was my retention for the Defence in the cause of _Quicksilver_ v. _Nore_. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891

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