gleams

• The silver gleams, the white linen tablecloth is resplendent, and across from you is Adolf Hitler-the embodiment of Satan himself. —  Slice of Laodicea
• Across the murky clouds of madness shoots and gleams, at times, the deepest insight into the heart of things. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
• They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• When there was no sun elsewhere, some few gleams--so its grateful visitors said--always seemed to have stayed behind, to cheer the weary soldiers that gathered in the British Hotel. —  Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
• Then she heard an explosion, and perceived a film of smoke full of horizontal gleams--the blades of flying spears She had a fleeting impression of Hamoud, his arm outstretched, his hand spitting fire. —  Sacrifice

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