lustre

• "And the prints," resumed Scott, "give one no impression of him--the lustre is there, Doctor, but it is not lighted up. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• The snowfall had ceased, the sky was once more cloudless, and the deep sapphire blue was studded with countless myriads of scintillating stars that gleamed with the cold sharp lustre which is seen only in periods of very severe frost. —  The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure
• In that lustre--and it is characteristic of them--they differ wholly from the dead, aloe-like texture of the pineapple leaf; and remind me, as I look at them closely, a little of some conditions of chaff, as on heads of wheat after being threshed. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• Her hair was of a golden brown and silken lustre, and when unbound trailed upon the ground. —  The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
• All by herself, as she walked along between the braes, was she singing a hymn And must this body die This mortal frame decay And must these feeble limbs of mine Lie mouldering in the clay Not that the child had any thought of death, for she was as full of life as the star above her was of lustre--tamed though they both were by the holy hour. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

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