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  • adjective Shining brightly.

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Examples

  • Other seats, cushioned to match, dawned on me by degrees; and at last I took in the complete fact of a pleasant parlour, with a wood fire on a clear-shining hearth, a carpet where arabesques of bright blue relieved a ground of shaded fawn; pale walls over which a slight but endless garland of azure forget-me-nots ran mazed and bewildered amongst myriad gold leaves and tendrils.

    Villette 2003

  • Till light, clear-shining through its heart of dew,

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • Already people were streaming in under the wooden arched gates for the evening display; already she could see a star in the clear-shining green east.

    Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • One was that he loved her -- not with the boy-and-girl love of long ago, but with the love of a man for the one woman in the world; and the other was that she was as far beyond his reach as one of those sunset stars of which she had always reminded him in her pure, clear-shining loveliness.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 1908

  • View of the clear-shining English scenery is often interrupted between London and Crewe by long and short tunnels.

    The Scotch Express 1899

  • Long avenues unfold clear-shining lines of gold across the green;

    The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • But it was inevitable that her consciousness of it, and consequently its clear-shining, should have suffered diminution at times.

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • He had a full unwrinkled face and such clear-shining eyes that his grey beard looked quite false on him, stuck on for a disguise.

    Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890

  • He had a full unwrinkled face and such clear-shining eyes that his grey beard looked quite false on him, stuck on for a disguise.

    Chance Joseph Conrad 1890

  • This, our valour, and the famous kindred virtues through which we are strong and irresistible, so that the world has today nothing anywhere of equal glory and power, spring from the chastity of our women, which is conspicuous and clear-shining, and in the modesty and shamefastness of our young heroes, and the extreme rarity of lawless relations between men and women in Ulla, the servile tribes excepted, of whom no man maketh any account.

    The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887

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