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Word: gleam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then the old man broke down and cried like a child. I strained my eyes a moment to catch a gleam of white upon the waves. Too late, too late! I stooped down to pick something from the slippery floor of the pier, just as it had fluttered down and fallen a moment since. A piece of blue ribbon that she had worn in her hair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

Like a hadji's bright gleam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOOR'S SERENADE. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

...thousand years of fable gleam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MYTHOLOGY. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...been worn closely, like an undershirt, for several days. For a few moments the President surveyed the undergraduate with an expression of mingled commiseration and disgust, and finally he exclaimed, "Been on a drunk !" The half-conscious student rallied his straying senses, and with a gleam of good-fellowship in his eye, somewhat unexpectedly ejaculated, "So-hic-have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RETORT COURTEOUS. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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