Word: lustrous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young celebrity named, with the fanciness peculiar to kennels and stables, "Bellhaven Behoover." A "staff correspondent" of the arch-Republican New York Herald Trib une described Bellhaven Behoover as an "eager-eyed scion of champion collie stock ... a seven-month-old sable and white collie, the sable a lustrous golden brown and the white like the fluffed ala baster of a snowdrift at dawn."* Son of Triple Champion Bellhaven Braveheart and Multiple Champion Bellhaven Blossom time, grandson of Bellhaven Starboat Strongheart ("greatest collie of all time"), young Bellhaven Behoover was valued at $1,000. But Mrs. Ilch said that...
...picture to himself the entity of Slavic evolution. Centuries before the bright miracle of Bethlehem the Slavs were a nation of lithe, swarthy wanderers who cultivated the land northeast of the Carpathians. Fearfully they turned to dark hills for sullen, reverberating commandments of Perun the Thunderer. Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God. Then their sweating oxen strained over furrows; hives were loud with bees; joyous honeyed mead was brewed in the glades. With the arching zest of dolphins the Slavs plunged in the waters of the Vistula, Pripet, Upper Dniester rivers. At nightfall they huddled...
...main classes: true pearls and freshwater pearls. True pearls, or "orientals," are formed in oysters by the deposition of concentric layers of nacre, an iridescent substance, around a microbe or some other irritant. Freshwater pearls are formed in molluscs out of non-nacreous material, and are far less lustrous and valuable...
...dusky, lustrous eyes of Roman citizens grew large and moist with awe, last week, when a Papal medal as big as a smallish soup plate was borne pompously across the "Eternal City...
...That it is the work of Titian all the critics who have seen it, with remarkable and unusual accord, agree. The noble design is his invention, and no one but he could have carried out in this rich and lustrous color such subtleties of detail, combined with breadth and solidity of form. Examine it closely and note these subtleties- the unevenness of the skin; the differences in the texture of the flesh, how here it sags and there it is drawn taut over the bones; the folds about the eyes; the slightly swollen lids, somewhat bloodshot; the inhaling nostrils...