Example Sentences

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The sceptered isle has become a gleamless cinder on the tides of history.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he approached the bedside Susan opened her eyes—great shadows, gleamless soot-smudges in her pitifully haggard face.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson

"Yes," said Susan, all quiet shadow now, gleamless; "I'll help you."

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson

It was only the Vicomte who paused at intervals during his frugal meal, and looked across the table towards the young girl with those deep, impenetrable eyes—shadowless, gleamless, like velvet.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton

She was looking badly, too, all gleamless shadow, and fighting off a physical and mental languor by a stubborn effort which she might have concealed from another, but not from me.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson