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Definition of Gleamings
1. gleaming [n] - See also: gleaming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleamings
Literary usage of Gleamings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper (1841)
"We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that
represent us otherwise can be true ; though happily for human nature, gleamings ..."
2. Works of J. Fenimore Cooper by James Fenimore Cooper (1893)
"We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that
represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of ..."
3. William Ellery Channing: A Centennial Memory by Charles Timothy Brooks (1880)
"... in his way of telling an anecdote, he would show gleamings of a latent humor,
as when he described how, in the midst of the appalling denunciations of a ..."
4. Human Efficiency: A Psychological Study of Modern Problems by Horatio Willis Dresser (1912)
"Now, the inner light may well be in some measure an endowment, such that everything
depends upon the initial gleamings contrasted with the outer darkness of ..."
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