1 She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.
2 She revolted from the complacent ugliness of Mrs. Peniston's black walnut, from the slippery gloss of the vestibule tiles, and the mingled odour of sapolio and furniture-polish that met her at the door.
3 Her habit of resolutely facing the facts, in her rare moments of introspection, did not now allow her to put any false gloss on the situation.
4 I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich material.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 5 He returns immaculate in the evening with the gloss still on his hat and his boots.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 3. The Problem 6 The seed of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 7 Well, let us see what is to be derived from this gloss.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS 8 "Very good, father-in-law," said Cavalcanti, yielding to his low-born nature, which would escape sometimes through the aristocratic gloss with which he sought to conceal it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker. 9 But Levin, as he talked to his brother, was continually looking round at Vronsky, trying to think of something to say to him to gloss over his rudeness.
10 I have not glossed over matters for policy's sake, for I fear we have already gone too far in that sort of thing.
11 Her way of glossing over the transaction with Trenor he regarded at once as a tribute to his own acuteness, and a confirmation of his suspicions.