1 It was certainly a doubtful charm, imparting a hard, metallic lustre to the child's character.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVI. A FOREST WALK 2 But I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow.
3 Blameless as I was, and knew that I was, in reference to any wrong she could possibly suspect me of, I shrunk before her strange eyes, quite unable to endure their hungry lustre.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN 4 But her earnest cordiality, and her quiet beauty, shone with the gentler lustre for it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION 5 Twenty Eight, I understood, was also a bright particular star; but it was his misfortune to have his glory a little dimmed by the extraordinary lustre of Twenty Seven.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS 6 But the master was not dead; only dreaming; drowsily, seeing as in a glass, its lustre spotted, himself, a young man helmeted; and a cascade falling.
7 They had perhaps some of the weird, inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass.
8 Shadowy eye-sockets, deep as those of a death's head, suddenly turned into pits of lustre: a lantern-jaw was cavernous, then it was shining; wrinkles were emphasized to ravines, or obliterated entirely by a changed ray.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 9 Like the planet Mercury surrounded by the lustre of sunset, her permanent brilliancy passed without much notice in the temporary glory of the situation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 10 The verses told only of the night and the balmy breeze and the maiden lustre of the moon.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 11 Their diving-stone, poised on its rude supports and rocking under their plunges, and the rough-hewn stones of the sloping breakwater over which they scrambled in their horseplay gleamed with cold wet lustre.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 12 When he had flicked lustre into his shoes he stood up and pulled his waistcoat down more tightly on his plump body.
13 Inside was a green paste, waxy in lustre, the odour curiously heavy and persistent.
14 She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression of love.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 15 Busoni turned around, and, perceiving the excitement depicted on the magistrate's face, the savage lustre of his eyes, he understood that the revelation had been made at the assizes; but beyond this he was ignorant.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 111. Expiation.