The scooped valleys of Monte Rosa itself were magnificent, all gleaming in the bright sunlight — tossed and torn at intervals, and sending from their rents and walls the magical blue of the ice.

The gleaming white The Bismarck-Denkmal ( German for Bismarck monument ) is a monument in the city of Hamburg.

Her memorial service sees a vast turnout, and a tall gleaming pillar with a light burning atop it is constructed in tribute to her.

This is illustrated in the encounter of the blessed woman and her husband: she is surrounded by gleaming attendants while he shrinks down to invisibility as he uses a collared tragedian to speak for him.

In the Odyssey, 19. 233, when Odysseus, while pretending to be someone else, is questioned by Penelope about her husband's clothing, he says that he wore a shirt " gleaming like the skin of a dried onion " ( varies with translations, literal translation here ) which could refer to the lustrous quality of silk fabric.

The building is clad in glazed terra-cotta, which provides its gleaming white façade.

In stanza 12, the horse Skinfaxi, his mane gleaming, is stated by Vafþrúðnir as " drawing day to mankind ".

Cata is described as a large monster with a horse's mane, gleaming eyes, thick feet, nails of iron and a whale's tail.

The underside of the staircases is covered with tiles that form gleaming canopies on either side of the vestibule.

At the site, in a small park at the roadside, is a gleaming silver statue of Tereshkova soaring upward, with arms outstretched, at the top of a curved column.

Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”

Coat: Hair is short, abundant, gleaming and slightly thick, lying well all over the body.

Coat: Hair is short, abundant, gleaming and quite thick, lying well all over the body.

The name Argenteuil is recorded for the first time in a royal charter of 697 as Argentoialum, from a Latin / Gaulish root argento meaning " silver ", " silvery ", " shiny ", perhaps in reference to the gleaming surface of the river Seine, on the banks of which Argenteuil is located, and from a Celtic suffix-ialo meaning " clearing, glade " or " place of ".

In that instant, as I stared at the gleaming fish sign and heard her words, I suddenly experienced what I later learned is called anamnesis — a Greek word meaning, literally, " loss of forgetfulness.

Jupiter is described as the " Father " (" Padre "-archaic Portuguese for father ) that " vibrates the fierce rays of Vulcan " (" vibra os feros raios de Vulcano "), presides from a " crystalline seat of stars " (" assento de estrelas cristalino "), carrying " a gleaming crown and sceptre / of another rock clearer than diamond " (" hua coroa e ceptro rutilante / de outra pedra mais clara que diamante ".

The gleaming white building on Palomar Mountain that houses the 200 – inch Hale Telescope is considered by many to be " The Cathedral of Astronomy ".

The two sections can be easily distinguished: the older section has many colorful decorations and numerous small pillars, and fans have been installed in the ceiling ; the new section is in gleaming white marble and is completely air-conditioned.

The park is filled with brilliantly colored sandstone cliffs, gleaming white domes, and contrasting layers of stone and earth.

Lord of the Rings is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist.

It's so romantic up there, she used to say, with the broad river gleaming in its moontrack like an enormous dark mirror and all the sounds of the night, so poetic.

Glass can also be cut with a diamond saw, or copper wheels embedded with abrasives, and polished to give gleaming facets ; the technique used in creating Waterford crystal.

Her head was covered with a gleaming helmet which was itself crowned with an olive-wreath ; she bore a shield and brandished a spear, simulating the goddess ' fighting role.

One design submitted by Wagner himself comprised an array of gleaming new buildings arranged around a vast multi-level system of fly-overs and underpasses, with a huge glass-roofed circular car-park in the middle.

Lotte Eisner praised its " opalescent surfaces streaming with reflections, rain, or light: car windows, the glazed leaves of the revolving door reflecting the silhouette of the doorman dressed in a gleaming black waterproof, the dark moss of houses with lighted windows, wet pavements and shimmering puddles ... His camera captures the filtered half-light falling from the street lamps ... it seizes railings through basement windows.

Rail passenger revenues declined dramatically between 1920 and 1934 because of the rise of the automobile, but in the mid-1930s, railroads reignited popular imagination with service improvements and new, diesel-powered streamliners, such as the gleaming silver Pioneer Zephyr and Flying Yankee.

The gleaming marble surfaces were smooth, curved, fluted, or ornately sculpted to reflect the sun, cast graded shadows and change in colour with the ever-changing light of day.

Korean displays include green-glazed ceramics, silk embroideries from officials ' robes and gleaming boxes inlaid with mother-of-pearl made between 500 AD and 2000.

The red booths and gleaming chrome in mom-and-pop diners, the stone cottages of tourist courts and the many service stations along this route saw America fall in love with the automobile.

In the 1670s, after the Great Fire of 1666, London sported a new, gleaming, city centre with forty churches.

But no sooner had the first light of day appeared, than the glittering coats of mail, girt with bands of steel, and the gleaming cuirasses, seen from afar, showed that the king's forces were at hand.

On the following day, April 1, students trudged up the mountain side with their five-gallon cans of whitewash and splashed it on the stones, turning them into a gleaming white " A ".

Sitting up, the hermit is able to see the gleaming eyes of the Tailypo leering at him from the foot of his bed.

On any clear day one's eye could wander along that amphitheatre of beloved slopes, over Niall Glundubh's cairn on Tibradden, past haunted Kilmashogue, down into the sylvan hollows of Glendhu, up again along a red-brown fringe of leafless trees to the sinister ruins of Kilikee brroding over Dublin's south-western suburbs-" the Hellfire Club ," monumental to the arrogance and violence of the eighteenth-century Irish gentry-until finally one's gaze rested upon Seefin, a pearl-grey phantasm of a mountain, its summit gleaming maybe with the snowdrifts of last week's blizzard.

Enthusiastic shoppers and travellers can also discover a selection of tiny shops ( on the side streets and alleyways leading up to the souq ) full of Omani silver, stalls of gleaming white dishdashas and embroided kumahs, brightly colored cloth and multicoloured head scarves.

When asked by the skaters what a Monster Cookie Pinwheel is, Skater McGee replies with, " A monster cookie pinwheel is when you skate up to a locomotives cow catch, you 360 punk buster to the second car, do a lemonade hand stand on the third car, a whipping-post ollie to the fourth car, a demon stomper on the fifth car, and a gleaming the cube off the sixth car, before dismounting the train.

It is described as a gleaming rainbow gray colored coating that appeared to be made up of millions of minuscule dots, each of which also appears to be made up of millions of tiny dots, and so on.

We were off the road, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut.

In the ditch sand was white and soft-looking, only an occasional pebble discernible, faintly gleaming.

And projecting wickedly through these curtains were the gleaming muzzles of six rifles, all trained on Billy Tilghman.

He showed his gleaming tusks of teeth and bellowed incoherently, his brass earrings jangling discordantly as he shook and trembled in ecstasy.

Brâncuși represented or caricatured her life as a large gleaming bronze phallus.

The gleaming bronze helmet frightens Astyanax and makes him cry.

An outstanding example of Alma-Tadema's contrasting gleaming white marble against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean sea.

" Pfingsten, das liebliche Fest ", speaks of Pentecost as a time of greening and blooming in fields, woods, hills, mountains, bushes and hedges, of birds singing new songs, meadows sprouting fragrant flowers, and of festive sunshine gleaming from the skies and coloring the earth-iconic lines idealizing the Pentecost holidays in the German speaking lands.

); the shades of the departed, as seen by Heracles on the banks of the Cocytus, resemble countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida " ( V. 65 if ).

" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

But then he realized that the dully gleaming orb which floated before his dreaming vision was not the Sun.