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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Gleam
 
  Gleams like a naked sword.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Gleamed like fireflies.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Gleamed like gold from the evening rays.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Gleam like sunny heavens.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Gleaming like the chamomile.
            —Arabian Nights		  5
  Gleamed as the lightning glitters against the murky night.
            —Edwin Arnold		  6
  Gleamed like a praying-carpet at the foot of those divinest altars.
            —Edwin Arnold		  7
  Gleam like glass.
            —Philip James Bailey		  8
  Gleaming like the white moonlight.
            —Philip James Bailey		  9
  Gleaming like a flash of lightning.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  10
  Gleamed upon the water like a bride at her looking-glass.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  11
  Gleamed like star-motes in the milky-way.
            —Mathilde Blind		  12
  Gleameth like a seraph sword.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  13
            Glare
Like gates of hell.
            —Robert Browning		  14
  Gleamed like Saint Sophia’s dome when all the faithful troop to morning prayer.
            —Robert Browning		  15
  Gleam … like the phosphor of the foam upon the shore.
            —Robert Buchanan		  16
  Gleams, like a seraph from the sky descending.
            —Lord Byron		  17
  Gleams like flint.
            —Madison Cawein		  18
                Gleam
Like the bright rainbow on an evening stream.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  19
                Golden gleams,
Like the bright miracles we see in dreams.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  20
  Gleaming like shot silk in the sunshine.
            —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle		  21
  Gleamed like the flocks of cloudlets bright in sunny air at morn.
            —Frederick William Faber		  22
  Gleamed … like sapphires in the mid-day hours.
            —Paul Ferroll		  23
  Gleamed as funeral lamps in a sepulchral chamber.
            —Gustave Flaubert		  24
  The sand … gleamed like mica dust.
            —Théphile Gautier		  25
  Gleamed … like a star beam, one star beam of some high predominant star.
            —Arthur Henry Hallam		  26
  Gleamed and shone, like a splinter of daylight downward thrown.
            —William Wallace Harney		  27
  Gleams, like to the angel’s sword.
            —Charles Harpur		  28
  Gleams like an angel-market.
            —William Ernest Henley		  29
  Gleams like a diamond on a dancing girl.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  30
  Gleam like gold.
            —Philander Chase Johnson		  31
  Gleaming like rose-hued pearls below the wave.
            —Frances Anne Kemble		  32
  Gleam like pale wells of precious malachite.
            —Frances Anne Kemble		  33
  Gleams like a dream in his face.
            —Henry. C. Kendall		  34
  Gleam like the golden flash of a moon-lit stream.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  35
  Gleams like the taper in the blaze of day.
            —Robert Lloyd		  36
  Like a river, frozen and star-lit, gleamed his coat of mail.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  37
  Gleamed like a grate of brass.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  38
  Gleamed on the hillside like a patch of snow.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  39
  Gleam, like midnight’s boreal dances.
            —James Russell Lowell		  40
  Gleamed like moonshine on wet sands.
            —George MacDonald		  41
  Gleam, like drifted gold in summer’s cloudless beam.
            —James Montgomery		  42
  Gleam’d, like the meteors of a northern sky.
            —James Montgomery		  43
Gleam like the pearls that sprinkle
A virgin’s golden hair.
            —Nanakkash		  44
  Gleamed like the young moon’s crescent.
            —Pilpay		  45
  Gleam, like a glow-worm in the night.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  46
  Gleams like a rising harvest moon.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  47
  Gleams like the galleon rare of an Argonaut’s dreams.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  48
  Gleams like a beacon from afar.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  49
                Gleam
Like islands on a dark blue sea.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  50
  Gleam like the white effigies on tombs in dim cathedrals.
            —Alexander Smith		  51
  Lurid gleam, like the reflection of a sulphur fire.
            —Robert Southey		  52
  Gleams as a ghost’s glory in dreams.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  53
  Gleam broad as the brows of the billows that brighten the storm with their crests.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  54
Gleam like a cloud the westering sun stains red
Till all the blood of day’s blithe heart be bled
And all night’s heart requickened.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  55
  Gleams like spring’s green bloom on boughs all gaunt and gnarry.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  56
                Gleam
Like the green heights of sunset heaven.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  57
  Gleam like a brooklet, whose bed is all unshaded.
            —Carmen Sylva		  58
  Gleam like sea-mists o’er the plain.
            —Bayard Taylor		  59
  Gleamed like fancy made of golden air.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  60
  Gleam like the rosy east.
            —William Thomson		  61
  Gleamed like a satin ribbon in the sun, or like the pearly inside of a shell.
            —Henry D. Thoreau		  62
  Gleaming like a sea.
            —Virgil		  63
  Gleams like an angry lion’s eye.
            —Oscar Wilde		  64
 
 
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