I love the way that they are black but often, at certain angles, look sandy brown or, stranger still, a kind of sheeny silver. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk] Reference
One of the five bushes has a very deep red bloom, the deepest red I've seen, almost becoming a kind of sheeny, velvety black down each petal. From Wordnik.com. [What I cooked last night.] Reference
Or words to that effect, but he definitely used 'sheeny', as I reacted at the time. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
He was not sure that he could manage the "sheeny," and he did not mean to take any chances with his district; let the. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle] Reference
From the doorway, Manuela, in the sheeny April morn. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
Hast thou darkened that countenance all-sheeny as the noon?. From Wordnik.com. [Tehran Winter] Reference
Hast thou darkened that countenance all sheeny as the noon?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Each fringed with sheeny splendour, are the days of infancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
She was silent, and her eye fell and rested on the sheeny damask beneath. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
Vel, I ses, if that aint a sheeny nachez, vel, I vil get misha mishinnah. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The old woman in question turned a pair of sheeny eyes towards the speaker. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
That shape over there must be a fool's cap, one mass of sheeny tints inside. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Dolphin] Reference
Her tank top is sheeny and her shoulders are freckled and her hair is baled up in golden elastics. From Wordnik.com. [Memory Wall] Reference
Suddenly a shimmer of gold with the sunlight through it caught her gaze, and a glimpse of sheeny purple. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Having her so close gave me an opportunity of examining that light sheeny garment she wore always in the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Green Mansions] Reference
On little fir-patches mounted numerous blackcock of sheeny feather, and the owls began to hoot in the wood beyond. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
It was a lovely night in the end of April; the moon was full, and glimmering with sheeny whiteness over the distant hills. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence] Reference
Here are yet the stalwart trees, the tall companions, that nodded on our shy confessions; the ivy hangs in sheeny spray upon the wall. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Do you remember, at Niagara, a little cataract on the American side, which throws its silver sheeny veil over a cave called the Grot of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
There was not a breath of air; it was one of those crisp, still autumn days, when the sheeny sea looks as cold and hard as polished steel. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre And Jean] Reference
His was a compact, plump figure, amply robed in sheeny linen, and he balanced himself skilfully in his light shell of a chariot, which bumped over the uneven pavement. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
I ses, if that aint a sheeny nachez, vel, I vil get misha mishinnah. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Silent and abstracted, I looked into the brooding disk of sheeny sky, my eyes dream-troubled. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
His coat glistened like sheeny black satin, and he had a white face and white feet and a long mane. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Plainsmen] Reference
There was another fellow there, representing Burnstein, a regular hook-nosed sheeny, but he wasn't in it. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie: a Novel] Reference
For the blast kept shifting the cloud-masses, and the sun streamed through in spears and bands of sheeny rays. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
At length there was a rustling on the stairway, and she re-entered the room, all sheeny white in lustrous satin. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Heidenhoff's Process] Reference
And their recent nail polish collaboration with Needsupply in a sheeny, beetle-green hue is still adorning our fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Refinery] Reference
Gauze-winged dragon-flies darted hither and thither while butterflies of every hue sailed by on wings of sheeny bronze. From Wordnik.com. [In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls] Reference
The moonlight falling in sheeny silver through the window, seemed to her to take the shape of a tall, white woman's figure. From Wordnik.com. [A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg] Reference
He had the long sleeves reaching nearly to the ground peculiar to his race, and the unmistakable sheeny nose and cruel lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference
For Fall he focused on asymmetry and mixed media, showing powdery silks, textural shearling, angora, sheeny neoprene, and flannel. From Wordnik.com. [StyleList] Reference
At the last epithet I bestowed on her, she grew very pale; but her eyes resembled the jewels on her breast in their sheeny glitter. From Wordnik.com. [A Romance of Two Worlds] Reference
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