Shine

The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.

‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.

“[…] I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he shined still more.”

It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.

I can take the heat, baby, best believe That's the moment I shine

So proud she shyned in her Princely state.

Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.

Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.

I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.

As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.

in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them

He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.

the distant shine of the celestial city

Take a shine. You need it.

be fair or foul, or rain or shine

She's certainly taken a shine to you.

He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.