chatoyant

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Shot, shot, adj. having a changeable colour, chatoyant, as silk, alpaca, &c.

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Now, as the hum of conversation mingled with the sound of Muriel’s low, soft laugh, reached her from the parlor, her chatoyant eyes kindled, and she hastily went in to join the merry circle.

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The faint eery light that glowed in the stranger’s deep-set eyes was not the lambent flame seen in the chatoyant orbs of some night-prowling jungle beast.

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The chatoyant eyes of the leopard stared back, a flicker of restlessness in their brilliant yellow deeps.

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She was leaning on her elbows, her chin propped in her palms, and the light in her grey chatoyant eyes was wholly innocent and mischievous.

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