| 1. | The luster of inquiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 2. | His big, coarse shoes shone with a metallic luster suggestive of stove polish. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 3. | A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid luster into burnished silver, hung over the Haunted Wood the air was full of sweet summer sounds--sleepy birds twittering, freakish breezes, faraway voices and laughter. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 4. | At the same time the fever, which for an instant abandoned her, returned to give luster to her eyes, color to her cheeks, and vermillion to her lips. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | Inside the church both lusters were already lighted, and all the candles before the holy pictures. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |