So he selected a fine, big pumpkin -- one with a lustrous , orange-red color -- and began carving it. As to the eyes themselves, the soft, lustrous brightness of them defied analysis No two people could agree about their color; divided opinion declaring alternately that they were dark gray or black. Nor smile so, while I write that this little black was brilliant, for even blackness has its brilliancy; behold yon lustrous ebony, panelled in king's cabinets. Even the wine at her side that kept her alive had been decanted into a bottle of lustrous Venetian glass. She dropped her dark eyelids over those eyes that ought to have been lustrous but were not, as if somebody had breathed on them the first thing in the morning.