Glistening
['gli:sniŋ]
Definition
(adj.) reflecting light; 'glistening bodies of swimmers'; 'the horse's glossy coat'; 'lustrous auburn hair'; 'saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet'; 'shining white enamel' .
Typist: Marietta--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glisten
Typist: Shelby
Examples
- His hat presents at the rims a peculiar appearance of a glistening nature, as if it had been a favourite snail-promenade. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was such an unutterable enemy, yet glistening with uncanny white fire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was erect and complete, there was a strange stealth glistening through his amiable, almost happy appearance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gerald moved in his slow, observant, glistening-attentive motion down between the tables and the people whose shadowy faces looked up as he passed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- God bless you, Old Dobbin, George said, grasping him by the hand, with something very like moisture glistening in his eyes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Foolish fellow,' said Mr. Pickwick, with glistening eyes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This was the glistening, forbidden apple, this face of a man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Marian has been mother and sister both to me, said the good, affectionate girl, her pretty blue eyes glistening while she spoke. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The sideboard was covered with glistening old plate--old cups, both gold and silver; old salvers and cruet-stands, like Rundell and Bridge's shop. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- From the tail of my eye I saw a score of guards rushing across the glistening sand toward me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His glistening, whitish hair seemed like the electricity of the sky. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He saw the perfect good-humoured callousness, even strange, glistening malice, in Gerald, glistening through the plausible ethics of productivity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The terror of his face lay in his eyes, however, steel gray, and glistening coldly with a malignant, inexorable cruelty in their depths. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Gerald Crich sat erect, with a glistening look of amusement on his face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You two were so close about him that I thought you would like me to be the same, returns that old bird with a secretly glistening eye. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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