Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes.
The eyes alone appeared to create any obstacle, for from either side of his forehead their light-blue, glassy balls projected.
There had been excursions in the equipage of Richard, when with his four horses he had outstripped the winds, as it flew over the glassy ice which invariably succeeded a thaw.
They were spherical glassy inventions, many times the height of a man, connected by strings of thick metal bars and rows of smaller globes, none of which was familiar.
They found whole forests of this glassy frigid vegetation, but not much evidence of any animal life larger than the creature the two explorers had seen.
They looked a little like thin, glassy trees with big, blue coconuts on top.
Leveling his rifle, he fired at a glassy globe perched upon the central sphere.
And the stillness of even was not broken, it cried not out nor wept, nor faintly echoed the fine and glassy air--so still was the sound of his departing steps.
I write it down--that form is HERS; the face is very pale, and the eyes are glassy bright; but I know them well.
No forest fell When thou wouldst build; no quarry sent its stores To enrich thy walls; but thou didst hew the floods, And make thy marble of the glassy wave.
The floors under the furnace were all made of fire-brick, and yet the brick had run together until they were one solid mass of glassy stone.
Mr. Fitzgerald, the chemist of the Acheson Company, pointed out to me a curious glassy cavity in one of the half-dismantled furnaces.
My gaze had been met with an upturned glassy stare from a pair of wide-opened, deep-set eyes!
There were subtleties of horror in his glassy eyes, in his drawn and haggard features.
A silicate of alumina, iron, and magnesia, having a bright blue color and a vitreous or glassy luster.
It is rooted in the mud by a bundle of long, glassy spicules, which are slightly twisted.
One of these has a glassy appearance like the grains in the sandstone, and is so hard that we cannot scratch it with a knife.
It is a dense basic lava of a dark color, that breaks with a conchoidal or shell-like fracture, and shows a finely grained or hemi-crystalline texture in a glassy base.
The water looked glassy calm, and there did not seem to be much wind, which made the sound even stranger and more startling.
The land breeze had now completely died away, and there was not a ripple on the water, though the slow moving glassy undulations which came rolling in and constantly rocking the boat, showed that they were not floating on an inland lake.
See that white line of foam curling away over the glassy surface of the water out there.
They are met with in imperfectly crystallized substances and in glassy rocks (obsidian and pitchstone), or may be obtained artificially from a solution of sulphur in carbon disulphide rendered viscous by the addition of Canada-balsam.
The form on which the boy sat was worn to a glassy smoothness, save only in certain places, where some ingenious idler or another had amused himself by carving sundry names, epithets, and epigrammatic niceties of language.
And as he spoke, quick as thought, he leaped up on to the gunwale, and, without hesitation, dived into the great glassy rollers.
The cock alighted on a branch overhead, some seven or eight feet from the ground, whipped around, stretched his neck downwards, and eyed his assailant with a glassy stare.
In the first, mysterious, glassy grey of dawn, when thin wisps of vapour clung curling among the grass-tops, the two wanderers got up and fell to grazing.
The Calling of the Lop-horned Bull I The harvest moon hung globed and honey-coloured over the glassy wilderness lake.
Often at sundown, too, while we sat idly in our boat, watching the trout break the glassy surface here and there, the same soothing melody would be poured out all around us, and kept up till darkness filled the woods.
They would leap in pairs from the glassy surface of one swell of the steamer across the polished chasm into the next swell, frisking their tails and doing their best not to be beaten.
Its widely-opened glassy eyes seemed to stare at the king, who shuddered, and would have turned away had not some invisible power compelled him to continue gazing at this death-like countenance.
Slowly life dawned again, a ray of consciousness returned to the glassy eyes, and the trembling lips murmured a low wail, which filled the poet's soul with sadness, and his eyes with tears of sympathy.
Of this, the widely-extended, glassy eyes, and the stiffened features, were sufficient evidence.
At one end of the terrace a stairway led down to the lower story of the palace, and at the other end a high square door was masked by a heavy curtain of rich purple and gold stuff, that fell in thick folds to the glassy floor.
The cloudless sky became gradually suffused with a soft rose-tint, which covered its whole surface, painting alike the glassy sheet of the bay, and glowing most vividly on the mountains to the eastward.
So thought Captain Bream one lovely summer day, some time after the events just narrated, as he sat on the bridge of a swift steamer which cut like a fish through the glassy waves of the North Sea.
The glassy surface of the sea was effectually broken, and a field of rippling indigo took the place of the ethereal sheet of blue.
Chill evenings the mallard drakes cry continually from the glassy pools, the bittern's hollow boom rolls along the water paths.
The air came over it in glassy waves, carrying its dry, aromatic perfume to one's nostrils.
The glassy eyes, wide open, seemed to exercise a spell over him.
