The quantity of refuse, broken, and rotten mica piled up about the factories is immense, and all the roads round about glisten with its scales.
There is great pleasure in turning out the brown-jacketed fellows into the sunshine of a royal September day, and seeing them glisten as they lie thickly strewn on the warm soil.
The western walls of it are formed by the precipices of Nipple Top, not so striking nor so bare as the great slides of Dix which glisten in the sun like silver, but rough and repelling, and consequently alluring.
All the hillsides glisten and sparkle like cloth of gold, each glass knob on the telephone poles is like a resplendent jewel, and the long morning shadows of the trees lie blue upon the snow.
In the field below a ploughman was at work: I could see the furrows of the dark earth glisten as he turned it over.
In a few moments he saw it glisten in the water, beauteous as a boquet of submerged flowers.
Think how sad I should be if--" The thought produced a sudden caress, a sudden glisten in her grey eyes.
She saw the glisten of a few grey hairs in the dark thick patch above his ear; she could see the texture of his lip as it pouted beneath the sideways hang of his pipe.
Through dust-clouds rising thick and dun, As smoke of battle o'er us, Their white horns glisten in the sun, Like plumes and crests before us.
High over sounding workshops spires glisten in the sun,--silent fingers pointing heavenward.
Where the dews glisten and the songbirds warble, His dust to dust is laid, In Nature's keeping, with no pomp of marble To shame his modest shade.
Away to the eastward glisten the villas on Cape Martan, to the west rises the ancient city of Monaco, behind me towers the Casino, the scene of more misery than almost any other spot on earth.
The place above is sweet and pure, while the towers with the passing rains of many centuries, glisten white in the sunlight.
I saw his eyes glisten through the branches of the tree like those of a tiger.
What savage satisfaction would glisten in the eyes of the father, and what sorrow dim those of the daughter!
His eyes would "glisten in friendship, or beam in reply.
Sometimes, on account of this, a misunderstanding arose between them, which continued until small tears began to glistenin the eyes of the girl.
The palanquin, which remained forgotten on the King's back, and the tents glistened, just as whitewashed houses glisten in a bright night.
Sidney gazed at her, and saw the dull lamplight just glisten on her hair.
A merry word, and mark if the light does not glisten on them, if the diffident lips do not form a smile which you would not have more decided lest something of its sweetness should be sacrificed.
Often, as we talked, unnoticed by her father she would drop her work and the tears glisten in her eyes.
From the pitcher, placed between us, How the waters laugh and glisten In the head of old Silenus!
And the women shall no longer Bear the dreary doom of labor, But be changed to birds, and glisten With the beauty of the starlight, Painted with the dusky splendors Of the skies and clouds of evening!
His lordly ships of ice Glisten in the sun; On each side, like pennons wide, Flashing crystal streamlets run.
Come, old friend, sit down and listen As it passes thus between us, How its wavelets laugh and glisten In the head of old Silenus!
The morning sun is shining on their shields Of gold and brass; the mountains glisten with them, And shine like lamps.
What torches glare and glisten Upon the swords and armor of these men?
A bright, clear fire blazing in the wide, tiled hearth makes the heavy, polished brass fender and "dogs" glisten like gold.
All we can do is to stand down here in the garden and take off our hats; the starshine lights upon our heads, and where mine is a little bald, I daresay you can see it glisten in the darkness.
I was now gaining rapidly on the schooner; I could see the brassglisten on the tiller as it banged about; and still no soul appeared upon her decks.
He was single, the countess a widow--Sarah already saw glisten before her eyes a sovereign's crown.
When morn displays its roseate hue, Tears glisten in her orbs so bright; These fall to earth in shape of dew, And fill each flow’ret with delight.
This much I confide in thee: ere many hours have passed, the mighty walls of this great city will glisten with the spears of Roman men, in number such as Ephesus has never seen since Claudian ruled or Nero wielded power.
Benny redoubled his efforts and slowly they shifted again toward the center of the room where the reflected sunlight made the blue metal of the Colt glisten as it lay in the wreckage.
Sweat made their flesh glisten and then became mud as the soot mantled them.
With one of her rapid glances, she even detected something like a tear glisten in his eye.
Then she would hold it up, let it glisten a moment in the sun and then put it in a basket.
Friendship it was that brought together these seven hoary heads that glisten here in the sunlight, thirty, no forty years ago, and it has held them together through every storm, in good and evil days.
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