The windows of the long wing which stretched out towards the garden glistened in the moonbeams, and the light coloured wall of the house made a bright background for the dark mask of trees waving gently in the night breeze.
Then crossing the street, he saw that the house whose windows glistened in the sunlight was a house which he knew well from its other side, its front facade.
The man's eyes glistened wildly in the binnacle light as he jumped round to the other side and spun round the wheel.
I took a peep at my double, and discovered that he had not moved, his arm was still over his eyes; but his chest heaved; his hair was wet; his chin glistened with perspiration.
Through the gloomy night a single star glistened like a cold, proud eye.
The sun set; the stars glistened in the dark firmament; and he flew back.
When Astra stood before the board and reckoned out long sums, Psyche looked very earnestly at her sister's star, which glistened on her head, in her coal-black hair.
Tears stood in his eyes and glistened on his cheeks; he carried a great open book, and the binding was of velvet, with great silver clasps.
Lucy's eyes glistened with delight, and, stooping down, she imprinted a kiss upon the forehead of her considerate and kind friend.
Then two tears stole out and glistened on his lashes.
Outside of this bower of green--a darker green than the velvet meadow- grass about it--glistened the roofs and windows of the village houses.
Over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds.
Others polished the blade until all the rust was removed and it glistened like burnished silver.
Then the big gate swung slowly open, and they all passed through and found themselves in a high arched room, the walls of which glistened with countless emeralds.
Every sapling, dappled hazel, sloughing birch, or glabrous maple, glistened with the plumes of light, and every leaf was twinkling.
Then, as Cradock turned away, not wanting to make much of it, John came before him with sadness and love, and his blue eyes glistened softly.
Then the latch of the gate for the last time clicked, when he was out of sight, and the laurustinus by the pier, beginning to bud for the winter, glistened in the moonlight with a silent storm of tears.
Far away seaward a huge vessel was going west, leaving behind a trail of smoke; on his right a white-sailed yacht or two glistened in the sun.
He held up the ring to the light, his white hand looking very thin and wasted, and the worn gold glistened and the old engraved blood-stone showed its design almost as clearly as when it was first cut.
The man thus adjured turned sharply, and saw close to him a sturdy-looking figure clothed from head to foot in black mackintosh, which glistened as it dripped with the showery spray.
There was a lapse of time devoted to thought, and then Aunt Marguerite's eyes glistened with malice, as she saw Madelaine approach.
And the train glided on over the tall scaffold-like bridges, the tree-tops glistened in the silvery moonlight, and there was a restful feeling of calm in her spirit that she had not known for days.
Oh, how gloriously the winter sunshine glistened across the snow on the lawn, and how the gay equipages with their merry loads swept by him, as he turned into the thoroughfare!
The little widow's eyes glistened at the pile of splintered boards tumbling down on the kitchen floor.
The pebbles glistened bright in the sun, and bore the darkened hue of recent wet.
I had actually stretched out my naked foot to take the first step, when I observed, as the sun suddenly broke out from behind a cloud, that the light glistenedon the smooth surface.
It was elaborately outlined and adorned, a striking example of the best skill in Indian beadwork, and it glistened in the shadows of the dull, shabby room.
The rays of the sun idealized even the muddy road, of which a glimpse was caught, for the pasty clay glistened like the surface of a stream.
Or was it the presence, tones, and gestures of a girl with brow and neck like the snow that glistened on the mountain slopes above them, and large true eyes that sometimes seemed gray and again blue?
His shirt was ragged and dirty, and had fallen completely away from one arm and shoulder, and the billowy muscles glistened in the sun.
Its eyes shone; its fangs glistened and gleamed; its hands clutched the air; its tone was husky with suppressed fury; its rage would have stormed the barriers of the grave.
Scarcely had he made his first move, when the jeweled hands of royal woman glistened beside him, and right royally have they borne their part.
Faces were eagerly turned towards him, eyes glistened with the fires of hate, and hands were clenched as though each one present was imbued with the same feelings which animated their sanguinary leader.
The hours flew swiftly by, and the day of execution drew near, and still a ray of hope glistened through the gloom which surrounded him.
They followed the course of the stream, whose waters glistened in the rays of the morning's sun like polished silver.
The cobbler's eyes glistened with the memory, but shadowed almost instantly.
They decided that every penny Jinnie brought in should go to enriching the house, and the girl's eyes glistened as she heard the shoemaker list over the things that would make them comfortable.
In the splendor of it the solitude of ice and snow glistenedwithout end.
Mr. Smith's inscrutable eyes glistened into something as nearly approaching a twinkle as they were capable.
She left the table and went into the kitchen, and Mr. Wilks's eyesglistened as she returned with a large brown jug full of foaming ale and filled his glass.
His face glistened and his huge mouth broke into tremulous smiles.
She had noticed his hands, how thick his fingers were and close together; yet how deftly he had used them, without smearing the cuffs of his silk shirt or the sleeves of his coat with the oil that glistened everywhere.
A speckled bar of moonlight glistened on the damp floor of the ante-shrine and showed a dim arch or two--then darkness.
He staggered across the room to the sideboard, opened the drawer, and the thing glistened in his hand.
His white hair glistened with brilliantine, and there was a gardenia in his buttonhole.
Her bobbed hairglistened under the light like the dome of the Palace of Cooch Behar under the Indian sun.
Faultless and fair, all in the moony light, As one ashamed, she looked upon the ground, And her white raimentglistened in his sight.
His eye glistened with the same fatuous determination he had shown at first.
A slight suffusion glistened under her pretty brown lashes.
Swans floated on the lakes which glistened with skiffs, while an orchestra, composed of the finest executants in the world, inebriated with poetry the soul of the royal fool.
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