The "Scherzo" is shimmeringwith playfulness, and, in the Beethoven fashion, has a tender intermezzo amoroso.
The wrinkling and crawling of the sea far below are splendidly achieved in the soft, shimmering liquidity of the music.
It was such a day as Jean Marcel had dreamed of more than a year before, in January, back in the barrens, when powdery snow crystals danced in the air as the lifting sun-dogs turned white wastes of rolling tundra into a shimmering sea.
The light from the window of the hut was at last really visible, shimmeringthrough the darkness, and soon the benighted travellers stood under the snowy crags which towered above the little shieling.
Blanche could catch glimpses of the river, which still lashed itself into wild white foam as it hurried along; but the sunlight was shimmeringupon it now.
He came and leant silently against one of the fir-trees, and stood gazing into the pale larch plantation, with its long dark grass shimmering in the white moonlight.
In a moment the pool was a seething tumult of water, and in that moment Knight saw his goddess as the artist in him had yearned to see her, her beauty half-veiled and half-revealed in a shimmering robe of foam.
She flitted away in her shimmering fairy's dress, closely attended by Charlie Rivers, to persuade his father to give her a dance.
Far away the dark stretch of the sea sent back a silver shimmering in answer to the moon.
Somewhere, far off on that shimmering plain, Glaucon the Beautiful had fallen asleep; whether he waked in the land of Rhadamanthus, whether he had been stolen away by Leucothea and the other nymphs to be their playfellow, she did not know.
High over her head, in the unclouded sky, a vast web of shimmering silver was spreading out and out, like a broad, firmly woven veil.
Dazzled at first by her shimmering garments, it was not till the second moment that the ten thousand eyes sought her face.
Through the shimmering veil her form was clearly visible.
A ring of nothingness, whose outline was the faintest shimmering halo; more of the distant stars winked out swiftly behind that ghostly circle; it was the Dark Moon!
Glowingly luminous as it threw itself upon a subtle mass of shimmering light, it faded like a flickering flame, and went dark as its motion ceased.
It chanted its praise of the languorous days which lay ’neath the shimmering sun, Of the birch canoe and the Indian, too, who trapped in the forests dun.
The bright, clear nights, the shimmering moonbeams, carried him away into the fairy-land of story-books.
But on bright nights they became shimmering fountains of light, the moonbeams streaming over both tiers like water, gliding along the huge plates of zinc, and flowing over the edges of the vast superposed basins.
There was a sleepy breeze blowing in from the cooler sea, to take the place of that hot and shimmering air which had been rising all day from the corn-fields.
There was a shimmering in the air, and then everything disappeared, while on the lawn before the palace stretched a wide deep lake, in the crystal water of which swam little fish with eyes of pearl and scales of gold.
He sensed the fact that the big black bear would never fish again in the quiet pools and shimmering eddies, and that where for many days there had been peace and plenty, there was now great danger.
He expected to see her there, her slim white body shimmering in some dark shadow of overhanging spruce, or gleaming suddenly white as snow in one of the warm plashes of sunlight.
As it had saved the caribou, so this strip of water shimmering in the glow of the moon and stars had saved Baree.
It was not filled with shimmering riffles, and rocks about which the water sang and foamed.
It was in the open of the creek bottom, with and when the moon rose, and the stars filled the sky, Baree could look out and see the water of the stream shimmering in a glow almost as bright as day.
Straight ahead was the gleam of water--water shimmering softly in the starglow, and the sight of it sent a final great spurt of blood through the caribou's bursting heart.
I wandered along Neptuno Street to Belascoin, and then to the Parque Maceo, where I ignored the massed bronze and granite of its statue for the slightly undulating shimmering tide.
The Gulf Stream was indigo; along the side of the steamer, foam hissed with a sharp whiteness, and at the bow miniature rainbows hung shimmering in the spray.
In fact, all the colors were swirling and changing, shimmering from hue to hue.
I stared at the women and felt so sad at the sight of the hand-woven blankets they held their babies in, primary greens and reds and blues lovingly woven into shimmering patterns that mirrored the symbols across the sides of the stone room.
Then, iridescent blues and purples shimmering off his wings, his face evolves into the orange and black mask of a jaguar.
All around the sweep and the glory of shimmering ether, sun, sun, a world of sun, and these still calling for light!
Here in my brain it glowed, the shimmering of the dying sun upon the shore, the long gold line between the sand and sea, where the sliding foam caught fire and burned to death.
Hence natives who come across such a shimmering light or such a fungus are careful not to tread on it; much less would they eat the fungus.
It is supposed to go away to the tops of the mountains there to become, according to its age, either a shimmering light on the ground or a large sort of fungus, which is found only on the mountains.
Beneath them lay the Channel, shimmering in the April sun.
III A sky that was hung with stars looked down upon the shimmering roof-tops of Haileybury.
The shimmering atmosphere, hostile to man, which sealed the red desert was a lens that distorted and concealed by its intervention.
Again, as she had many weeks before, she was in the grip of a sensation that this desert through which they walked was only a surface thing, a shimmering mask to the reality which lay behind it.
Around, the veldt, dotted with feathery mimosa, lay shimmering in the afternoon heat.
The suits, patterned out of shimmering fabrilastex material, fit with skin-tight snugness over their long winter underwear and socks.
Then they papered the plexiglass and manned a spray-gun, giving the entire outer skin a thorough coat ofshimmering black lacquer.
The result was a large, sleek hull, with a shimmering basket-weave framework and frosty-white, fuzzy insulation showing through its transparent skin.
Their bodies were covered with a bright, shimmering skin.
