1 They drove slowly up the road between fields glistening under the pale sun, and then bent to the right down a lane edged with spruce and larch.
2 Upon the wooded hills above the river, the dogwood blossoms lay glistening and white, as if snow still lingered among the greenery.
3 The floors were glistening and bare except for a few bright rag rugs, and the white walls unornamented save for one corner which Melanie had fitted up as a shrine.
4 The sun picked out with faint glistening the apples and the furred pink peaches half hidden in the green leaves.
5 Melanie looked tired and there were tears glistening on her lashes but her face was serene again.
6 He leaned unpleasantly close in order to convey this suggestion, and she fancied she caught a significant aroma which explained the dark flush on his face and the glistening dampness of his forehead.
7 But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 8 Thus glistening for a moment, as slowly it subsided, and sank.
9 He looked like some glistening African god of pleasure, full of strong, savage blood.
10 I detested his pink, bald head, and his yellow whiskers, always soft and glistening.
11 In the center of it was a huge carven bowl, with the glistening gleam of ferns and the red and purple of rare orchids, glowing from a light hidden somewhere in their midst.
12 Though it growled loudly and fiercely, and there were instants when its glistening eyeballs might be seen, it gave no other indications of hostility.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 13 There in that hollow of the sun-baked field were congregated the grasshopper, the ant, and the beetle, rolling pebbles of sun-baked earth through the glistening stubble.
14 The car ploughed uphill through the long squalid straggle of Tevershall, the blackened brick dwellings, the black slate roofs glistening their sharp edges, the mud black with coal-dust, the pavements wet and black.
15 'Yes, my dear, yes,' rejoined the Jew; his eyes glistening, and every muscle in his face working, with the excitement that the inquiry had awakened.