How To Use Glisten In A Sentence
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Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street.
Hodge and His Masters
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The glistening mushrooms were plump and earthy against the dry, crunchy pastry softened by the delicate, herby cream sauce.
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Her straight, medium-length, blonde hair glistened, and her baby blue eyes and sweet red mouth were picture-perfect.
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There were checkerberry-pipe and licorice-pipe and sassafras-pipe, and -- how Wort's eyes did glisten and his mouth water as he imagined the different kinds there!
The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play
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Brown pelicans dive into glistening sapphire waves to grab tiny silvery fish that jump from the water then fall back with a soft plop.
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She'll approach the perfume counter boldly, spray her ample poitrine and graceful, swanlike neck until it's glistening like a freshly dunked donut and writhe in olfactory ecstasy.
What to Give for Christmas to the Over-Applier?
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The intruder was a big man, his face glistening with the effort of hoisting himself up.
The Bullet Catchers
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Darcy's face was white and glistening with sweat.
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Glisten breastpin, no matter you fasten it on collar or hair, can have the effect that make the finishing point.
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Sweat glistened on his forehead.
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His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buck-teeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin.
Vanity Fair
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White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Twinkling flashbulbs lit up Centre Court like fireworks in the night when Sampras kissed the trophy once again, his eyes glistening from the tears he had shed moments earlier after he whacked his final service winner to beat Patrick Rafter 6-7
Sampras wins historic Wimbledon title
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They call it a "shimmer" - a glint, a glitter, a glisten.
The Guardian World News
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My home on Sunday became a place of carefree fun, little wet boys running to and fro, glistening beads of moisture running down their soft nubile chests.
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White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite a slightly receding hairline, his ample, glistening night-black hair remained full and healthy.
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Why does everything else pale in comparison to the rich, glistening red of a rare filet mignon?
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How could she stay indoors, when the glistening sunshine was pouring down and all the mountains seemed to glow?
Heidi
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Pompey had laid out open chests on glistening display that morning which contained seventy-five million silver drachmae: more than the annual tax revenue of the entire Roman world.
CONSPIRATA
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Anne dropped on her knees and gazed out into the June morning, her eyes glistening with delight.
Anne of Green Gables
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One minute the plains are empty, the dew still glistening in the early-morning light.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the way it glistened I could tell it was only just beginning to congeal.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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She quickly ran to her dresser, pulling the first drawer her open, her eyes searching for the glisten of gold.
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Imagine a snow-white bowl of yoghurt topped with this glistening, exotic conserve.
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Her hair glistened with rain as though it had been lacquered.
TOY SHOP
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They soon subsided into a bout of laughter while tears of mirth glistened in their eyes.
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He stopped and turned around, pushing his fringe out of his deep dark eyes, glistening with tears.
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The extra light cast eerie shadows on the glistening metal walls, not helping the sick feeling in her stomach.
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Her forehead had small beads of sweat on it that glistened in the lamp light.
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He looks out of the window, his eyes glistening.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cut surface revealed a glistening mucoid appearance, with extensive hemorrhage.
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They've been there for some time, glistening in his eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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I would recognize the slanted eyes, the dark glistening skin and the high cheekbones anywhere.
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Many were kelts, fish that had spawned and then spent the winter in the river, but there were four fresh-run salmon glistening silver from the cold waters of the North Sea.
Salmon are back in Scottish rivers in force, and as elusive as ever
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His hair, dyed an incongruous brown and brilliantined, an old man's vanity, glistened under the light like a waxy skullcap.
MAMBO
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As he sat in the sunshine he glistened all over, like an Ethiop besprent with silver; for his dark limbs and mighty chest had been oiled, and then powdered with antimony.
To Have and to Hold
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The droplets of dew hung from the yellow furze and they glistened like a thousand diamonds.
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As Bulgakov, Jennings is reed-like, glistening with anxiety: the embodiment of febrility and ill-fated aspiration.
Collaborators; Three Days in May; His Teeth – review
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Hulking guys serve up platters of prawns, steamed crabs, and just-shucked oysters glistening in brine.
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A slender adult leader with raven hair and glistening alabaster skin which reflected the full moon's light was playing a set of rich, nut-brown pipes.
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I'm not, mother; only think" -- Nancy's eyes glistened -- "no more velveteen masquerading as velvet, no more bargain-counter shoes and gloves, no more percaline petticoats with silk flounces, no more
Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905
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The naan bread should drip with garlic butter, the chicken glisten with chopped coriander and ghee.
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You want to see the very grain of the wooden deck, glistening with sea spray?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was an uplifting ceremony which saw a glisten in many an eye!
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He was bronzed and his skin glistened with sweat.
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Rain trickled incessantly down each man's face and glistened in dusty beads upon foreheads, clothing at last gave way to complete saturation, and water, collecting in pools until over ankle deep, oozed slushily in and out of the eyelet holes.
Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
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His eyes glisten with unshed tears as he reaches the threshold of his release, desperate to rid himself of the unwanted pleasure but requiring Kenneth's dispensation to do so.
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They've been there for some time, glistening in his eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Around him, the mountains of southwest Montana towered, glistening peaks lit by snow at their higher altitudes, under a sky so blue it made your teeth ache and wads of cirrocumulus clouds piled high.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
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Sunlight streams over fields, birds perch in trees, rows of bright crops glisten on the hills.
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Far below, beneath shreds of glistening cloud, York is laid out like a map: the Ouse glinting in the sun, the Minster rearing above the clutter of buildings around its feet.
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They soon subsided into a bout of laughter while tears of mirth glistened in their eyes.
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Frustrated and annoyed, she sat alone upon a lone tree trunk, the soft grass glistening from the dew.
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Warrington looked with good-natured interest at the young fellow dandifying himself up to a pitch of completeness; and appearing at length in a gorgeous shirt-front and neckcloth, fresh gloves, and glistening boots.
The History of Pendennis
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His tan skin was glistening with sweat and his jet-black hair was greasy.
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When she opened her dark eyes they glistened with unshed tears, round in her pale and stricken face.
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I follow the trail back down through the forest, past glades of ferns glistening with the mist of slow-running falls on their way back to the ocean.
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There was some guy, a curator, standing by me going, ‘the delicate brush strokes Vermeer used, look at the glisten on her lips, what do you see in her eyes?’
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How could she stay indoors, when the glistening sunshine was pouring down and all the mountains seemed to glow?
Heidi
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Stir in the unwashed rice until glistening, add the mustard and a third of the stock.
Times, Sunday Times
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He opened the pocketknife to expose its glistening blade.
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The sun was pouring into the courtyard and his brawny arms glistened with sweat.
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The smooth, clean stroke is there, along with her glistening apprehension of sun and weather.
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Her bright red hair flew out behind her, and her pale sweat slicked skin and sea green eyes glistened in the setting sun.
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The gorgeous tonal colors of this music have rarely glistened so brightly!
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Sioux medicine men collected tiny, glistening pebbles from anthills and used them in medicine rattles.
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A roast seems right somehow, be it a piece of velvety beef or a joint of golden pork with its glistening coat of crackling.
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My friend had gone white, his eyes glazing over, sweat glistening on his forehead.
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Three pebbles, cool and glistening from the river, fell wet into his palm.
ETERNITY • by Bill West
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Hadn't it seemed to glisten like a skinned tomato?
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Isarn, his lungs filled with bitter steam, sweat glistening on his face and thick forgeman™s arms, gently withdrew Stormblade from the trough.
Stormblade
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From the way it glistened I could tell it was only just beginning to congeal.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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My mom sat back, quietly eating her dinner, but the glisten in her eyes was evident.
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A stream of laser light, almost invisible in the near-vacuum, played across the creature's head and glistening body.
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The black mane had been transformed into a glistening, rippling aurora of ochroid indigo that framed the rest of the regal visage in a magnificent effulgence.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms
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He licked the glisten from her fur and nuzzled among the sensitive whiskers around her snout.
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I exclaimed, and tears, such as glisten in the eyes of childhood, gathered in mine.
Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
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They're like thumb holes in his ribcage, suppurating and glistening with pus.
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She turned to look at him, and he winced to see a slight glistening in her green eyes.
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Soon the music wells into a sensuous patterning that covers the whole tessitura, climaxing in the uppermost reaches where glistening ostinati by the ensemble are captured, looped and repeated as an extra textural layer.
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She stared up at him, with a glisten of hatred in her eyes.
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A spider web glistens stickily in a branch shading the ant hole.
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Then, while Billy wandered in a vain search for abalones, Saxon lay and dabbled in the crystal-clear water of a roak-pool, dipping up handfuls of glistening jewels -- ground bits of shell and pebble of flashing rose and blue and green and violet.
CHAPTER VI
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[1] Firm and hand-locked the war-burnie glistened,
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
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The multicolored wings glistening in the sunlight as they drift.
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The blossom on flowering trees is now breathtaking, with heaps of dazzling pinks and whites glistening in the spring sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
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And then he marched from his training pitch, sweat glistening on his many tattoos, looking weary.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has to be close-up footage of humming birds with their vibrant feathers glistening in the sun like fluorescent chain mail.
Times, Sunday Times
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She saw treetops covered in white snow, which glistened and sparkled in the light of the sun.
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He looks out of the window, his eyes glistening.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coyote slowly ascended the mountain, sweat glistening on his brow, his thoughts lost in the events of the previous day.
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Anne dropped on her knees and gazed out into the June morning, her eyes glistening with delight.
Anne of Green Gables
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I seen his eyes kind of glisten when I said this about him being touched.
Somewhere in Red Gap
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“Tough guy,” he says, and walks off toward the samovars of tea, and the trays heaped with dilled herring, with fish glistening in the ruby glaze of pomegranate sauce, and with about a million different kinds of piroshki.
White Cat
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But all the titanic steel structure above and the unfloored bottom-chords and girders of the outer, or extension, arm of the cantilever had been swept bare of snow by the winter gales and left glistening with the glaze of the last shower of sleet.
Out of the Primitive
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From here he could already see the tiny beads of sweat beginning to accumulate across her brow and collar bone, making her soft golden honey skin glisten in the light.
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Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
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There, on its wooded height, the pentice roofs glistening in the sunlight, stood Chinon, with its triple castle, so full of the memories of history; and all around spread the wide Tourangeais.
Orrain A Romance
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Green samphire tickles the saltmarshes, glistening channels weave through the mudflats and tall marram grasses sprout from the dunes.
Times, Sunday Times
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From time to time as a gap in the trees appears I catch sight of this glistening stretch of cobalt blue water below.
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I watch the spreading ripples of her moonlit eyes, hypnotized by the suede kiss of her insatiableness. the lady of the lake presses herself against the reaching shelf of a sandy mouth reabsorbing the tiny trembling pools of pleasures glistening frenzy. and in my swimming wake there is an unravelling scar upon the surface, barely visible if only for an instance metaphor for the finite ness of my life and perhaps that is why
Wendchymes Diary Entry
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Exquisite gravadlax rolled around a cylinder of potato salad was a highlight, as was a fat slab of foie gras, which glistened dark gold from the pan but wobbled with a lovely rareness.
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It was a beautiful, round, full placenta: dark red on one side - the villous side, which had been attached to the wall of my womb - and glistening silver on Jacob's side, due to the covering of his membranes.
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He sat down in the spot Sophia had just vacated on the bed, laying his glistening sword ostentatiously across his lap.
The Saracen: The Holy War
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The tent contained a collection of herbs and strange concoctions which glistened in the lamplight, lending a sinister glow to the place.
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They were standing on the banks of the lake in the forest, watching the sunlight glisten off its silver surface.
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Behind him the skyline was still dominated by the White Mountains, their snowy peaks glistening in the afternoon sun.
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She came out of the wood of glistening birch, and with the first fires of the sun blazoning her unbound hair raced lightly across the dew-dripping meadow.
CHAPTER 2
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Blue skinks, bearded dragons, crocodiles, alien-looking veiled chameleons, reticulated pythons, leopard tortoises, and tiny glistening frogs and toads of every color.
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He gave her a sickening smile and then his lips drew back to reveal his long sharp glistening fangs.
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He put down the spoon and fled to the byre, his eyes glistening with tears.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Its fixed eyes, too, were living gems, and from the point of its dangerous arrowy head the glistening tongue flickered ceaselessly as I stood a few yards away regarding it.
Green Mansions
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Scores of Chicago's mortar and brick factory buildings and warehouses squat within a shadow's reach of glistening skyscrapers.
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Three dark mounds sit on my plate, glistening moistly: a fat teaspoon each of beluga, osetra and sevruga caviar.
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It glistens with a thick varnish-like finish that compels opening, parting at the center like a medieval church's baptistry doors.
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Then gazed up at distant peaks where the chamois gambolled and the snow still glistened.
Times, Sunday Times
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In mucosal edema the surface has a granular appearance or appears to be ‘dry’ so that it does not glisten.
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The flunkies had left their muckamuck exposed, but it had also turned its glistening head in their direction.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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A glistening example of sunshine noir.
Times, Sunday Times
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Close by, a red steel bridge glistened from the mist and the street light.
Zapotitlan (Land Of The Vultures)
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Dew glistened in the grass on the side of the road like little twinkling diamonds in the rough.
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The view seems idyllic - a broad expanse of glistening lake under a big blue sky, surrounded by treed shoreline.
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His lightly muscled tanned bare skin glistened in the sun and he felt very much like an article on display.
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There, he found a pagoda surrounded by green-painted torii on four sides, and coursed by a glistening stream with fat koi.
The Fox in the Garden
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A bald man wanted his portrait enhanced with glistening black hair.
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The road was being resurfaced and glistened with fudge-soft tarmac.
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The tongue and mucous membranes lose their glistening appearance and the buccal mucosa becomes sticky.
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She had turned from the mirror, eyes glistening with tears, and launched herself into his arms.
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Muscles on his upper arms glistened as the hot sun of the afternoon baked its way across the open pasture.
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Some reduction sauce from his noisy devouring of the asado steak sticks to his hoary beard and glistens like a dewdrop.
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The sight of the embroidered huipiles, long rabona skirts, glistening gold jewelry and floral hair adornments adds to the already exotic appearance of the Tehuantepec and Juchitan markets.
Tehuana Mamas Cook Up Magic: Food and Fiestas in the Isthmus
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A few pearls roll off, unfurling some genuinely glistening sounds for the waning summer days.
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With the glistening, rippling runs and arpeggios at which he excels, he played a chamber arrangement, accompanied by players from his Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra.
Daniel Barenboim - review
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They can open stores in glistening new malls.
The Sun
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On the sea far ahead a frothing whitecap broke the monotony of color, a flyingfish jumped out of the water to glisten for a moment in the sun, loose seaweed floated on the surface, to change in some degree the intense blue.
Greener Than You Think
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Local specialities include seafood platters piled high with glistening crabs, lobster and prawns on a bed of crushed ice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The curving strip of yellow sand glistened and the water radiated a vivid aquamarine.
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A glistening black stuffed crow is perched on the volume's edge, its splayed wings and claws eerily delineated against the lucent white pages.
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One minute the plains are empty, the dew still glistening in the early-morning light.
Times, Sunday Times
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It can flourish only when there are still occasional pockets of the population who behave well – that is to say courteously, decorously and without leaving glistening lumps ofphlegm wherever they go – to replenish the stocks during the day.
Lucy Mangan: The sound of the suburbs
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A puff of green smoke glistened upward and dissipated.
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The 10-minute title track opens with delicate, impetuously flowing lines that grow more emphatic, become glisteningly impressionistic, and then dissolve into quietly playful prancings.
Irène Schweizer: To Whom It May Concern – review
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The handsome toreador sat at the bar, his blue eyes and white hair both lightly glistening alike in the poor light the CPI could offer.
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Locust Abortion Technician was a glorious mire, a glistening palace of ordure, a cataract of dysentery.
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Carrot end still glistening orange, clean as whistle.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spite of the fact that he had been up all night, therefore, his eyes were bright with the mirror glisten which is the gift of long hours in the open air.
Every Man for Himself
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There are platters of fruit with bright quartered oranges, slices of pink melon with glistening black seeds, and pieces of green kiwi fruit, yellow banana.
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Their neatly tarred framework glistened, and they were always newly lime-washed, ochrous yellow or dazzling white, sea-green, or blue as the sky.
Pelle the Conqueror — Complete
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Her normally perfect ash-blonde hair was plastered to her forehead, and her cheekbones glistened in the dim light.
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The blossom on flowering trees is now breathtaking, with heaps of dazzling pinks and whites glistening in the spring sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cityscape was a granite-and-glass mountain range, all glistening peaks and shadowy valleys of ceaseless life, a throbbing, pulsating, never-resting free-for-all of people and ideas and stories just screaming to be told.
Sins of Two Fathers
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The fierce glisten of the candle caught the kitten's tawny eyes as she looked up.
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Slimmed down Shane a waxwork Warney SHANE Warne is again hitting the headlines, as the Aussie spin king sheds weight and uses face creams to achieve a glistening new look that has seen him described as a waxwork.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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You want to see the very grain of the wooden deck, glistening with sea spray?
Times, Sunday Times
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The temple was glistening with odd shadows and angles thanks to the moonbeams, and light reflected on and off his face.
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Here were the tropical plumage of the palm, the dark green masses of the live-oak, the glistening verdure of wild orange-groves; and from out the shadowy thickets hung the wreaths of the jessamine and the scarlet trumpets of the bignonia.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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His immaculately combed coat glistened in the late afternoon sun and felt soft and silky under my fingers.
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It opens with a glistening Moore in skintight, mid-riff baring workout clothes doing yoga.
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From the way it glistened I could tell it was only just beginning to congeal.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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Her forehead had small beads of sweat on it that glistened in the lamp light.
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His eyes glisten from a web of wrinkles, and I can imagine an event for each line drawn: flying in Vietnam, coaching the Port Arthur Toreadors for fifteen years, losing a wife named Marguerite to encephalitis, losing his only child to the state of California.
Between Here and the Yellow Sea
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The naan bread should drip with garlic butter, the chicken glisten with chopped coriander and ghee.
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The Haworthia attenuata has a stemless rosette of really tough dark green leaves that have bands of glistening white tubercles.
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Bright flies were embedded in the stringy pulp, the glistening flesh of the fruit.
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The blossom on flowering trees is now breathtaking, with heaps of dazzling pinks and whites glistening in the spring sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
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New pastures full of scarecrows and glistening barbed razor wire and crisscrossing pipelines pumping petrodollars into the pockets of imperium.
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I rubbed and scrubbed that thing, until it fairly shone and glistened in the morning sun.
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Already his beard was glistening white with snow.
Somewhere East of Life
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The pale blue cobblestones glistened as the sun's rays sparkled on the light sheen of water.
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He pulled away after a few moments and smiled at me tears still glistening in his eyes.
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From the way it glistened I could tell it was only just beginning to congeal.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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Looking out across the pond one sees a cherry tree in palest pink, and, farther away, the glistening white trunks of an old birch tree.
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The sunlight glistened off the highly polished wooden table and chairs and the copper pots and pans.
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Speak of Jackson Pollack, Willem DeKooning and Mark Rothko with worshipful tears glistening in your upturned eyes, taking frequent breaks to compose yourself in between bursts of praise.
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Mysterious, apertural, glistening, and crimped, the set semed to be awaiting the entrance of an actor to make its meaning clear.
Villa Incognito
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The shoulders of Jon's heavy jacket glistened and sparkled with unmelted ice.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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An older widow nearby sang softly, eyes closed and tears glistening her beautiful face.
Christianity Today
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Somewhere, high in the trees, two cranky crows cawed and below them Salmon Creek glistened in the late afternoon sun.
POSEY'S POND
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‘Thanks,’ he said as he wrestled a drumstick free from the turkey's glistening body.
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White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Levy's glistening cascades of tonal warmth were pure instrumental bel canto.
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The intruder was a big man, his face glistening with the effort of hoisting himself up.
The Bullet Catchers
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Goodwood Revival isn't just about purring vintage cars and glistening classic motorcycles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Looking out across the pond one sees a cherry tree in palest pink, and, farther away, the glistening white trunks of an old birch tree.
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Crouching at opposite sides of a clay-floored ring, muscles taut and bodies glistening with sweat, the two sumo wrestlers stare each other down.
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There is always a plenitude of star gazing enthusiasts around the world who direct their telescopes toward glistening worlds of hope that hang in the dimmest chasms of an enigmatic universe.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1237
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Adam had risen early and decked every available spot with kinnikinnick until the room fairly glistened.
The Master-Knot of Human Fate
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His brawny arms glistened with sweat.
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Carrot end still glistening orange, clean as whistle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The swish of skates on the ice accentuated the daring dances, and then in more delicate moments the glistening spray shooting out from their feet looked like fairy dust.
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It has to be close-up footage of humming birds with their vibrant feathers glistening in the sun like fluorescent chain mail.
Times, Sunday Times
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The street glistened with the sheen of light rainfall.
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Nothing but the point of her poop remained, and there stood the stern and steadfast Don, cap-a-pie in his glistening black armor, immovable as a man of iron, while over him the flag, which claimed the empire of both worlds, flaunted its gold aloft and upwards in the glare of the tropic noon.
Westward Ho!
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We go swiftly up the path, still glistening with frost, and across the wide stone terrace to the double ironbound doors.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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On the glistening horizon two black dots appeared, separated, and became helicopters roaring low overhead and scattering the distracted fowl.
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Her glistening blue eyes shone in his mind, and the waves of curled red locks that fell constantly into those sapphire gems trailed across his vision.
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His eyes glisten as tears roll gently down his cheek.
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‘Things Will Never Be the Same’ begins with haunting choral samples before bursts of static and tendrils of looped guitar squall converge on distorted vocalese to form a final glistening drone.
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Blue they were, blue of a peculiar vibrancy, and blue were the glistening threads that ran down from blue-black circular convexities set within each of the points visible to me.
The Metal Monster