"Glisten" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gout, his years, and be a boy again an hour or two in thought, and blood, and early fire. He made the women's bosoms pant and swell, and seem to aspire to be the nests and cradles of heroes, and their eyes flash and glisten, and their cheeks flush and grow pale by turns; and the four little papered walls that confined them seemed to fall without noise, and they were away in thought out of a carpeted temple of wax, small talk, nonentity, and nonentities, away to sea-breezes that they almost felt in their hair ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... rapidly on the schooner. I could see the brass glisten on the tiller as it banged about, and still no soul appeared upon her decks. I could not choose but suppose she was deserted. If not, the men were lying drunk below, where I might batten them down, perhaps, and do what I chose with ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... gallery, for all the arches converged towards it. It was garlanded from top to bottom with their roses and their leaves, all worked in pink and lilac shells, interspersed with small pieces of shining amber and polished malachite. The flicker of the lamp he carried, made it glisten like a mass of jewel-work, and, absorbed in his close examination of this unique specimen of ancient art, Sir Philip did not at once perceive that another light beside his own glimmered from out the furthest archway ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... discover how much gratification can be obtained from eating and drinking. If you wish to thoroughly enjoy your dinner, take a thirty-mile country walk after breakfast and don't touch anything till you get back. How your eyes will glisten at sight of the white table-cloth and steaming dishes then! With what a sigh of content you will put down the empty beer tankard and take up your knife and fork! And how comfortable you feel ...
— Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome
... Cat's Eye is so called because it possesses the peculiar ray of light or glisten seen in a cat's eye in the dark. I have a limited stock only, and offer you one for only *44 cts.*, post paid. The same in Ear Drops, choice, *87 cents*. Send Stamp for large illustrated catalogue of Mineral Cabinets, Agate Novelties, ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 • Various
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