Students sometimes were able to predict when they would be "taken up" or called on; if their answers were insufficient, students were "glistered" or disapproved, the professor recording the poor performance in his grade book. ❋ Erika Lindemann (2004)
As morning star, dew glistered web, I am your alastor. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
When she set it on the table in front of Inman, he looked down on the plate and nearly cried as he watched the butter melt across the egg yolks and the whites and the brown meat and the yellow grits until the whole plate glistered in the taper light. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)
Stars glistered in blackness, but eastward the sky was lightening. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)
About two kilometers hence, close to the southern horizon, a metallic band glistered from edge to edge of vision, some three meters wide. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)
Downhill glistered the city, lights in constellations and fountains, upward radiance of towers, firefly dance of arrears. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1972)
The light about her grew clearer and more lustrous; the faint strains of melody more glorious, and the perfumed air sweeter still; and lo! the whole place was thronged with white-winged spirits, clad all in garments so pure and spotless that they glistered at every turn. ❋ Julie Mathilde Lippmann (N/A)
Then came the great company of men and women, which had taken divine orders, whose garments glistered all the streets over. ❋ Lucius Apuleius (N/A)
Ambassadors themselves (for at home in their own country they were noble men) in cloth of gold, with great chains of gold, with gold hanging at their ears, with gold rings upon their fingers, with brooches and aglettes* of gold upon their caps, which glistered full of pearls and precious stones; to be short, trimmed and adorned with all those things, which among the ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The banks were lines of dusk, except where some lone cottonwood loomed skyward like a giant ghost clothed with a mantle that glistered and darkled in the chill star-sheen. ❋ John G. Neihardt (1927)
His ruddy brown beard glistered with the shining scales of the fish, for he had a habit of standing by the hut door looking out to sea and stroking his beard, when another man would have smoked and rested. ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)
They bred in him belief that he was coming to happiness by that sea road that glistered before us. ❋ Unknown (1922)
The place smelled stale; the slate roofs glistered in the and heat. ❋ Unknown (1913)
As the train sped downhill, the sun rose in splendour behind the Murge hills, devouring mists so thickly couched that, struck by the first beams, they glistered like compact snow-fields, while their shaded portions might have been mistaken for stretches of mysterious swamp, from which an occasional clump of tree-tops emerged, black and island-like. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
Yet such as had no judgment or experience kept all that glistered, and would not be persuaded but it was rich because of the lustre; and brought of those, and of marcasite withal, from Trinidad, and have delivered of those stones to be tried in many places, and have thereby bred an opinion that all the rest is of the same. ❋ Unknown (1909)
And as he travelled, it by chance began to rain, and therefore clapped his basin on his head to save his hat from staining, because it belike was a new one; and the basin being clean scoured, glistered half a league off. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The place smelled stale; the slate roofs glistered in the arid heat. ❋ Unknown (1907)
