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GLISTENING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reflecting light
Example:
shining white enamel
Synonyms:
glistening; glossy; lustrous; sheeny; shining; shiny
Classified under:
Similar:
bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb glisten
Context examples:
For the banners of war had been flung to the wind once more, and over those glistening peaks was the highway along which Honor pointed in an age when men had chosen her as their guide.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It had darkened since I left, and now I could only see here and there the glistening of moisture upon the black walls, and far away down at the end of the shaft the gleam of the broken water.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I noted Oofty-Oofty, holding the end of a bandage and looking upon the scene, his velvety and luminous eyes glistening in the light like a deer’s eyes, and yet I knew the barbaric devil that lurked in his breast and belied all the softness and tenderness, almost womanly, of his face and form.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He crossed to an oaken cupboard, and as he threw it open I caught a glimpse of glistening rows of parallel barrels, like the pipes of an organ.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
He set down the receiver and came toward us, glistening slightly, to take our stiff straw hats.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
