I seen his eyes kind of glisten when I said this about him being touched. From Wordnik.com. [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference
I exclaimed, and tears, such as glisten in the eyes of childhood, gathered in mine. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
As on him glisten there the heirlooms of the aged. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Tufts of his bleached hair glisten with a hard shine. From Wordnik.com. [FSC] Reference
Oh! how Tommy's eyes did glisten as he drank in every word. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
The boughs of the chestnut glisten with pointed reddish buds. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
When the yeasty breakers glisten softly in the shadowy light. From Wordnik.com. [Lays from the West] Reference
Why did his cold eye glisten, and his heart leap up as they went past!. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
The tall gables and chimneys of the great house glisten in the sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
My grandmother ladles us golden bowls of chicken soup which glisten with fat. From Wordnik.com. [Love] Reference
Later, Jimsy reviewed the Sawyer turkey with a reverential glisten in his eye. From Wordnik.com. [Jimsy The Christmas Kid] Reference
Tears slipped from her eyes, so that the raisins seemed to glisten in the bowl. From Wordnik.com. [Raisins] Reference
I saw his eyes glisten when I told him that I had the money at home to do it with. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize] Reference
He was thickly covered with dust and profuse perspiration made his dark skin glisten. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
They can make a soda pop glisten and crackle so you can almost feel it on your tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Violence In Our Culture] Reference
Guitars always chime, drums always boom, keyboards always glisten, strings always weep. From Wordnik.com. [Arcade Fire's bombast gets boring on new record, 'The Suburbs'] Reference
Cool misting lawn sprinklers, their umbral spay — brick walks glisten in the mottled light. From Wordnik.com. [Rittenhouse Square: excert from work-in-progress] Reference
And when he smiled, which he did at the children, they saw his white teeth glisten in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony] Reference
From his shower, water seemed caught on the ends of his short, light hair making it glisten. From Wordnik.com. [No One Is Safe] Reference
His statement is almost monotone, but the more he talks, the more his eyes redden, glisten wet. From Wordnik.com. [Rachel Ben-Avi: Now You See It, Now You Don't] Reference
Meanwhile the sun, shining in at the open window, made the feathers of the hummingbirds glisten. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
No settlement was yet in sight, but as the golden sun began to glisten on the snow-weighted trees. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
I'd like to see stockings stuffed with GPS units with head-up displays that glisten on windshields. From Wordnik.com. [Bagging the electronics] Reference
How many bright eyes glisten over their champagne, and merry tongues joke and laugh away the hours!. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Over all was the glorious sunshine that made the whole grand scene glisten and sparkle like fairyland. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
"It is very wrong of me," she sighs, and her eyes glisten as if washed by still rains under her lashes. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Then he lands in an extremely stable fashion, on four muscular legs that glisten in the spray of the wake. From Wordnik.com. [Waketaurs] Reference
I could see the brass glisten on the tiller as it banged about; and still no soul appeared upon her decks. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The sun shining on it made it glisten like a diamond and a lady who was passing stopped to admire its beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Sandman's Goodnight Stories] Reference
TRYGAEUS See, how their iron spades glitter and how beautifully their three-pronged mattocks glisten in the sun!. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
She sat up and listened for a moment rather anxiously, as if Octave's dark eyes might suddenly glisten in the obscurity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This much I confide in thee: ere many hours have passed, the mighty walls of this great city will glisten with the spears of. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
When they begin to glisten lift them to a hot serving dish and put them where they will keep warm but will not cook any further. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
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