Poor wretch, but late thy locks did brighter glister. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
Eight-grand rings don't force issues, they just sparkle and glister and confuse. From Wordnik.com. [What I cooked last night.] Reference
Greenland, reported that in that country "the stones be altogether sparkled, and glister in the sun like gold.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
The glister of the proffeit that was judged heirof to have ensewed to Scotishmen at the first sight, blynded many menis eyis. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
Instead a sea-bird, attracted by the glister of the morning sun on the buttons of his shirt, wheeled away with a frightened squawk. From Wordnik.com. [The Drawing of the Three]
Her face had the glister of new-washed tears on it. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Feeling] Reference
The palm trees took on the hard glister of metal leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward] Reference
There was a shimmery glister of lightning among the shadowy growth. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891] Reference
Despite the keen wind, a glister of sweat-drops studded his forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
Two others were very remarkable for glister-pouches that dangled at their waist. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
These may shine and glister, while that in the mean time may be noisome and impure. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.] Reference
Below lay the glister of water, real water and no mirage, glassy, gray and sinister. From Wordnik.com. [The Freebooters of the Wilderness] Reference
Here's all the suns that glister in the sphere Of earth: Ah me! what comfort's here?. From Wordnik.com. [Emblems, divine and moral] Reference
The windows showed rich slants of draperies behind their green glister of old glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Yates Pride] Reference
The stones of this supposed continent with America be altogether sparkled, and glister in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference
They seemed to be attracted, just as he was, by that abominable slimy flow and glister of the asphalt. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Fire] Reference
That glister quickly proved itself to be anything but gold and his numbers quickly started falling again. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
In short, they are like fire painted upon an altar; they desire not to be hot, but only to shine and glister. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.] Reference
"PAPE" — to copy at the black board unobserved, either from book or manuscript; a safeguard against "glister". From Wordnik.com. ["Local Phrases," The North Carolina University Magazine 1(April 1852): 128] Reference
Through the trees she caught a glimpse of the red sky of dawn, and the glister of a great lucent, tremulous star. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tennessee mountains,] Reference
"It be a mighty risk I be a-runnin '" -- the old, seamed face was of a deadly pallor and was beginning to glister with a cold sweat. From Wordnik.com. [The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee] Reference
495: Yet through that darksome vale do glister bright. From Wordnik.com. [Colin Clouts Come Home Againe] Reference
Jennifer leaned forward with the look of a prospector who’s just spotted the glister of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Conferences are Murder]
The axe did glister in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [English Songs and Ballads] Reference
To go to heaven without a glister. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
Her large eyes too liquidly glister!. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Sir, at the last I gave her a glister. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
To hold the glister of some lonely star. From Wordnik.com. [The Geste of Duke Jocelyn] Reference
And reddish streaks that wink and glister. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning: How to Know Him] Reference
Deck'd with the ruddy glister of her love. From Wordnik.com. [Tudor and Stuart Love Songs] Reference
Their utmost borders glister all with gold. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II] Reference
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