A tiny Christmas tree stood on a table in a corner, glistening with lights and multicoloured paper festoons.
But from a distance he could see that they were full of tempting things--paper and pens and pencils, red bars of sealing wax, glue-pots and rulers and glistening shears.
In the centre stood the Christmas layer cake, its body four inches thick and its top glistening with red and yellow and green pieces of candied fruit.
The canoe glided closely along, where they could look down into the clear depths of the water, and discover the pebbles glistening upon the bottom.
If there be any thing that has nigh fotched this ould shiner to his marrowbones it was to see something glistening in her eyes," said the Irishman, as he wiped his own.
The gulls wailed as they swept here and there over the glistening sea, and the golden-red and brown weed washed to and fro among the rocks.
For there, at the foot of a glistening curve of water which seemed to leap from amidst a pile of black rocks, stood Tavish, bending forward.
They had gazed down through the water at the waving tangle, and watched the shoals of glistening young fish.
He sat perched on a high bay horse, and held on to the bridle of a spirited black palfrey, the hides of both glistening from a long run.
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.
So the days went on, and the great Cape Horn greybeards rolled up with glistening flanks and white crests that broke and poured down them in thunder.
Clennam said--not very plainly, seeing those tears glistening in her anxious eyes--that her wish should be sacred with him.
The boat, which was a very showily painted one, evidently quite new, was deeply laden, and in one place a part of a glistening black tarpaulin trailed in the water.
There was the glistening of the polished iron and brass, the twinkling of the well-oiled portions, the huge roll of paper began to turn, and I saw its virgin whiteness stamped directly after with thousands of lines of language.
Ahead of us a flying shape, hair lank and glistening in the downpour, followed a faint path skirting that green tongue of morass which we had noted from the upland.
Thrusting my way up the stairs, I wrenched the stick from the hand of the dacoit--for in this glistening brown man, I recognized one of that deadly brotherhood who hailed Dr.
On the contrary he had purchased the best there was to be had and as the coils of copper wire, glistening wire rope, and spotless porcelain insulators were unpacked Bob's eyes sparkled with anticipation.
As for the yacht, with its trimmings of glistening brass and spotless decks, had he not dreamed of going aboard it ever since the day it had first steamed into the bay two summers ago?
The faint, white outlines of the Apennines shone brilliant and glistening in the evening glow.
In the centre a fountain threw up sprays of perfumed water, its basin bordered with glistening shells from India and the Archipelago.
As on a second Olympus the marble palaces of the Caesars towered on the summit of the Capitoline hill, glisteningwhite in the ghostly moonlight.
He paused and surveyed the mound of coal glistening in the misty starlight.
Although the dressing operation was a painful one, Grouser Joliffe never uttered a sound, although Malcolm could see beads of perspiration glistening on the rifleman's wrinkled forehead.
Both wore masks and fur caps with the flaps pulled down, so that I could see nothing of their faces save the glistening of the eyes through the eye-slits.
Tommy slid carefully over a glistening ledge and dropped his height to a broad foothold.
He rested one arm lightly on her body, and poured her bright hair again and again from his hand in glistening waves.
He caressed La Bijou like it were a horse, for so he had christened the glistening Peterborough canoe.
Nowhere is there a gayer, livelier colouring to be seen on the Riviera; this in spite of the conventionality of the glistening walls of the great hotels and the artificial gardens with which the vicinity of the paradise of Monte Carlo abounds.
The waiting-room became filled with uniforms, glistening faintly in the morning light; brief sentences were exchanged in a low voice.
At this moment the last carriages were driving away in the fore-court of the Imperial; the staring crowd, behind the grenadiers, peeped curiously at the pretty ladies glistening through the glass of the state-coaches.
His face, grey with morphia and glistening like wet clay with the odious sweat that follows on an exhausted dose, looked more deathly than a corpse's clear, waxen mask.
A serene level light lay upon the glistening grass--the "clear shining after rain.
There was more than her usual almost insolent cock-sureness in the way that she twisted up her ruddy mane again, holding the amber hairpins between her strong, glistening teeth as she did so, and looking down in that veiled, secretive way.
In the centre stands an isolated altar surmounted by a sun glistening with gold and precious stones, and supported by the sacred tortoise.
Leon acceded to his wishes, and both remained behind; and at the moment when they entered one of the huts, Leon saw something glistening on the ground, which he fancied was a precious stone.
The moon was descending on the horizon, the stars were glisteningin the heavens, and Leon, whose eyes were closed by fatigue, was on the point of falling asleep, when a strange and unexpected sound made him start.
Two or three leagues farther, however, the houses of Talca could be seen on the horizon glistening in the sun.
Solent, glistening in the sunshine of a beautiful May day.
The night was lovely, the clear, bright moon threw a silvery light athwart the face of the deep glistening waters, as our ship dashed onwards, reaching Kingstown at 10 a.
The driver was a musical fellow, and endeavored to sing a Russian ballad while we were galloping over the glistening snow.
To-day I shudder as I think of that surging mass of gray forms with eyes glistening like fireballs, and the serrated jaws that opened as if certain of a feast.
The last objects I saw behind me were the walls, domes, and turrets of this monastery glistening in the afternoon sunlight.
They were anchored across the bay now, their round sterns glistening against the water as the afternoon light caught the gilding on their high, narrow after-structure.
His dark eyes were glistening as he pointed toward the entry to the harbor, a wide strait that lay between the Point of the Cayo de Carena and the mainland.
Her old babalawo had come back: there was the same glistening black skin, the same three face- marks cut down his cheek, the powerful eyes she had somehow forgotten over the years.
Lightning flashed once more, glistening off the row of cannon on the English warship.
Morris reached into Briggs' belt and deftly extracted the long flintlock, its gilded stock glistening in the candlelight.
He appeared to be in his early twenties and was attired lavishly--a plumed hat topped his long curls, his long velvet waistcoat was parted rakishly to display an immaculate white cravat, and high, glistening boots shaped his calves.
His dark brown hat rested next to him on the table, its white plume glistening in the dull light.
The wound in his shoulder was open now, sending a trickle of blood glistening across his chest.
Canninge smiled and pointed toward a small gun at the end of the row, its dark brass glistening in the early light.
Following after him was Atiba, wearing a pair of ill-fitting seaman's breeches, his bare shoulders glistening in the sun's early glow.
His voice trembled, and glistening droplets of sweat had begun to bead on his smooth forehead.
Now the men stirred impatiently on the decks, new flintlocks glistening in the moonlight, anxious for their first feel of Spanish gold.
Her face was radiant, self-assured as she moved through the dim torchlight in a glistening skirt and full sleeves.
Winston moved slowly back toward the main deck, studying the first Yoruba more carefully now--the glistening skin that seemed to stretch over ripples of muscle.
Among the miners upon whom he had to attend he found brawny Tom Evert, stripped to the waist, lying on his side, and working above his head, but bringing down the coal in glistening showers with each sturdy blow of his pick.
Now the brave fellows in the heading knew what they were working for, and the blows of their picks fell faster and harder than ever on the glistening wall that still opposed its black front to them.
They passed through a door in a fair state of preservation, but fairly covered with the pure white fungus growth of glistening frost-like sprays, which in the mine are called "water crystals.
There was, indeed, and had been for a long time, a glistening drop at the end of it.
A glistening white arm is raised menacingly toward the bridge.
Alkmene crept from under the king's chair muffing with her long, delicate nose, the glistening pieces of glass, and the footman bent himself to carefully pick them up.
The prince seized another roll, and another still, till she was flooded with the glistening pieces.
