glistering

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Of the 32 class 1 U. S. railroads now undergoing reorganization, none is more disorganized than the New York, New Haven & Hartford, whose securities were once a glistering gilt-edge investment.

From Time Magazine Archive

For listeners who can stay with Hawes's clipped, glistering piano through 16 selections, the set kindles a kind of inner momentum rare to the recording studio.

From Time Magazine Archive

As always, the Tureck style was unhurried, her touch firm and glistering, her phrasing spacious.

From Time Magazine Archive

Merlin and Vivian stopp'd on the slope's brow, To gaze on the light sea of leaf and bough Which glistering plays all round them, lone and mild, As if to itself the quiet forest smiled.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

With that came in a wealthy knight, Which was both grave and old, And after him a finikin lass, Did shine like the glistering gold.

From The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton