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

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

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

Do thou me off thy satin doublet, Thy shirtband wrought with glistering gold, And do me off thy golden chain About thy neck so many a fold.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Small solace did they take From that frore radiance glistering on the dull Black desert gripped in iron silences, Like a false triumph o'er contestless fates, Or a mirage of life in wastes of Death.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton