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

I can love, And love as you do too: but 'twill not shew well: Or if it do shew here where all light lustres, Tinsel affections make a glorious glistering, 'Twill halt i'th' handsom way.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject by Beaumont, Francis

Upon it lay a dead man in a suit of rusty iron armor, from the cloven plates of which emerged a-398- living child, naked and gilt with glistering leaf of gold.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington