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

That night, it seems, fair Sítá spent Arrayed in every ornament, For here and there my eyes behold Small particles of glistering gold.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

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