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 tell you they's a fine sight of a bright day; they has millions of steeples, all white and glistering, like the New Jerusalem, and the white bears have capital times trampin' round on 'em.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

There are trees and trees at Oak Knoll,—smooth and shapely hickories, glistering chestnuts with cool foliage, maples, birches, and the purple beech.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane