What is "glistening"

Usage examples of "glistening".

From the two parts emerged a tiny creature, not much bigger than Menolly's hand, glistening brown and creeling with hunger, swaying its head back and forth and tottering forward a few awkward steps.

Abruptly the vegetation disappeared and a huge pit opened below them, glistening in the rain.

Women in jewels and glistening gowns, men in formal Court dress, ribbons streaming from one knee.

Kaltia said, her unusual yellow eyes, legacy of her Capellan father, glistening like miniature suns.

She leaned conspiratorially close to Sean, her eyes glistening with eagerness in the lamplight.

Caves, glistening lakes of free water, horned animals, sleek water beasts-you know, the usual.

Carefully he extended his wet glistening wings, holding them aloft in the slight breeze while Sean, with Sorka’s help, mopped his underparts dry.

Below lay the bony plains of eastern Crom, glistening in patches and streaks that suggested there had been frost or a heavy dew.

The hum increased in volume as the shell shattered into fragments and the golden, glistening body of the new female emerged.

The three dragons made nests in the still warm sands above the high-tide lines, their eyes glistening like jewels in the dark beyond the firelight.

They were all young, as F'lar had recommended, almost equal in size as they waited, never taking their glistening eyes from the object of their interest.

He allowed them time to sight the Barrier Range, glistening in the sun, ragged white teeth on the horizon.

How they managed to fly with their glistening wings so close together, Menolly didn't know.

They hummed with delight at the attention, and when she had finished each one, the creature would stroke her cheek with its small triangular head, the glistening eyes sparkling with brilliant colors.

The queen dragonet turned her head towards Brekke, the glistening eyes enormous in the outsize skull.