What is "glister"

Usage examples of "glister".

Beyond me, I could see the glistering walls of a huge and camerated natural vault.

Yet notwithstanding my eyes would now and then with much adoo, bee withdrawne to beholde the bewtie of the Iewels and precious stones, sparkeling and glistering in euerie place, in such diuersities of straunge and vnseene gloriousnes and conspicuous decoraments, as if they had all ought a duetie to her, which made mee with an immoderate desire, to behold the correspondency of her excellent bewtie.

Nith Immmon gave a little chuckle in which rows of very sharp yellow teeth glistered in the fusion lamplight.

Wildly lurid and inaccurate versions of how he had wrecked Circum Central, doomed the planet Glister, and then vanished, still circulated.

Admiral Anton Koffield, victor of the battle of Circum Central, the supposed scourge of the Glister system.

He was a Glistern, raised in the belief that Anton Koffield had personally destroyed his world by wrecking Circum Central and thus preventing five rescue ships from getting to Glister.

Without Circum Central, transit to Glister took long enough to be near the safety limit for cryo duration.

Isolated streams of sunshine illuminated the newly watered Victorian buildings of the Haight, giving the faded hippiedom of the shops and cafes a new glister.

Norla glanced to the display for Solace in time to see the corresponding upticks in population as the Glister refugees arrived there.

So forth he came all in a cote of plate,Burnisht with bloudie rust, whiles on the greeneThe Briton Prince him readie did awayte,In glistering armes right goodly well beseene,That shone as bright, as doth the heauen sheene.

Beside it hovered a pair of spectral dodecahedra, like the omnivorous Phage artifacts that she had encountered on Glister.

We might have been in a Fourth of July extravaganza, suspended from a hot air balloon, with barrages of rockets bursting around us, whiz-bangs and cracker bonbons and fountains and fizgigs, but all silent, all marvelous glistering light and no bang, yet so reminiscent of Independence Day displays that you could almost smell the saltpeter and the sulfur and the charcoal, almost hear a stirring John Philip Sousa march, almost taste hot dogs with mustard and chopped onions.

Her pickled green froes breath crawled their flesh in pimples as she sang softly, mewing, humming, glistering her babes, her boys, her friends of the slick snail-tracked roof, the straight-flung arrow, the stricken and sky-drowned balloon.

For a long instant she thought she fell upward from on a rocky height into a dizziness of open sky where points of light glistered, thick as salt.

Fat twin chrome tailpipes glistered like liquid mercury in the fierce desert sun.