"Glister" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play— A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair; When I, (whom sullen care, Through discontent of my long fruitless stay In princes' court, and expectation vain Of idle hopes, which still do fly away Like empty shadows, did afflict my brain) Walk'd forth ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... still, my souldier of S. Quintins: come, follow me; I have Charles waine below in a but of sack, t'will glister like ...
— The Merry Devil • William Shakespeare
... and crab-grass; the sky was slate-colored, and from its sad tint this white splendor gained added values of contrast. When the sun should shine abroad much of the effect would be lost in the too dazzling glister; but the sun did ...
— The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... the threatner, and out-face the brow Of bragging horror: So shall inferior eyes That borrow their behauiours from the great, Grow great by your example, and put on The dauntlesse spirit of resolution. Away, and glister like the god of warre When he intendeth to become the field: Shew boldnesse and aspiring confidence: What, shall they seeke the Lion in his denne, And fright him there? and make him tremble there? Oh let it not be said: ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... river girds the city west and south, The main north channel of a broad lagoon, Regurging with the salt tides from the mouth; Waste marshes shine and glister to the moon 25 For leagues, then moorland black, then stony ridges; Great piers and causeways, many noble bridges, Connect the town and ...
— The City of Dreadful Night • James Thomson
... say of those poor men that are plagued with the pox and the gout? O how often have we seen them, even immediately after they were anointed and thoroughly greased, till their faces did glister like the keyhole of a powdering tub, their teeth dance like the jacks of a pair of little organs or virginals when they are played upon, and that they foamed from their very throats like a boar which the mongrel mastiff-hounds have driven in and overthrown amongst ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... glister, Each eye was like a star, She did surpass her sister, Which pass'd all others far; She would me honey call, She'd, oh—she'd kiss me too: But now, alas! she's ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various |
