brightly-glistening

Updated: June 22, 2025

But once more the creation of human hands conquers the spectre, and, puffing and whistling, the locomotive breaks through the dark haze. Once again the iron serpent disappears into the bowels of the rock, and as it emerges it crosses another valley and is greeted by a clear heaven and a multitude of brightly-glistening stars. We are on the Rossberg. A devastated tract of the globe it seems.

Mór Jókai - Dr. Dumany's Wife