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Updated: September 22, 2025
In the midst of the throne, 'thought I, there is his Godhead; in the midst of the elders, there is his manhood; but oh! methought this did glister! it was a goodly touch, and gave me sweet satisfaction.
I'd ruther say the glister of light'd gone to your eyes, and the snap of the air to your tongue. ''Twas me own eyes that beheld it, an' if Sitka Charley was here, he'd be the lad to back me. 'But facts is facts, an' they ain't no gettin' round 'em.
The place is simply comfortable: it appeals to one's sense of propriety. There are carpets and genuine arm-chairs unique phenomena in this part of the world; best of all, fire-places wherein ample logs of olive-wood glimmer and glister all day long. And so the last few days have passed.
"What an exquisite creature!" said the girl. "ISN'T she?" They both faced about, and stood looking at the mare, and the light, shining, open buggy behind her. The sunshine had the after-storm glister; the air was brisk, and the breeze blew balm from the heart of the pine forest. "Miss Breen," he broke out, "I wish you'd take a little dash through the woods with me.
It was not the Wide Awake, but the brig Glister. Did I say Wide Awake? It was the Glister, a smart little brig, almost a toy brig in fact, copper-bottomed, lines like a dolphin, a sea- cutter and a wind-eater. Handled like a top. On my honour, gentlemen, it was lively work for both watches when she went about. I was super- cargo.
It was in the longboat, sixteen of us. We ran on Glister Reef. So named it was after our pretty little craft discovered it one dark night and left her bones upon it. The reef is on the Admiralty charts. Captain Doane will verify me . . . " No one listened, save Dag Daughtry, serving hot cakes and admiring.
Looking up, she beheld the trembling lucid whiteness of a star; now and again the great rustling boughs of an oak-tree swayed beneath it, and then its glister was broken and deflected amidst the crisp autumnal leaves, but still she saw it shine.
"I don't know, I'm sure," said Annie. "I suppose Mrs. Munger." A burst of music came from the dense shadow into which the group of evergreens at the bottom of the tennis-court deepened away from the glister of the electrics. There was a deeper hush; then a slight jarring and scraping of a chair beyond Mrs.
"I should like Muata to be here. It is a good point." "What, sir what?" "A woman's skirt on the dew, lad. See, a man would pass through those two rocks there and leave no mark; but a woman, with the swing of her skirt, wipes a spread of dew off on either side. You can see the dark smudge in the glister of the dewdrops."
For the curbstone was a rocking precipice, and the street below it a grey and shimmering stream, that rolled, and flowed, and rolled, and never rested. The houses, too, were so drunk as to be dangerous. They bowed over him, swaying hideously from their foundations. They seemed to be attracted, just as he was, by that abominable slimy flow and glister of the asphalt.
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