She was roused by the culprit Abe. He stood beside her with his wet hair streaked into a fringe along his brow. The skin of his neck glistened wet in the opening of his shirt. His cheeks too glistened, but not with the water of the creek. He was crying bitterly. He had no words of explanation or defence. His thick underlip stuck out and gave him the appeal of a penitent dog; the tears had furrowed paler channels down grimy cheeks; he was the very incarnation of uncouth misery. But his mother saw none of these things.英文原著 · 《The Path of the King》
"Perhaps you love your second husband?" . She made no answer and turned her head away. "Or is he very jealous?"
She remained silent. "What then? He is young, handsome and, I suppose, rich -- which is the chief thing -- and you are afraid?" . I glanced at her and was alarmed. Profound despair was depicted upon her countenance; tears were glistening in her eyes. "Tell me," she whispered at length, "do you find it very amusing to torture me?英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
This was thrilling, indeed--but there was more; the strange knight's body was cased in a flexible suit of glistening mail, his spear point, when he raised it on high, shone like silver, and he came on like a radiant star--on the Hon. Sam's charger, white-bridled, with long mane and tail and black from tip of nose to tip of that tail as midnight. The Hon. Sam was certainly doing it well. At a slow walk the stranger drew alongside of Marston and turned his spear point downward.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
"Cette, with its glistening houses white, Curves with the curving beach away To where the lighthouse beacons bright, Far in the bay."英文原著 · 《A Little Tour In France》
It a female. The fur on her belly and flanks glistening white; many small marks like velvet formed beautiful bracelets round her feet; her sinuous tail also white, ending with black rings; the overpart of her dress, yellow like burnished gold, very lissome and soft, had the characteristic blotches in the form of rosettes, which distinguish the panther from every other feline species.英文原著 · 《A Passion in the Desert》