glisten
verb (used without object)
to reflect a sparkling light or a faint intermittent glow; shine lustrously.
had glistened
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past perfectof glisten.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Not a cloud had yet scarred the heavens, not a dewdrop had glistened in the morning sunlight.
From Winning the Wilderness by J. N. Marchand
Her face burned, and seemed to dry up the tears which had glistened, but did not fall.
From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
They had glistened as if burnished by the fires of fever.
From The Hollow of Her Hand by George Barr McCutcheon
Were I a king,—which isn't To be considered now,— A diadem had glistened Upon that lovely brow.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Below the crater, the ice-fields that had glistened in unbroken whiteness the previous day were now furrowed with wide black streaks, from which the vapor of melting snow and burning lava ascended in dense wreaths.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch
