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    glassy


    1. His eyes got all glassy, and he had a far away look on his face


    2. It in turn heaved forth three smaller, roaring falls, then another thirty feet to the glassy surface of a large, rainbow colored lake


    3. Before he even knew what was happening, a metallic fist caved in his rib-cage and sent him crashing into the glassy canyon wall


    4. Ome floated down the glassy hall, the single, circular orifice on his face hissing as it sucked in air


    5. In front of them the glassy hallway opened into a large, tube shaped chamber


    6. The hot air shimmered across the glassy water


    7. Practically flying over the glassy black floor, she came upon Ostedes


    8. Denalin spread her hands over the glassy panels in front of her


    9. Where the tunnel entrances converged on the great cavern there was a glassy, black smoothness which broke up the irregular, organic look of the cavern walls


    10. The hazel eyes had been impressive but glassy

    11. Herminia’s condition became ever more apparent when she entered with glassy eyes that wouldn’t stay still and speaking a mixture of Spanish, English, and God knows what else at such speed that Beth couldn’t grasp what she was trying to say


    12. They were both sitting on what seemed to be a circular dais with a glassy surface made from a material that only cast the tiniest of reflections and seemed to absorb what little light there was in an uncanny manner


    13. Only Peter and Caleb are, Peter with a large book on his lap, scribbling notes on a nearby notepad, and Caleb reading our mother’s journal on the screen, his eyes glassy


    14. His children and the Blythe lads and lasses were coasting down the eastern slope and whizzing over the glassy pond


    15. As Theobald spoke, a tableau formed before the eyes now glassy, of


    16. His gaze moved out over the glassy water that was scythed by lines


    17. Chandelle could feel the tears welling up in her eyes but these were not tears of sadness but tears of happiness, she got up and walked over to Hamish and threw her arms around him and as she did she noticed his eyes also looked a bit glassy, now be off with you lassie


    18. She later informed me that the fellow looked like he had been on a trip because his eyes were real glassy and he took a long time to understand the directions


    19. already fixed and glassy


    20. There was one more moment to enjoy the coppery colors of her glassy carapace and the rainbow shimmer of her transparent wings

    21. Joshie nodded a glassy eyed assent, held up two fingers, nodded boyishly, and said in a little


    22. The skin of her face was thin and leathery over her skull, and her eyes were glassy white slits, as if the real eyes had been replaced by marbles; she’d been dead a long, long time


    23. His eyes were glassy


    24. Leticia was still lying on the bed with a shock attack, with the perpetrator weapon in the hands and a missed look, and Filomena lying on the carpet with the glassy look and the half-open beak, the only signs showing that life was escaping from her


    25. disappoint him, so I hit the thing again and again, until its eyes went glassy and he told me to


    26. ’ Jurgenz looked across to his superior officer for confirmation, but was faced with a glassy stare of incomprehension


    27. In the corner of the room, a glassy cupboard displayed old silver treasures and well-mended china


    28. There was no light in his eyes that contemplated the glassy swells


    29. Floor, walls and ceiling were of the green glassy stone, the walls decorated with gold frieze-work


    30. It was not soothing to think of hundreds of people lying cold and still throughout the tapestried palaces, their glassy eyes turned unseeingly upward

    31. He strode into the great hall, flanked with tall glassy columns


    32. The Irakzai lay where he had fallen, an ugly blotch on the glassy smoothness


    33. I told him Tiberias had heard the loon call when he rode through the gate on his mule, with his glassy stare


    34. “Arian,” I said and both of them stopped dead in their tracks to stare at me with glassy eyes


    35. But there was no light of intelligence in them; they were blank, glassy, the eyes of an idiot


    36. Conan, glaring at him, felt his blood turn to ice, and the marrow of his bones to water; for Shukeli's wide-open eyes were glassy and empty, and from the great gash in his belly his entrails hung limply to the floor


    37. On his back he lay, with his head drawn back between his shoulders so that he seemed to stare with his wide glassy eyes at the sooty beams of the cobwebbed ceiling


    38. As the helicopter sped effortlessly across the glassy, wine coloured waters of the Strait of Otranto, the hills of Italy were a dusty yellow in the afternoon sun, until the machine banked


    39. The old and glassy eyes stared, unable to comprehend the significance of the


    40. Plastiras looked and saw only two porpoises, jumping and diving playfully in the glassy sea

    41. Paramedics had administered pain-killers and sedatives, but the man had remained awake, his glassy eyes, shocked and remote


    42. He was still wearing his envirosuit, and cradling a heavy, glassy horror in front of him


    43. The deep blue of the Pacific Ocean was below him, and the many clouds above it looked like frost forming on its smooth, glassy surface


    44. Some had scrawled the counter message “Beware the glassy eyed!” on religious posters


    45. Copious amounts of crushed stone disappeared up their noses, until their eyes were red and pupils small and glassy


    46. By then he’d come to and had his glassy eyes


    47. Corey was frothing at the mouth and looked glassy eyed


    48. His eyes went glassy, his tongue stuck out


    49. His eyes were wide and glassy with grief


    50. Schmoozeglutton, as he came upon the first dead car, could see its glassy eyes, the maw of its grilled mouth, and its tough carapace













































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    Synonyms for "glassy"

    glassy glazed vitreous vitrified lustrous burnished translucent finished

    "glassy" definitions

    resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness


    (used of eyes) lacking liveliness


    (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it