Word: glitteringly
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...boom has none of the bawdy, big-spending glitter of oilfields of a bygone era. The basin's chief invaders are the drilling crews, who brought their families and live in the trailer cities that dot the crossroads (see NEWS IN PICTURES). Hotel lobbies and restaurants hum with brokers hawking leases and mineral rights, but there is little oldtime roistering...
...rising and takes an icy shower immediately afterward. At his mess, grace is said before each meal. He insists that his shoes be coated with a combination of vaseline and boot polish at night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes by his desk; few insects have profaned...
...luxury of cabin class, but he atoned for this by asking "if he could have his meals with the crew." In New York (for the production of Within the Gates'), he landed in a world of "walnut and mahogany reflecting the gleam of glass and the glitter of silver," a world more "fit for Arnold Bennett. . . than . . . Walt Whitman." At which point the reader suspects that it fit O'Casey like a glove...
...four and his mother had just died. He and his elder sister stood by a window at night looking at the stars. She explained what the stars were. No, he told her, she didn't understand: the lights in the sky were really holes in heaven. The glitter was caused by angels shining through, and out of one of those bright holes, their mother was watching them...
...beds of Amazon River tributaries in remotest Amapá territory, the glitter of gold has set off periodic rushes since 1893. Early in June a ragged, unshaven prospector stomped into a river village with word of the latest strike. To pay for medicine, food and tools, he had a poke of alluvial nuggets, which he had found in a branch of the Jari River...