Outdoors the sun beat fiercely upon the heads of toiling men and horses while the heat waves danced with a dazzling shimmer along the brick pavements.

As she travelled deeper and deeper, it was a wonder to see how far that little ray penetrated down and down through gulfs of darkness, blue and cold like the shimmer of a diamond, and even when it could be seen no more, sent yet a shadowy refraction, a line of something less black than the darkness, a lightening amid the gloom, a something indefinable which was hope.

The rising sun behind the mountains threw long slant rays across into the bare tree tops, so that the shimmer of it dappled horse and man.

The world around them, in the soft shimmer of the crescent moon, became an enchanted region, the land that never was on earth or sea, the land of love, in which all that dwell therein move in the glamour of the sacred Fire of Love.

The delicate purple bells of the vine upon the trellis stirred in the evening breeze, making a shimmer of perfume and color about her, like a suggestion of an aureole; and in the arbor, as in one of those homely shrines which everywhere make part of the Venetian life, she seemed aloof as some ideal of an earlier Christian age from the restless, voluble group upon the tiny quay.

"See I not, there, a white shimmer? Something with pale silken shrine?

At last it rested on the water, and there was a shimmer where the wood frame had set ripples moving.

The pale ceiling lightened; and with a sliding shimmer of polished curves the furniture rose up from the walls.

I have not said that Marguerite was this, before, because, until brought into contrast with her mother, her extreme loveliness was too little positive to be felt; now it was the evanescent shimmer of pearl to the deep perpetual fire of the carbuncle.

Shimmer in the meteor's gleam, Sylphide!

It was a wild basin, within a group of the lesser hills close by; full of little feathery birches, that twinkled and played in the light breeze and gorgeous sunshine slanting in upon them between the slopes that lay in shadow above,slopes clothed with ranks of dark pines and cedars and hemlocks, looking down seriously, yet with a sort of protecting tenderness, upon the shimmer and frolic they seemed to have climbed up out of.

Again, he looked up at the man's face, braced for the retort his challenge had laid him open to, and once more the expression he saw therea thing as momentary as a shimmer of summer lightning,told him more than anything within the resources of rhetoric could have effected.

The portion covering the hyaline cartilage of the navicular bone has lost its peculiar pearl-blue shimmer, and become a dirty yellow.

Then, wheeling outwards, disclosing as they wheeled the insignia that each bore, the eagles of Germany, the lilies of France and the rest, the guard of thirty giants fell once more into line, half a mile apart, as those that followed came on, and waited; beating the air with the shimmer of their netted wings.

The country bore some resemblance to the country west of Redjaf on the White Nile, the home of the giant eland; only here there was no big game, no chance of seeing the towering form of the giraffe, the black bulk of elephant or buffalo, the herds of straw-colored hartebeests, or the ghostly shimmer of the sun glinting on the coats of roan and eland as they vanished silently in the gray sea of withered scrub.

There was a huge curtained bed, and the fireplace at its foot had a large white mantel with something of the shimmer of marble.

At last, something like dim veils of whiteness began to draw and shimmer on the eastern skylinethe vague glare of the sun-crisped Sahara flinging its furnace ardor to the sky.

The sea wind struck them with hot intensity; the sun, now almost down, flung its river of blood from ship to horizon, all dancing in a shimmer of heat.

A faint, far outcry of passionate voices drifted upward in the heat and shimmer of that Arabian afternoon.

The heat-shimmer of that baked land of bare-ribbed rock and naked, igneous hills had already begun to blur its outlines.

The aureate shimmer on the sky kept steadily increasing, from a point somewhat to the left of Nissr's line of flight.

Now, off at the left, behind the shimmer of the wondrous sight that seemed a fantastic city of dreams, long black cliffs had become visiblesurely some spur of the Iron Mountains, making to southward at the eastern edge of the plain.

But most wonderful of all was the metallic shimmer of those walls, domes, minarets, under the high sun of this lost Arabian paradise.

And the shimmer of those golden walls, one mile to east of her, painted her all a strangely luminous yellow.

Far below us the ocean and the bay shimmer like a mirror, and majestic ocean liners, outward bound, look like toy boats.