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 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.

The golden tippet, as I wear it, curves and shimmers.

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.

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.

Nearer by, the picturesque rocky shores of the island of Capri seem to pulsate through the dreamy, shifting mists that veil its sides; and the sea shimmers and glitters like the neck of a peacock with an iridescent mingling of colors: the whole air is a glorifying medium, rich in prismatic hues of enchantment.

The crescent moon have you seen, As it shimmers on apricots gleaming, Through velvety masses of green. Have you seen, in a June-tide nooning, A languorous full-blown rose In the arms of the lilies swooning And yielding her sweets to her foes?

The blue sky looks out, the sun shimmers white for five minutes.

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.

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

According to English ideas, a deep affection, through whose clear mirror the gold of the old love shimmers visibly, should be the fulfilment of marriage.

Prattling, the river lisps of love and of repose And in the distance shimmers, faintly dies; A flower, secret listening as its message flows, A roguish kiss of gratitude in fragrance blows, While beckoning stars smile from the silent skies.

Even so may the mailed figures in some ancestral hall start into life at the stroke of midnight, and hold high revel with the fair dames and damsels from out the gilt frames upon the walls, content to range themselves once more and pose in their former attitudes as soon as the first grey light of morning shimmers through the mullioned windows.

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.

The livelong night they ford the flood; With guns held high they silent press, Till shimmers the grass in their bayonets' sheen On Morning's banks their ranks they dress; Then by the forests lightly wind, Whose waving boughs the pennons seem to bless, Borne by the cavalry scouting on Sounding the Wilderness.

I gaze into the vaulted blue And on the em'rald fields below; The genial sunlight shimmers down Upon the mountain's rugged crown, The eye sweeps round the horizon Until its utmost verge is won.

A flowering dogwood bathed in its ethereal light shimmers like a bridal veil adorning a wood nymph.