I could see the girl, Elinor, walking the wall, as she did often at this hour, looking over the reeds and the glistening water.

Long ribbons of glistening water slicked the near-vertical face.

"We had the freedom here," said Mr. Karen, peering at the glistening water from under a baseball cap.

But this December, there will be no oasis because the agents drank all the glistening water last winter and plundered the lush land.

"But then I walked out onto the veranda and looked at a sailboat on the glistening water and - well, that was it."

Barney looked up, first at Raisin, and then off over the glistening black water.

But Willow ran out of the lake, dripping glistening water, waving his forelegs in the air.

Leaning back against a boulder he stared out over the glistening water.

"Under the silvery moon, across the glistening water, they witnessed a fantastic sight," Thomas writes.

And then the flood rushed upon him and he was submerged, vanishing under the dark, glistening water.