"Yes," said Miss Slayback, her insouciance gaining with his discomposure, her eyes widening and then a dolly kind of glassiness seeming to set in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

No one has ever remarked upon the glassiness of her eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginary People] Reference

There was only the roiling glassiness of the water itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quozl]

Oddly, the glassiness made them look more alive than usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encounter Group]

Their eyes shine with an ecstatic glassiness that concerns me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Gliatto: Yes, I Am Still Mad at LOST] Reference

The leader bounded to her feet quickly, but there was a dazed glassiness in her eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changeling]

To glide over glassiness while uneventful moments link themselves into hours is monotonous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference

His unhealthy pallor was gone, his eyes had lost their glassiness, his step was firm, his body more elastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

Her skin now began to assume a more natural hue; the eye lost its glassiness, and she could articulate with ease.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference

It showed in the glassiness of the hard blue eyes, the suggestion of bloat in the lower part of the face, the softening around the pouty mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dance at the Slaughterhouse.html]

There was a whiskey smell on him too, but not half as strong, and his gaze was steady and free of the glassiness that showed behind Dancer's squint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoodwink]

I could not say which, for eyes were open and stony, but without the glassiness of death, and the cheeks had the warmth of life through all their pallor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dracula] Reference

It struck him, not for the first time, that people who have been given a sudden fright tend to look alike: a sort of homogeneous glassiness overtakes them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scales of Justice]

As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Haunted House, and other short stories] Reference

I'm almost as upset by the incongruity of its futuristic glassiness surrounding the quaint neighborhood as I am by the utter disappearance of the famous Alamo cube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pen-Elayne on the Web] Reference

Somehow, Brilliant Classics has managed to tame the glassiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

The lustre of inquiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Darkness] Reference

The luster of inquiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Darkness] Reference

Had it been downright misery she would have looked about her with less of her exanimate glassiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

They shone upon her in the dusk with an awful glassiness, as if life's last look had become fixed in death.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference

He appeared to be slightly relieved; but though he smiled, his eyes kept the dull glassiness which gave them an unnatural effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guests Of Hercules] Reference

In one spot the gush of the water violently agitated the sand, but without obscuring the fountain or breaking the glassiness of its surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Told Tales] Reference

I care not how well a woman may dress, if she has taken enough of wine to flush her cheek and put glassiness on her eyes, she is intoxicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Tabernacle Sermons] Reference

The SOTA had a cleaner, more detailed midrange, tighter and more extended bass, and far less harshness or glassiness in the high frequencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stereophile RSS Feed] Reference

Even Teresa Reichlen as Coffee, often one of the company's freshest and most multidimensional dancers, performed with a glassiness I don't recall.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The thought of this old friend caused a cloud of thought to obscure the perfect glassiness of his eyes: He shouldn't wonder if she drank half a bottle!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

But as I looked closer I saw that the wet on the top was beginning to have a curdled look, and that the glassiness of the mill-dam was much diminished.    From Wordnik.com.  [We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys] Reference

His light gray eyes had a glassiness as of long sickness, and his pupils, which were unnaturally dilated, began rapidly to contract; became almost invisible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Claw] Reference

As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror; that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday or Tuesday] Reference

One was of Aline; the other of a heavy, loutish-looking youth, who wore that expression of pained glassiness which Young England always adopts in the face of a camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something New] Reference

The surface of the sea was tranquil even to glassiness; and as the twilight deepened, it began to mirror the millions of twinkling stars gradually thickening in the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference

He feared that his lips and cheeks were twitching, and as he grew aware of a glassiness of aspect that would reflect any suspicion of a keen-eyed woman, he became bolder still!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

There's a certain glassiness you just can't miss. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

However, that same glassiness posed a problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phaze Doubt]

You can see it in the glassiness of the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference