She was singing, still lost in pleasure, and Craer saw shimmering scales grow all over her magnificent body as she soared across the chamber.

The figure of Jacque's father dissolved, then rose again as a python-sized serpent, covered with shimmering golden scales.

From the living room he heard Charlie Parker run down a shimmering scale.

In the midst of the great hall stood a black stone altar, massive, somber, without carvings or ornament, and upon it coiled one of the great sacred serpents, its iridescent scales shimmering in the lamplight.

The surface boiled in a welter of cascading water, shimmering scales and ragged far, the whole scene streaked with blood.

They are small (8 cm), deep-bodied, with rainbow-coloured, shimmering scales.

The eyes of mantis shrimp may recognize different types of coral, prey species (which are often transparent or semi-transparent), or predators, such as barracuda, which have shimmering scales.

What I thought I saw, off to my left, a few yards away, was a giant ebony snake, maybe three feet in diameter, coiled around a tree, scales shimmering in the semidarkness.

There was a planet of a bluish sun, a jungle world where worms of titanic size oozed through steaming mud, where towering creatures with shimmering scales thundered over the fallen hulks of trees a thousand feet high.

It spouted a column of shimmering scales that started in midair, about where it had floated originally, and lifted its fac- eted head (body?