The familiar pine-clad mountain scene with pristine snow-capped peaks and shimmering streams is not just an image reserved for biscuit boxes.

A swan glides on a shimmering stream, where there had been only water.

On a muggy late-spring day, he took his ecology class to the Eno River, a shimmering stream in the piney woods nearby.

"The wonderful estate lay among wooded hills, intersected by rivers and shimmering streams," he wrote.

"The wonderful estate lay among wooded hills, intersected by rivers and shimmering streams," Sibelius wrote 80 years ago.

Desire rippled like a shimmering golden stream through her, into him.

He wandered away from me, stared out into the shimmering stream.

It looked as if a stream of water, shimmering and gleaming, had forked around the massive trunk of the tree.

The windows were made opaque by shimmering streams of rain.

The reflector plates cast a shimmering stream of brightness along its eastern face.