The second cube came back unchanged, except that it was newer, shinier.
"Hall of Mirrors"
Fredric Brown
And as for Nelson-who's now sailing shinier seas than ours, if they've rubbed Her off his slate where he's gone to,-the French papers say that our loss in him is greater than our gain in ships; so that logically the victory is theirs.
"The Dynasts An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes"
Thomas Hardy
Under a very powerful magnifying-glass the surface is seen to be strewn with very tiny points which are slightly raised and shinier than the surface.
"The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles"
Jean Henri Fabre