The only room vacant for her was a cell that had been occupied by a sister who had died a short time previously, a sister of a devout turn of mind, who had assisted her meditations by the contemplation of a skull of unusual size and shininess.
"My Little Lady"
Eleanor Frances Poynter
With a shriek that tore a jagged rent through the darkness Mrs. Jett began pounding at the slippery flanks, her hands sliding off its shininess.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
There's none of the spotless shininess of Holland or the beautiful cattle there; but agriculture is developed to the nth degree for all that.
"The Old Gray Homestead"
Frances Parkinson Keyes