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GLITTERING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
Example:
'glistering' is an archaic term
Synonyms:
aglitter; coruscant; fulgid; glinting; glistering; glittering; glittery; scintillant; scintillating; sparkly
Classified under:
Similar:
bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb glitter
Context examples:
When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But her affectionate nature was so happy in what I now said to her with my whole heart, that her face became a laughing one before her glittering eyes were dry.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left in sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
With this friendly new moon, hold on to that dream, for with your glittering star power trained on your personal life, anything is possible now.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Then they came to another grove of trees, where all the leaves were of gold; and afterwards to a third, where the leaves were all glittering diamonds.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
What business had I to approach the white door or touch the glittering knocker?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Their icy and glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I associated that instrument with the single weakness of his nature, and I feared the worst when I saw it glittering in his hand.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Line after line, and rank after rank, they choked the neck of the valley with a long vista of tossing pennons, twinkling lances, waving plumes and streaming banderoles, while the curvets and gambades of the chargers lent a constant motion and shimmer to the glittering, many-colored mass.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When it was almost dark, he lay down on a sofa, Agnes pillowing his head and bending over him a little while; and when she came back to the window, it was not so dark but I could see tears glittering in her eyes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
