Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or into a glimmering state; glimmering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a glimmering state.
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- adjective
Glimmering .Gleaming orshining .
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Examples
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These angry people are not -- contrary to popular condemnation -- bad people, but those who havebeen gifted aglimmer of light upon the treachery and would like to deal with it rightly, set things straight and constitutional again.
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By the light of the instruments, I could see Paulie's eyes aglimmer, fixed out the window at barely visible landscape.
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Durinen stood on the parapet of his tower, draped in silvery robes, his brow aglimmer with emeralds.
Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001
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Stars stood above in their thousands, the galactic frost-bridge, nebulae and sister galaxies aglimmer, but Earth was no more than a blue arc along a wan disc, low above that horizon.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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Edges softened by atmosphere, it was bestrewn with glaciers, long streaks and broad plains and frozen seas bluishly aglimmer from pole to pole.
Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991
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"Spend it wisely-but swiftly, this same night, lest your newly won luck go aglimmer."
The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984
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Balbians had been stately families -- a house always rather dim, its shadows aglimmer with richness, and here and there a beam of light illuminating some flawless, precious object.
Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman
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Below, lay the frost mist, white as foam, diaphanous as a veil, every floating icy particle aglimmer with star rays like spray in sunlight.
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The great circular council-house, shaped like a dome, was whitely aglimmer against the gray twilight and the wintry background of the woods and mountains, -- only the vaguest suggestions of heights seen through the ceaseless whirl of the crystalline flakes.
The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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Reds aglimmer with growing excitement of what’s to be.
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