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Glint

noun

A momentary flash of light. Synonyms: flicker, spark.

A spatially localized brightness.

verb

(past & past part. glinted; pres. part. glinting)

Be shiny, as if wet. Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine.

Throw a glance at; take a brief look at. Synonyms: glance, peek. "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"

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"Glint" Quotes from Famous Books

... hand-coverings, while giggling girls played vivacious seconds to their lead upon the strident string of coquetry. Carter would have retreated, but he had gone too far. Masie confronted him behind her counter with a questioning look in eyes as coldly, beautifully, warmly blue as the glint of summer sunshine on an iceberg drifting ...

— The Voice of the City • O. Henry

... her eyes, trying to catch what was in her mind, but there was a bewildering glamour playing across those gray, opal-tinted wells of mystery, from which he could draw only a mischievous smile-glint, ...

— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson

... serious people are amused! Perhaps I am a serious person. The least thing amuses me. By the way, is Mademoiselle Jeanne fair or dark? Let me try to recollect. Why, fair, of course. I remember the glint of gold in the little curls about her temples, as she stood by the lamp. A pleasant face, too; not exactly classic, but rosy and frank; and then she has that animation which so many pretty ...

— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin

... a little jungle rainpool. At the base of the miniature precipice of the gorge, this pool was a thing of clay. It was milky in consistence, from the roiling of suspended clay; and when the surface caught a glint of light and reflected it, only the clay and mud walls about came to the eye. It was a very regular pool, a man's height in diameter, and, for all I knew, from two inches to two miles deep. I became absorbed ...

— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe

... into the night, and Peter Doane was the first to leave, but after his departure Sim Squires permitted a glint of deep anxiety to show in ...

— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck

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