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Glitter   /glˈɪtər/   Listen
noun
Glitter  n.  A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.


verb
Glitter  v. i.  (past & past part. glittered; pres. part. glittering)  
1.
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. "The field yet glitters with the pomp of war."
2.
To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.
Synonyms: To gleam; to glisten; to shine; to sparkle; to glare. See Gleam, Flash.





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"Glitter" Quotes from Famous Books



... She began to fear death. Without knowing how Philippe might manage to kill her, she felt certain that whenever he suspected her of pregnancy her doom would be sealed. The sound of that voice, the veiled glitter of that gambler's eye, the slightest movement of the soldier, who treated her with a brutality that was still polite, made her shudder. As to the power of attorney demanded by the ferocious colonel, who in the eyes of all Issoudun ...
— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... was absolutely impossible. Such things did not happen, even in this world of strange happenings and of stranger stirrings below the surface of actual happenings. His self-complacencies came shattering down about his ears like mountains of senseless glitter, and he stooped to recover the object which was lying upon, almost ready to tumble from, the rounded, neat edge of ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... something into her hand. The widow opened it instinctively; I saw two sovereigns glitter on her palm. She dropped a tear upon the money, and turned round to thank her benefactor, but he had already resumed his seat upon the coach. She cast towards him an eloquent and grateful look, pressed ...
— Catharine's Peril, or The Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest - And Other Stories • M. E. Bewsher
... rents in the side of Chimborazo in which Vesuvius could be put away out of sight. As you look down into the fathomless fissure, you see a white fleck rising out of the gulf, and expanding as it mounts, till the wings of the condor, fifteen feet in spread, glitter in the sun as the proud bird fearlessly wheels over the dizzy chasm, and then, ascending above your head, sails over the dome of Chimborazo.[71] Could the condor speak, what a glowing description could he give of the landscape beneath ...
— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton
... with lineaments Of earth, the phantom throng That swept before my sight in thought, And lived in storied song. Vain, vain the dream;—as well might I Aspire to light a star, Or pile the gorgeous sunset-clouds That glitter from afar." ...
— Indian Legends and Other Poems • Mary Gardiner Horsford


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