How To Use Glinting In A Sentence
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He saw something glinting in the streetlight, and went over to investigate.
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The sun was a pale circle in the white sky, glinting dully on the frosty grass.
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As it was, his expression hardened, the catlike sharpness of his pupils glinting dangerously.
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Caliban hit him then, leaping out of the shadowed recesses under the next terrace up, long arms and longer legs wide and grasping, teeth glinting in earthlight.
Ilium
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The tallest of the three had his jaws set hard, his green eyes glinting angrily.
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We need to picture a bright summer sun glinting off all the gold medals our athletes have won.
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Mia looked so beautiful in her lavender dress, her hair slightly curled in long tousles, the beaded earrings glinting in the setting sun.
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Her husband replied, his piggish eyes glinting.
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What was that, glinting in the sunlight?
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Down La Canebière I stroll, heading for the glinting, faraway turquoise eyespot of the Old Port, following women dressed in ankle-length raincoats and Islamic head scarves, long-faced men in frayed djellabas and knit skullcaps, gangly youths with scruffy beards.
Sunstroked
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He turned around, his metallic green tights glinting in the sunlight, his open vest with vines stitched on only one side.
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The building. although still basically ugly, looked nicer with the late April sun glinting on the old stonework.
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What was that, glinting in the sunlight?
Times, Sunday Times
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Far below, beneath shreds of glistening cloud, York is laid out like a map: the Ouse glinting in the sun, the Minster rearing above the clutter of buildings around its feet.
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On our visit the restaurant was decked out for the festive season, with myriad glinting fairy lights and the obligatory sprinkling of canned snow around the windows.
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When next he spoke, his voice was tight with hostility, and his teeth were glinting in the darkness.
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She thought the diamond was lost until she saw something glinting on the carpet.
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Oversized silver hoops dangled from her ears, glinting softly in the light from the Corvette.
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The pye-dog, its diseased hindquarters shaking, the crewman, his stainless steel cleaver glinting, closed on each other.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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When she opened her eyes, Rick loomed over her, his eyes glinting angrily.
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And there was poor old Flashy, caught behind the companies of the 24th as they poured their volley-firing into the "chest" of the Zulu army, cheering and shouting for the ammunition-carriers, and Durnford 's bald forehead glinting in the sun above his splendid whiskers as he pulled his men back to the donga and blazed away at the left "horn" sweeping in towards them.
Watershed
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Yonder, behind the forests, he heard strange sounds; then glinting through the trees he saw, far, far away, the bronzed hosts of a nation calling, calling faintly, calling loudly.
XII. Of Alexander Crummell.
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His gold ring was glinting in the sunlight.
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We need to picture a bright summer sun glinting off all the gold medals our athletes have won.
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He also comments, showing the novel's glinting humor, that an opposing team's warm-up drills are "as crisp as Petrarchan sonnets.
Call Me Safe, Ishmael
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With the winter light glinting off the polished edges of the cylinder cooling fins, it's got the gleam of advanced weaponry.
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, he maintains, with the first cock crow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures.
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Instead of gold-glinting scales and sleek wingless bodies, these draconians were brassy and bewinged.
The Dragons at War
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The jar was packed to the brim with gold, a mass of coin glinting under the light.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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A small callus covered the third finger of the lady's finger, and nails oddly unkept stretched out a bit, glinting in the sun's rays.
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He could see the walled orchard, the sun glinting on the topmost leaves of the apple trees.
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We can imagine Harald, then 51, towering over the battlefield, fighting the English to the last, outnumbered and underequipped, his giant battleaxe glinting with the spilled blood of his enemies.
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Michael stared at the tie pin glinting up from the red velvet lining.
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Then came the trend for deepening shades of grey, until smart kitchens turned into charcoal backdrops for glinting brassware.
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She passed the tree where the horse's tack was propped and grabbed Hawk's bridle, the silverwork glinting in the moonlight.
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That's why the killer bounce-and-rebound in Mario is a thousand times more satisfying than bottom-stomping baddies in a dozen other platformers, and why slicing enemies into chunks in Ninja Gaiden, screaming down out of the sky, dragon sword glinting in the neon and cherry blossom, is just more effective and exhilarating than chopping up chumps in other fighting games.
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His face was inches from hers, his icy grey eyes glinting with mockery.
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From that terracing came a continual glinting of points of light as innumerable cigarettes were lit.
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The staples that hold them in place also line their edges, serving as glinting ornament, while the rows of punched-out holes have a bead-like quality.
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The last rays of sun are glinting on a sea as flat as a bowl of olive oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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The screen dissolves to a shot of Hitler on a podium as a battalion of men, glinting spades on their shoulders, march past in powdery sunlight.
Excerpt: The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
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Occasionally she fancied she could see a sudden bright flash that might be a laser cannon glinting off a rock.
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She thought the diamond was lost until she saw something glinting on the carpet.
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He remembered clearly looking back at the stars, glinting at him across a million light years of the universe.
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She thought the diamond was lost until she saw something glinting on the carpet.
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He smiled maliciously, his blue eyes glinting with something akin to lust.
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The breeze was soft, but bracingly cool, and the deep blue of the sky was checkered with a high cirrocumulus web, glinting golden and magenta in the glancing sunlight.
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Glinting in the pinkish sunlight, the aircraft taxied slowly across the busy airport and took off on schedule 25 minutes later.
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Around the clearing they darted, the sword glinting in the waning light of the moon, the blade slicing the air, the dark shape's bladelike claws flashing past.
Stone of Tears
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She thought the diamond was lost until she saw something glinting on the carpet.
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As she reached over to take my tray, she frowned then squinted at a glinting object in the seat in front of me.
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The gold curled and twisted in the wondrous shape of a serpent, its shimmering scales glinting in the candlelight.
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Tamis wheeled back in something close to blind fury, her short sword glinting in the light.
Antrax
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Mitch scrutinized her for a while, his brown eyes glinting with curiosity.
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Jewelled cups, their precious stones glinting in the sunlight, and silver dishes were laid out on handsome chests and cabinets.
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A tiny silver crescent moon hung from the chain, glinting in the torchlight streaming in from the open door.
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We need to picture a bright summer sun glinting off all the gold medals our athletes have won.
Times, Sunday Times
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Grey eyes became gold, glinting wickedly in the moonlight.
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No one knows who built Greylag; none can say if they were of the race of men or some older, forgotten race that walked upon the earth when the brachiosaurus still made his home in the swamps and the allosaur still gazed out from the hills at dusk, razor teeth glinting in the sunset, and called her hideous children home.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
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The raider's spear rested across the pommel of his saddle, first light glinting on its long, polished blade.
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With a silver ring glinting in his ear, and a fag dripping from the corner of his mouth he comes across as a laid-back guy who finds it hard to crack the whip when necessary.
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The 11th is a crisp fall morning with the sun glinting off the East River from a spotless hard-blue sky and a brisk nor'wester whistling through the concrete canyons, raising everyone's spirits and somehow conveying a sense of promise.
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Firstly, a man brandishes a halberd (a six-foot pole with a wide, glinting blade at its tip) before whirling it around like a majorette might twirl a baton.
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Miles saw the blade glinting in the sunlight.
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I became a short story writer instead of continuing as a poet when I saw that Scalapino called her glinting narratives poems.
"at 'night' any night is can't"
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Her hair, glinting in the starlight, cascaded over her sleeveless white top.
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Fingernails dug into his flesh and dragged him down onto the seat; a face smiled, toothily, pristine white teeth glinting under the dull lights.
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He raised his glass, looked at the clear, effervescent liquid with the light glinting invitingly through it, swirled it a little, inhaled approvingly, and took a cautious sip, but he didn't swallow immediately.
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His eyes were glinting with pleading; he looked like a dog begging for food.
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Picture the belt down across his chest with the sun glinting on the bullets that filled most of the loops.
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And now, his huge gaunt form more erect than it had been for years, with a glinting of blue fires in his small and close-set eyes, he was lifting his ancient chant again.
LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
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When the sun comes out, the blue figures of damselflies can be seen glinting above ponds and rivers.
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I saw steel instruments glinting in sunlight: forceps, scalpel, several kinds of scissors.
PREY
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Picture the belt down across his chest with the sun glinting on the bullets that filled most of the loops.
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The gate opened and closed, the leaders vanished from sight, and the common men of both parties resumed their silent surveillance of each other: the men on the palisade, and the men squatting beside their boat, with a broad stretch of sand between; and beyond a strip of blue water, the carack, with steel caps glinting all along her rail.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan
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It traced a path of wandering silver across the ocean, glinting on metaled dolphins and the gauzy wings of flying fish.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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glinting eyes
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He sounded surprised and awed, but his eyes were glinting with amusement.
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Above her, the boy was coming around the corner of the bed, his sword glinting in the dim firelight.
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The last rays of sun are glinting on a sea as flat as a bowl of olive oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still lifting his gaze to her high-piled hair, he again saw, but more pronounced, the bronze note glinting from the brown-golden hair.
CHAPTER X
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Today's return to red, wind-chapped hands stiffly clenched around the umbrella handle seemed fitting, as Edward and I wandered the deserted park that's looking a bit the way I imagine Times Square might on New Year's Day -- forlorn, with evidence of the midnight celebrations still scattered about, lingering confetti glinting from the sidewalks, on building walls, and adorning the odd mail box -- minus the shards of broken beer bottles.
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He and Thomas were slowly advancing toward me, smiling, their eyes glinting menacingly.
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The stubble fields look bare, with just the sun glinting on the pale stalks that are left.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jackie Peyton shlumps through her storylines in trainers and an anorak, unpowdered T-zone glinting ferociously under hospital striplights.
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No one knows who built Greylag; none can say if they were of the race of men or some older, forgotten race that walked upon the earth when the brachiosaurus still made his home in the swamps and the allosaur still gazed out from the hills at dusk, razor teeth glinting in the sunset, and called her hideous children home.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
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Its hot, bright colors on the slender, loosely assembled clay pieces are glinting like light on water or a school of tropical fish.
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A wide clearing, ringed by trees in full bloom, silver fish glinting in the waters of the small stream winding through it, cutting through the emerald grass.
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His gold ring was glinting in the sunlight.
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The brightly glinting late-day light seared my eyes to a tearless squint.
William
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His expression was agonized, those fangs sharp and glinting.
Deep Kiss Of Winter
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The 11th is a crisp fall morning with the sun glinting off the East River from a spotless hard-blue sky and a brisk nor'wester whistling through the concrete canyons, raising everyone's spirits and somehow conveying a sense of promise.
Tony Hendra: No Terror Funding? Consider the October Surprise 2008
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Her short hair looked soft and flossy in the late afternoon sunshine glinting through the second-storey window, shining on the golden waves.
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The ferry station, a floating wooden structure painted blue and white, creaked on currents glinting with the copper lambency of the expiring day.
Escape to Old Russia
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Their necks and chests were glinting in gold and their wrists jangled loudly with even more jewelry.
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His glinting nails swish and clink as he chases me down a long hallway hung with pictures of CEOs.
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His teeth were glinting in the twilight and his fingers were barely sheathed in skin.
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The torchlight shivers in my direction, glinting off my eyes, which makes nothing better.
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Caswallon hurdled a fallen tree, his own short sword glinting in the dying light.
The Hawk Eternal
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The stubble fields look bare, with just the sun glinting on the pale stalks that are left.
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He looked down at the fragments of glass glinting from a now thoroughly soaked patch of carpet and groaned.
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She thought the diamond was lost until she saw something glinting on the carpet.
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I shook his hand, eyes glinting wildly, hoping like hell I wasn't scaring him yet.
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With the glinting medieval spires of Bayeux cathedral as a backdrop, a bugler sounded the Last Post and the massed congregation paused for a minute's silence, many overcome with emotion.
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The woman looked up at him sharply, eyes glinting like two chips of ice.
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I watched her climb the steps, her hair swinging and glinting in the weak sunshine.
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The gold curled and twisted in the wondrous shape of a serpent, its shimmering scales glinting in the candlelight.
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glinting water
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Infinite shades of ice blue, aquamarine, cool greens and glinting whites put me in mind of an ice palace for an underwater ice queen - a deep frozen mermaid perhaps?
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The other leapt towards him with a curse, steel glinting in his right hand.
THE KEYS OF HELL
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Jewelled cups, their precious stones glinting in the sunlight, and silver dishes were laid out on handsome chests and cabinets.
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I held out the gun for him to take, its sleek black enamel glinting dully in the fluorescent light.
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She strikes a shining coin with a swift hammer blow, then holds up the glinting disc of metal.
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Supported by soft harmonies, the turning, trilling English horn melody evolves into a duet, as the flute line becomes a birdlike countermelody of rapid notes, accented with soft triangle strokes suggesting dewdrops glinting in the sun.
The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera
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Stockholm is beautiful in the mornings, the golden light glinting off the buildings.
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The only other signs of human life were a couple of windscreens glinting in the far distance.
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Hanging from the tall ceiling were millions of thick, glassy stalagmites, all perfectly sharp, their thin points glinting above the large icy pool which stretched across the room.
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You couldn't miss it glinting in the midday sun.
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He stood regarding her for a few moments, then smiled, eyes glinting in mischief.
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The early morning empty city filled her with a near orgasmic calm, a vast expanse of buildings and streets built for volumes of people, eerily peopleless, the sun, new and fresh, glinting off of endless sheets of metal and glass.
Appreciating Her Situation Uniquely
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The last rays of sun are glinting on a sea as flat as a bowl of olive oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stubble fields look bare, with just the sun glinting on the pale stalks that are left.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a bomb at the Capitol, we were told, yet it still stood, glinting under glorious skies.
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He had a weakness for everything grand, powerful and gleaming - military uniforms, brass bugles, banners and lances glinting in the sun, royal palaces and coats of arms.
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The stubble fields look bare, with just the sun glinting on the pale stalks that are left.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moonlight was glinting off Olli Rehn's receding hairline.
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What was that, glinting in the sunlight?
Times, Sunday Times
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The first opera was written when the composer was twenty-five, and it has all the glinting lightness and mordant irreverence that his early works display.
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One photograph was the famous snap of Lord Lucan, frozen in time with that cold-eyed stare and slicked-back hair glinting like liquid coal.
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Supported by soft harmonies, the turning, trilling English horn melody evolves into a duet, as the flute line becomes a birdlike countermelody of rapid notes, accented with soft triangle strokes suggesting dewdrops glinting in the sun.
The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera
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He searched out his companions with a twinkle to his grey eyes glinting below bushy white eyebrows.
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The cemetery lay on a gentle slope, the marble headstones glinting in the cold winter sunshine.
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Once core, I grow towards husk a thin rim glinting silver at the periphery of your world.
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She thought the diamond was lost until she saw something glinting on the carpet.
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We are naked, as it were, under the glinting gaze of waitrons and sales staffs across America.
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Their necks and chests were glinting in gold and their wrists jangled loudly with even more jewelry.
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In photographs designed to raise gamblers' adrenaline levels, the dogs tear around a race track after a fake rabbit, the whites of their eyes glinting and their jaws straining against their wire muzzles.
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It was all covered in white frost, glinting and melting away with the first rays of the sun, making it a perfect picture for a postcard.
