How To Use Glitter In A Sentence
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In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight.
The Frozen Pirate
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Still there was no snow, but there was frost glittering on the ground.
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Forget Mr Motivator, this bumbag revival can be revolutionary to the fashion glitterati.
TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends
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The whole state has kind of a cowboy-Saudi glitter to it when the oil is expensive, and kind of a sepia-Joad craquelure to it when the oil is cheap.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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That includes the ever-popular plum cake, plum pudding and Yule log, marzipans glittering with a coat of sugar, and delightful creations such as nougat, truffle and gateaux.
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A brand new entertainment venue in Wyre has been unveiled with a glittering gala opening show.
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He has left behind a secure home, a loving family and a glittering array of school prizes.
Times, Sunday Times
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After glittering premieres in London and Leeds, this was a much more low-key affair as the cinema only seats 250 people, so invitations were strictly limited.
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The small piece of gold glittered brightly in the moonlight, setting off the red ruby it encircled.
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All her meanness and prosaicness was forgotten, all her imperfections and shortcomings; it was home, the one tangible thing in the glittering emptiness of the spheres.
Gulliver of Mars
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He turned to me, his eyes glittering with a new seduction.
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Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
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As Mona she wears glittering, flimsy garments with sheer embroidered scarves, hennaed hair, nail varnish and lipstick.
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Behind them another curtain of hail raced across the sea, embedding itself in the sand, turning the beach a glittering white.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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As I looked at these mines with their thousands of grinning natives and heard the rattle of gravel in the "jigs" my mind went back to Kimberley and the immense part that its glittering wealth played in determining the economic fate of South Africa.
An African Adventure
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Magazine writers are mining the territory of their day jobs to write bankable novels that bring readers inside the worlds of music and fashion glitterati.
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions.
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It is an act of worship to the sixties and seventies - to flares and body shirts and all that glitters.
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The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia.
A Sicilian Romance
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The atmosphere is decidedly creepy as the increasingly inventive deaths take place against a backdrop of innocent carols, glittering tinsel and good cheer.
The Sun
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It is a massive secular cathedral, glittering with the best retail opportunities money can buy and here nothing comes cheap, certainly not a top-end restaurant.
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Above the centre gateway, between the noble wings of the propyla which flank it, is a representative emblem of Osiris, in the shape of a splendid shield of the sun, a half-sphere of gold, from which extend wings for many yards, each feather glittering with precious stones.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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They call it a "shimmer" - a glint, a glitter, a glisten.
The Guardian World News
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This glittering dust they produce differs from the components normally acquired by a disenchantment spell.
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It is a new world tonight, bathed in love and intimate rejuvenation with the whole universe as we dance together under the glittering lights of a Kalahari sky.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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The impression given is of a glittering career, effortlessly achieved.
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Lack of investment led to the closure of the once-rich reefs and, more recently, gold itself has lost its glitter and become just another mineral deposit.
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We had reached the outer court by this, and were hurrying for the bridge that led to the pontlevis when we saw a tall man, his cuirass glittering like silver in the moonlight, step out of the shadow and signal to a trumpeter, who stood at his side.
Orrain A Romance
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Her friendship with the fashion glitterati would be endangered by Ronan's cowboy sense of style, his membership at the golf club threatened by her wild and wanton ways.
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Opulent outfits and glittering statement jewelry pieces aren't just for night time.
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Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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No wonder a glittering Hollywood career beckoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the lights went down, the cheers went up and Madonna was lowered onto the stage inside a giant glitterball.
Heat exhaustion on a dance floor « Sven’s guide to…
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Only a costly silver ring beset with rubies that glittered on one finger denoted his status as being above that of ordinary men.
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The ring glittered on its damson pouffe like some intra-uterine device.
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About 600 guests flocked to the Knavesmire Stand at York Racecourse for the glittering event with live bands, discos, food, casinos and prize competitions.
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The card is a froth of glitter and highly scrumpled clumps of tissue paper.
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Sam, a self-confessed tinhorn, “expected to find masses of silver lying all about the ground and glittering in the sun on the mountain summits.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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Now, he says, he wants to give other youngsters an opportunity of a glittering career, too.
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Fashion shows are inevitable hangouts on the glitterati calendar.
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The final effect was rubbing a glue stick randomly on the snow and sprinkling it with silver glitter for that sparkly look that snow sometimes has.
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To the outside world he was a glittering success.
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It glittered and it looked almost as if a current of water ran through it.
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The curtains are made of saris glittering with sequins a tracery of gold threads unfurling.
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Romani, Imperium Populi Romani, Fortuna Populi Romani_, glitter out of the voluminous periods with a splendour that hardly any other words could give.
Latin Literature
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Rather call the dusky and dark-haired Twilight, whose pensive face is limned against the western hills, by the name of that fierce and fervid Noon that stands erect under the hot zenith, instinct with the red blood of a thousand summers, casting her glittering tresses abroad upon the south-wind, and holding in her hands the all-unfolded rose of life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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MEN who dedicate their time to community work were rewarded at a glittering ceremony.
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Organza makes a great splash along with tulle, lace, elegant luxury fabrics combined with glittering Chantilly, crushed velvet, jersey with lurex and iridescent cady.
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The sky is glittering with stars.
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Department store Marks & Spencer is launching an underwear range for men featuring thongs and glittery pants.
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She was in pantomime at the time, and she managed to get glitter in her eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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A conscientious attempt has been made to trace the life and career of Yvette Guilbert from her childhood in the Parisian gutter (or not far removed from it), through her glittering supremacy as a fin de siècle diseuse, on into the years of waning prestige and cultural pretension, and so to her last days, harassed and impecunious, in the bleak Provence of 1944.
This Was Not Yvette
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Entering through the low door, they saw opposite them above a fireplace two swords sheathed in their scabbards, glittering in the gloom.
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Typically, he will cover a turntable in glitter or a loudspeaker in a tight-fitting sequined tank top, thus rendering each object quite unable to function.
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Daguerreotypes have extreme depth and detail, together with an elusive, glittering, mirror-like quality that shifts between negative and positive images.
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Meanwhile, this morning, the Complaint Department brought me a glitterball, which was both a lovely gesture and made me realize that she has been increasingly anhedonic for a while now.
And the boys of the nypd choir were singing galway bay
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Hong Kong's glitterati and socialites showed up in force.
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If you want to rub shoulders with the modern-day glitterati, go for dinner at any of the restaurants by the harbour.
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If we had in our power the pen which traced the delicate marvels of Queen Mab, not bigger than an agate that glitters on the finger of an alderman, of her liny chariot, of her diaphanous team, only then should we succeed in giving an idea of a purely ideal talent into which matter enters hardly at all.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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They are full of the glitter and bluster of German militarism ?mailed fist and shining armour.
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In today's review section Anthony Edwards, playwright, poet, novelist and general wordsmith, talks about his glittering career.
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Ecole de Droit; the huge Alsacian carabineer, grimly smiling under his sandy moustaches and glittering brass helmet; the jolly nurse, in red calico, who had been to Paris to show mamma her darling
The Paris Sketch Book
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Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Patrik Cox has distinguished himself by the extensive use of rhinestones on stretch trousers, trimming pockets, hems and side seams with bands of glittering stones.
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The villa galleria was baroquely ostentatious and many of the artworks just clutter-glitter.
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Two captains ride before them on shaggy ponies, the taller in armor, stained and rusted with many a storm and fray, the other in brilliant inlaid cuirass and helmet, gaudy sash and plume, and sword hilt glittering with gold, a quaint contrast enough to the meager garron which carries him and his finery.
Westward Ho!
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Her shoulder-length jet-black hair glittered in the sunlight as did her blue-gray eyes.
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Its aim is to expose the 'glitterati' of the wine world to the best of our Pinot Noir within an event environment that combines fine wine with fine cuisine and kiwi entertainment.
ScreenTalk
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Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Going by the trend, fashion shows are normally associated with glitterati and glitz.
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My eyes were drawn to the exotic colors of beautiful gowns and glittering jewels the Thai ladies wore.
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Awash with glittering gold, adorned in yellowy brilliance, the jewellery designers cut a new path, defiantly and creatively.
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For most other artists this would be the glittering jewel at the centre of their career.
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The plate is overlaid with glittering gold.
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Mr. Puck is also on a first-name basis with many of Hollywood's glitterati and each year cooks up dreamy delights such as Kobe burgers, artichoke salad and tomato confit and cassis gelle for a host of celebrities at the post-Oscars Governors Ball.
Wolfgang Puck's Kitchen Adventures
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The newspaper also picked up awards in the sales and distribution areas of its business at a glittering ceremony.
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The moment you enter the gates you're swallowed up in a labyrinth of latticed houses where tailors embroider silken hangings and silversmiths work on glittering jewellery.
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There is, in fact, a glittering array of dignified and sometimes very lucrative offices open to members of the Bar.
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PCCW Teleservices enjoys a large number of customer bouquets and renewed contracts year by year, as well as a glittering array of awards and industry recognition from worldwide organizations.
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I laced my fingers together, sighing and looking down at the glittering, clear, ashtray in the middle of our table.
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There's a glittering array of glass to choose from at markets.
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Baubles can be painted, stencilled, sprayed, wrapped or decorated with fabric, ribbons, glitter, pearls and beads.
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The little waves of the river glittered and shone and rolled lazily down upon the channel, or curled up in rippling eddies towards the shore.
The Hills of the Shatemuc
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But if you probe beneath the glittering surface there's a hollow where the heart should be.
Times, Sunday Times
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But if you probe beneath the glittering surface there's a hollow where the heart should be.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually, it's two varnishes - an opaque yellowy gold base coat and a see-through gold with glitter as the top coat.
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Did you wear glittery eyeshadow?
Times, Sunday Times
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Light, glittering synths work to counter his deep, gutsy vocal to amazing effect.
The Sun
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Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
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High lining takes a glitter liner and lines under the natural arch of the brow.
The Sun
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It smells softly of rose and contains tiny pieces of fairy glitter designed to sparkle subtly - guaranteed to make you look like the cat's miaow.
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At the same time, the expert Capuchin let his master see that he held upon his arm one of his victims, whom he was forming into a docile instrument; this was a young gentleman who wore a very short green cloak, a pourpoint of the same color, close-fitting red breeches, with glittering gold garters below the knee-the costume of the pages of Monsieur.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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A galaxy of spangles and silver coins glitters across each back.
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The works are fashioned from paper and use ink, glitter and pins and are incredibly delicate, erotic and dense.
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What he saw was the thunder-lights lifting, and the bells pealing an urgent carillon as the glittering gold ship was spotted.
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Turns out only one of his two associates is from Portland, and he has the hard-edged glitter in his eyes and cuff-links that I associate with men of rank, or at least of pretension to such.
For Adams, photo op becomes knock op (Jack Bog's Blog)
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A smudge of pearly glitter was left on each cheek.
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Some recognise those who have had long and glittering careers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The glittering threads of rivers twisted their way to the sea and Hayes could just make out the lighter wash where they discharged sediment.
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Everything in the shop is handpicked vintage couture, collector pieces (like a variety of crinolines, ball gowns, glittery jeweled handbags, rare footwear), and different genres and styles of kitsch fashion.
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He dazzled his army of adoring fans as he breezed into the city to embark on a new chapter in his glittering career… hotel ownership.
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The sea glittered in the sun.
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There are pubs and lounge bars to unwind in, hep streets to walk on, nice shops and glittering malls to browse in and cafes to relax in.
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We can give them rhinestones or glitter on the nails, or make-up, which is blusher, eyes and lips.
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We had set out reluctantly on a Friday evening at the end of a hard working week through a wintry countryside glittering with frost and wreathed in freezing mist.
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He remembers her as a non-stereotypical 1950s housewife, riding her white bicycle down the middle of the high street while smoking a Woodbine and wearing rubber, high-heeled glitter-flecked galoshes.
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Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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My face glowed without looking glittery or greasy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Croft thought her eyes glittered with excitement, but, in the darkness of the carriage, he could not be sure.
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I have never forgotten -- never -- never _forgotten_!" faltered Madeleine, in a voice that had a sound of tears, answering to those that glittered in her eyes.
Fairy Fingers A Novel
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Well-meaning pedants may wonder why so gifted a verbal prestidigitator as Mr. Ives has resorted so often to imperfect rhymes, each one of which diminishes the hectic glitter of the play's verbal surface by a tiny but measurable increment.
Flying Couplets and Canapés
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Her eyes glittered with a new emotion, one he could identify all to easily.
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Stars hung from the ceiling interwoven with fairy lights and glitter decorated every surface.
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Her eyes were glittering mischievously and I knew well enough by now that that look meant she knew something we didn't.
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In many ways he had a charmed life: springing from a humble background in Edwardian Cornwall, he gained a coveted scholarship to Oxford, where he had a glittering early career.
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Platform boots, flares and wide lapels, satin suits and big hair dos, as well as lashings of glitter, will all be on the fashion menu as revellers relive the years of Abba's heyday.
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A whole district of the old town continues to be devoted to making cribs - tiny animals, glittering wise men and pink infant Christs.
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The feet were constantly caught and entangled in the long grass, that was parched in the scorching sun; the eyes were dazzled on all sides by the glaring metallic glitter on the young reddish leaves of the trees; on all sides were the variegated blue clusters of vetch, the golden cups of bloodwort, and the half-lilac, half-yellow blossoms of the heart's-ease.
A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I
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Yet it would not be a complex city if, beneath the glittering lights, there were no chronic problems.
Times, Sunday Times
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a glitter of apprehension in her hunted eyes
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Sequins, wool, glitter, photographs, lace, collage, clothing and even vinyl records have been used to decorate the figures.
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Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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The temple was beautiful to behold, with its golden walls glittering in the sunshine.
POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
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Readers have taken me to task since my last Country Diary on the pools that spangle the high ridges like glittering sequins.
Country diary: Lake District
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Nika stood up as her captive yanked and strained at the glittering strand that leashed her, shoulders bunching and teeth bared.
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All that shopping and eating and arguing and crying and all the glitter and tacky decorations.
Times, Sunday Times
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He claimed she had given up her glittering legal career to be a dutiful housewife.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thorax: the disk very closely punctured, the metathorax rugose; the sides and the legs with a fine glittering sericeous pile, the wings subhyaline, their apical margins fuscous, the nervures fuscous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Parents would rather their kids go in for glitter as they feel it is a better option to piercing or tattooing the body.
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Joe is squatter and swarthier: his eyebrows beetle; his black pupils glitter.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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The stage was like an enchanted garden with the musicians surrounded by pink twinkling trees and glittering silver statues.
Times, Sunday Times
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At first I scarcely noticed them, supposing them to be vast beds of silvery bottom sand glittering under the electric pencil of the hydroscope.
Police!!!
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions.
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And women politicians always look really uncomfortable wearing glittery skirts all the time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Firth of Tay glittered like crumpled silver foil, and the city shone with an inner light.
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They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine; the eagle, soaring amidst the cloud — they all gathered round me, and bade me be at peace.
Chapter 10
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My lasting impression of OSB is glitter and sparkles, but that is getting ahead of myself.
Ohio Star Ball
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The hedgerows looked greener and the sunshine was glittering off the Firth of Forth.
For Love or Money
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Gold stitching and glittering jewels were placed in intricate designs at carefully determined places.
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The 45-strong squad is to begin fund-raising soon to enable them either to make or buy their own glittering tunics and uniforms.
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At night, it looks out on a fairyland of Manhattan's glittering lights.
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Glittering jewels and sparkles decorated the front of the dress and contrasted the red ruby that hung against her neck.
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Now I must shower and dress and feed this cat (who brought me a glitterball last night; I guess all is forgiven?) and start working on Seven for a Secret until the farmer's market opens at (the civilized hour of) 9, because I need to buy lettuce.
I'm the baby's cry that isn't. i am the distant relative....
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All the shine and glitter from jewelry will not go out of fashion for a long time.
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FILM premieres are usually glittering red carpet affairs.
The Sun
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Each elephant is caparisoned in glittering gold, red, silver or blue cloth, studded with brilliants and lit with lamps.
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In the beginning," said the Nurse, dreamily, "the men in their uniforms, the drums and horses and glitter, and the flags passing, and youth -- _youth_ -- not that you and I are yet old in years; do you know what I mean?
Special Messenger
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We have pompons, blue and red wigs, glitter and face paint.
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He is also one of the stars of The Winter's Tale, a production first seen in 2005, which features Bell as a bare-chested Gary Glitter of an Autolycus, who can strip a shepherd down to a G-string while he keeps him talking.
She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review
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When, however, the little insignificant figure we have described approached so nigh as to receive some interruption from the warders, he dashed his dusky green turban from his head, showed that his beard and eyebrows were shaved like those of a professed buffoon, and that the expression of his fantastic and writhen features, as well as of his little black eyes, which glittered like jet, was that of a crazed imagination.
The Talisman
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But in my book, beauty without smiles and charm means very little in an industry overrun by glitz and glitter.
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The sky outside the Sanctuary was a rich, deep blue; several pinpoints of stars glittered softly.
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Popsicle sticks are still in vogue, as are styrofoam, garden hose tubing, particle board, wire and glitter glue.
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Later that evening the Kimmel Center hosts a red-carpet-styled gala for the glitterati and a dress-to-the-nines semiformal.
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To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be.
CORONATION DAY
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Her skin and hair were dry and uncared for, but her eyes had the glittery, splintery look of shattered mirrors.
BARN BLIND
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The chandelier glittered, its crystal teardrops like small golden suns.
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It sparkled like glitter, and then disappeared.
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Her glittering, purple singlet top shifted as she moved her graceful arms, revealing the skin of her taut stomach.
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She was in pantomime at the time, and she managed to get glitter in her eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first thing she saw were stars, glittering like diamonds against the blackness.
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Blessed with picturesque locales, the city may soon become the ‘most favoured destination’ for the glitterati of the film world.
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Overhead, a glittering canopy of stars shimmers around the broad sweep of the Milky Way.
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The beadlike eyes turned, glittering, on all sides; the thin, wicked lips quivered with bad passions; the tiny hands sheathed and unsheathed the little swords and daggers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
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The glittering blue thigh had articulated sharply in the middle, shortening along its length and snapping the femur within.
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The first female had layered blond hair and glittering green eyes.
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She was wearing multicoloured jazzy pants and a slinky glittery rainbow top that exposed her entire back, a lot of her stomach and neck and was very risqué.
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So, amid glitter of illuminated streets and Champs Elysees, and crackle of fireworks and glad deray, has the first National Assembly vanished; dissolving, as they well say, into blank Time; and is no more.
The French Revolution
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Flanked on either side by a lass with a muckle great sword, and blowing for all he's worth, Kenny leads the procession into the main exhibition and conference hall, through a glitter of camera flashes.
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That glitter in the water comes in the shape of big coho salmon, better known as "silvers," and fishing has been fairly good.
The Seattle Times
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Tut's glittering treasures made great headlines—and so did sensationalistic accounts of the subsequent death of expedition sponsor Lord Carnarvon.
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I ducked down in onto my hands and knees, and right before my eyes, I saw the jackknife that Todd was carrying discarded on the ground, it was tremendously shiny, and glittered in the company of a red handle.
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For this manicure you will need a wedge makeup sponge, a palette, and a glitter polish.
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Well then I bought another top from New Look (isn't this commentary riveting?!) and some hair things which have flowers covered in glitter on them (yayness!).
Sheepdip Diary Entry
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Confused, I blinked open an eye and found one of our lab buddies staring down at me with an amused glitter in his bright blue eyes.
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One of the pleasures of this novel is Cunningham's description of these intoxicating homes, from the "insistent glittery buzz" of a Manhattan party to a rambling mansion on the coast, "all fieldstone and gables, girded on three of its four sides by verandas; contrived, somehow, with a sense of absolute authenticity.
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles
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Scattered glitter at the sides adds a touch of exuberance and bedazzlement.
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The first movement's mix of romantic yearning and arpeggiated glitter, toy fanfares and epic octaves, is unsettling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The charm - that demon glitter of narrowed eyes which had given the lie to all previous insults - was conspicuously absent.
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Add a light sprinkling of glitter gel for added dazzle or jazz up the sides or back with hair jewels.
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The Christmas tree has been up and glittering for two days now, dripping with lights, baubles and shiny things of all kinds.
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This geologic backdrop is what gives the Costa Smeralda such dramatic beauty, and it is this beauty that has attracted Italian high society and international glitterati for decades.
The Subdued Side of Sardinia
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The card was wrapped in a purple envelope that was sprayed with some kind of perfume and decorated heavily with glitter.
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She wears glittery low-cut tops and doesn't mind showing off her ample cleavage.
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Medals hung from above the breast pocket, glittering coldly in the lamplight.
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A passport to wealth and a glittering show business career?
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Rumour is that in his headlong hurry, when mounting behind his yoked horses to begin the battle, he left his father's sword behind and caught up his charioteer Metiscus 'weapon; and that served him long, while Teucrian stragglers turned their backs; when it met the divine Vulcanian armour, the mortal blade like brittle ice snapped in the stroke; the shards lie glittering upon the yellow sand.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Like a whole different city, uncorrupted, out here all by itself, rich and clean, where all that glitters is not just gold but diamonds, rubies, and every other precious gem and metal that one could possibly imagine.
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So the whole ritual is a sublimated performance in glittering vestments and ceremonial gestures which transform everydayness into a quasi-encounter with the otherworldly.
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Fly girl: Pink dangled from a Cirque du Soleil-type contraption while performing Glitter in the Air.
Grammy Awards: Soaring to eclectic heights
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Glittery, white snowflakes hung from the ceiling, while along the edges of the bleachers was white gossamer that was also draped over the bleachers.
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Beneath its surface glitter, the fashion industry is a tough place to work in.
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Below in the glittering blue Pacific half a dozen dolphins were playing in the surf, skimming in just below the face of the breakers then flipping out over the crest as the wave broke.
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His glittering eyes rested for a moment in bantering triumph on
CHAPTER XV
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She was fastening some of her hair up with glittery clips while the rest cascaded down her neck and back.
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But the daggers had remained sheathed during the meal, and she had allowed her thoughts to drift into those glittering waters.
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Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windows… the displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation.
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions.
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He bit, and there was an outright flash of anger at that: ears flattening and a glitter of teeth in the firelight.
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The duet for soprano and mezzo and its glittering cabaletta are distinguished by daring harmonics and challenging pyrotechnics.
