How To Use Glittering 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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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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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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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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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To the outside world he was a glittering success.
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The curtains are made of saris glittering with sequins a tracery of gold threads unfurling.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Light, glittering synths work to counter his deep, gutsy vocal to amazing effect.
The Sun
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 glittering, purple singlet top shifted as she moved her graceful arms, revealing the skin of her taut stomach.
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The first thing she saw were stars, glittering like diamonds against the blackness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The duet for soprano and mezzo and its glittering cabaletta are distinguished by daring harmonics and challenging pyrotechnics.
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He was no apologist, but the glittering, near-feverish eloquence of his writing suggests fascination, almost reverence.
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Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering facade.
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New England, with its little white fences, glittering snow and bare trees was beautiful!
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More than a century ago, English economist John Ruskin observed that the same economic system that creates glittering wealth also spawns what he called illth — poverty, pollution, despair, illness.
Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1
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This glittering cabaret-style musical shakes up Shakespeare with tap dances, torch songs, tuxedos, sequins and side-splitting sketches.
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Even if the display erred on the side of parsimony, the gleaming expanse of wooden flooring and the glittering space above seemed to invite one in to marvel.
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Hard, glittering sounds with surprising beauties.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the interval the soloist had changed from her strapless, formfitting glittering blue to a classical, double-tiered dress in subdued pastels.
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what a beautiful way to start a dance, just a slow slide of the toe along glittering black marble.
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She wears glittering, flimsy garments with sheer embroidered scarves, hennaed hair, nail varnish and lipstick.
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It was to be a glittering beanfeast for the Halifax Bank - its first annual meeting outside Yorkshire in 150 years.
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Lucky for Peter Neyroud to have landed a nice plum job for when his glittering chiefship comes to an end.
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There was only the dark and the path, glittering pinkly but dimming like a guttering candle flame.
Slice Of Cherry
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The form was vaguely human, but also amphibian, with a froglike mouth opened wide and glittering white gems for eyes.
End of Time
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They are studded with stones and plastic gems, also sometimes with ribbons and glittering fabric paints to enhance the look.
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Use your managerial knowhow to select a team from the glittering array of Premier League superstars listed on the right.
The Sun
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A glittering biocomputer smaller than your fist, studded with tiny vernier thrusters, suspended on a web of particle collectors stretching ten meters across, drifting through the void around a fading star.
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A favourite with day-trippers, the small town is crammed with glittering gift shops, candyfloss and tourists.
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The short divide beyond the far bank of the Sirr is strewn with glittering mica-schist that takes the forms of tree-trunks and rotten wood; and with dark purple-blue fragments of clay-slate looking as if they had been worked.
The Land of Midian
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The glittering sapphire fabric, crepe accented with tiny diamantés, highlighted her blue eyes, and pale blonde hair.
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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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She would show the glittering arch of her upper third, occasionally, and scrape it along behind the comblike row; sometimes a pinnacle stood straight up, like a statuette of ebony, against that glittering white shield, then seemed to glide out of it by its own volition and power, and become a dim specter, while the next pinnacle glided into its place and blotted the spotless disk with the black exclamation-point of its presence.
A Tramp Abroad
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A dolphin leapt from the water, the drops of water sparkling and glittering.
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The stunning songwriter has sustained a glittering career, but she's had enough and she's knocking it on the head.
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Get the old rents in thy canvas reglued; the holes and cracks refilled with varnish; wrap thyself in the magic webs of hazy clouds and glittering mists; fly to the Poet, and unroll thyself ever before him!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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They passed treasuries, armouries, vast stores of knowledge which no-one could read and other, stranger rooms where odd lights glittered and air froze into glittering streamers which hung in the air.
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He strove for the glittering prizes of politics.
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The atmosphere was electric as they took to the stage in bright glittering and flamboyant costumes.
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All I can aver is that, if I am not to be permitted to draw the glittering sword of my tongue from the scabbard of my mouth, I shall infallibly, in sheer sickishness at such short-sighted folly, throw up my brief!
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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It was a long, silvery iridescent gown covered with glittering stars and moons.
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A favourite with day-trippers, the small town is crammed with glittering gift shops, candyfloss and tourists.
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The land and sky were gone and only filaments remained, glittering gossamer against endless, starless black.
End of Time
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As I turned, far off in Cairo I saw the first lights glittering across the fields of doura, silvery white, like diamonds.
The Spell of Egypt
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The hill was lightly talcumed with snow, glittering with crystal-like blindness, giving the impression of frigid formality; the December afternoon sun, sitting low in a field of blue, kindled a promising evening.
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It was clear that Rayshan was on a steep learning curve, and in the back straight he fiddled the sixth flight of hurdles, and suddenly his glittering potential looked set to be tarnished.
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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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A wide-brimmed hat was pulled down low over his eyes, but Alanis could still see them, surprisingly watchful and aware, glittering at her, like two black beetles in a weather-beaten face.
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The camera dips into a flowing stream, glittering in the sunshine.
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If she had taken that course, her career would have ended on a glittering high and her reputation would have been completely assured and almost unblemished.
Times, Sunday Times
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As they flew over the house and looked down on colourful gardens she could see a pool of some considerable size, glittering greenly in the sun.
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But Little John was already gone to the saddle-bags, and returning he laid the Bishop's cloak upon the ground, and poured out of the portmantua a matter of four hundred glittering gold pieces.
Robin Hood
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions.
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So who did manage to sparkle as the glamour got glittering?
The Sun
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In the corner was a piano, polished keys glittering under white light and two guitars - an acoustic and an electric.
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Christopher lifted her hand, the ring glittering in the light.
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FILM premieres are usually glittering red carpet affairs.
The Sun
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I pulled the sword out of the sheath, the silver blade glittering in the moonlight.
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What about Dilly? she cried, eyes wide, glittering with unshed tears.
A little festive fibbing
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It is a double whammy that will showcase Brazil's glittering potential and subject it to the glare of global scrutiny.
The Sun
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I tore my eyes away from the glittering chandelier hanging from the ceiling.
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The tide was going out, and the sand was smooth and glittering.
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He ran his hand through his brown hair, his glittering blue eyes inspecting girls who walked by.
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Your passinate eyes are like glittering stars.They glitter in my heart lightly.
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He has filled the empty apron stage with a magical, glittering and visually delightful scenes and tableaux to follow the fall from grace of the Master and his lover.
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He nodded and stepped back his eyes still glittering.
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Riding on a black horse, and glittering with black enamelled armour as well, the brother was more than a little vulpine.
A TIME OF WAR
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I felt myself very much the household drudge, and Stephen was getting all the glittering prizes.
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A millenary confection in grey felt, glittering with rhinestones, trimmed in black grosgrain.
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The subterranean flames roared and crackled; the hills were shaken to their centre; the caves were heaving in their depths, and fresh, glittering, golden, diamantine lumps came ever gushing from the fused and seething mass.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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The newly-awakened sheep bleated from the hills, and the umbrageous herbage, dropping dew, seemed glittering with a thousand fairy gems.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Glittering snow globes delight children and adults alike, while individual ornaments ranging from three to 12 inches high provide dazzling centrepieces.
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A probing ray of sunlight touched its body, glittering off scales too fine to see.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Today the City Palace is considered one of the most beautiful buildings in Rajasthan, with courtyards trimmed with scalloped arcades, and magnificent glittering mosaics.
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For nearly two decades, cheerful Norman Mouland chauffeured a host of Salisbury mayors to some of the city's most glittering events.
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‘I also want to have a few trick ponies, for a circus exhibition,’ she said then allowed her maid to button her into a sleeveless gown of rich, iridescent black with falls of midnight lace and rows of glittering, jet beads.
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All day long Cinderella wore rags and dragged her feet in clogs, but at night she whirled in fine vair shoes and glittering gowns.
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Behind the glittering facade of large casino/hotels along the boardwalk remain large areas of wasteland where small family hotels and summer houses once stood.
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Amber turned to me, her eyes glittering seductively as they met mine.
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The once bare evergreen branches are now adorned with silver tinsel and glittering ornaments.
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Abillowy frock of mauve and pink tulle, with a tiny jewelled bodice, is completedby a tinted wig in the same primula shade, while glittering bracelets, caught withwisps of tulle, show up the fairylike wrists manipulating a great fan of snow-whiteplumes.
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I'd spoke too soon; when she whirled round, her eyes were glittering with outrage.
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This young man was handsome, in most of the village girls' opinions anyway, with long, sleek hair tied back in a ponytail and glittering green eyes.
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He won many other honours in his glittering career at club level, and of course donned the county jersey in different footballing grades countless times.
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I have always taken much pride in being part of that tradition, a tradition which has given birth to a large number of glittering international careers.
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Old men decked in brocaded black robes talked in huddles, their matronly wives - veterans of grand weddings past - glittering gold and exuding scent.
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And there, in the dusty noonday sun, the kids beheld a glittering pile of golden coins.
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He threw a party worthy of a millionaire and attracted a glittering crowd of beautiful people.
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A series of worm-holes traced erratic hieroglyphics across a scaling corner; all the varied texts were illuminated by quartzose particles glittering in the sun, and here and there fine green grains of glauconite.
The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
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The wat is extremely ornate and embellished with murals, statues, and glittering gold.
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Soon a small column of figures appears on the horizon, snaking down an embankment in the glittering morning light.
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Paxton's fairy palace of glass and iron, erected in Hyde Park, and canopying in its glittering spaces the untouched, majestic elms of that national pleasure-ground as well as the varied treasures of industrial and artistic achievement brought from every quarter of the globe, divided the charmed astonishment of foreign spectators with the absolute orderliness of the myriads who thronged it and crowded all its approaches on the great opening day.
Great Britain and Her Queen
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However, that reverse should not take away anything from the glittering career of a colt that helped bring closer ties between horse racing and football.
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I'm heading back to Cornwall tomorrow, where I shall recline in a bejewelled chaise-longue in one of the many glittering salons and wow the courtiers with tales of the mysterious ways of the natives here in London Village.
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She could see nothing for miles but more stony peaks glittering in their mantles of silver and white.
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It seemed a glittering showbiz career lay ahead.
The Sun
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His maddened eyes, as if by a miracle, was cleared of frost and he was able to see the glittering moon shining on the mysteries of the forest.
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If we as a nation had the strength to detach from the glittering, flickering baubles beamed into our cerebral cortexes and mute the bleating klaxons, we'd realize that the "news" spouted from many a sneering, slanted mouth is pure carnival barking, and we'd see what America has allowed itself to become.
Steven Weber: Step Outside
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The dad-of-two received a special award for courage in the face of adversity at the glittering ceremony.
The Sun
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Best of all is the wonderful, pivotal scene in which Tilly Tremayne's well-judged, shrewd widow takes on Harriet Walter's glittering bawd at chess.
Women Beware Women; Bingo
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Sapphires and jet decorated a chain around his neck, the gems glittering as coldly as his eyes.
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Rumours of awards abound, and a glittering career awaits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beautiful wreathes made of fragrant greens, lights twinkling in a multitude of colors, ornaments glittering, Christmas stockings … you can choose from a variety of unique designs.
26 Christmas Decorating Ideas for Your Home
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There was absolute silence as the strange ritual was done, the only sound the muffled chink of coins and the rustle of clothes as each recipient genuflected to the glittering Prince.
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After the interval the soloist had changed from her strapless, formfitting glittering blue to a classical, double-tiered dress in subdued pastels.
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The book covers eight years in which Fry enjoys a glittering time at university and then embarks on a career in showbiz.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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She's a princess in pink, dripping with gold and crowned with a glittering tiara.
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Of course it is miraculous that the view outside my window is a palette of washed browns and greys, dripping with glittering raindrops.
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I pass between mighty sentinel-like pines and come out at a crest with Wellington City below to my left and the Harbour glittering metallically beyond.
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Just look at our privatized superhighways, our breath-taking airports, our glittering tower blocks - the highest in the world!
