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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Glitter (Verb)
 
  Glittering like an Eastern Caliph.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Glittered like spun glass.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Robes glitter like young sedge grass.
            —Anonymous		  3
        Glittered in the gloom
Like a gilt epitaph within a tomb.
            —Ambrose Bierce		  4
  Glittering, like a splendid wave that rises out of shapeless gloom.
            —Laurence Binyon		  5
  Cold glitter as of ice.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  6
  Glittered as if strewn with powdered pumice.
            —Gabriel D’Annunzio		  7
  Glittering as snow in the sunshine.
            —Alphonse Daudet		  8
  Glittered like dragon-flies.
            —Dr. John Doran		  9
  Glittered like fish from the sweep-net.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  10
  Glitters like a star.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  11
  Glitter like heaven new-born.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  12
  Glittered like dew.
            —Ranger Gull		  13
  Glittering like a lost jewel, which some ill-fated wanderer might pick up, and thenceforth be haunted by strange phantoms of guilt, sinkings of the heart, and unaccountable misfortune.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  14
  Glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  15
  Glitter like an angel’s ladder.
            —Alfred Edward Housman		  16
  Glittering as a parterre.
            —Victor Hugo		  17
  Glitters like a sea of light.
            —Sigmund Krasinski		  18
  Glittered like a winter sun.
            —Owen Meredith		  19
  Glittering as steel.
            —Ouida		  20
  Eye glittered like rattlesnake’s.
            —Charles Reade		  21
  Genius glittered like the gloriola of a saint.
            —Charles Reade		  22
  Glittered like a sickle of tin.
            —Edgar Saltus		  23
  Glittering like the spangled dewdrop.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  24
  His armor glytteryde as dyd a glede.
            —Richard Sheil		  25
  Glittering as the wine-bright jacinth-stone.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  26
  Glittering as wine.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  27
  Glittered like a bed of flowers.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  28
  Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  29
  Glittered … like sleet-bound trees in wintry skies.
            —John Trumbull		  30
  Glitter… like the bayonets of a regiment on parade.
            —John. C. Van Dyke		  31
  Glitter … like the glass pendants of a chandelier.
            —John. C. Van Dyke		  32
They glitter in my fancy like the distant multihedral
Steeples, domes and sunlit turrets of some beautiful cathedral.
            —Eugene Fitch Ware		  33
  Glittering like an argent shield.
            —Oscar Wilde		  34
 
 
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