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Glint   /glɪnt/   Listen
Glint

noun
1.
A momentary flash of light.  Synonyms: flicker, spark.
2.
A spatially localized brightness.
verb
(past & past part. glinted; pres. part. glinting)
1.
Be shiny, as if wet.  Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine.
2.
Throw a glance at; take a brief look at.  Synonyms: glance, peek.  "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"





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"Glint" Quotes from Famous Books



... Shann caught the glint of eyes in a furred mask; it was either Taggi or his mate. Then a puff of mixed Throng and chemical scent from the camp must have reached the wolverine. The animal coughed ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton
... eyes The vision of me. Always I shall be Limned on the darkness like a shaft of light That glimmers and is gone. They shall behold Each one his dream that fashions me anew;— With hair like lakes that glint beneath the stars Dark as sweet midnight, or with hair aglow Like burnished gold that still retains the fire. Yea, I shall haunt until the dusk of time The heavy eyelids filled with ...
— Helen of Troy and Other Poems • Sara Teasdale
... fight?" demanded the father suddenly, with a glint in his eyes that I have seen in my own father's when he was telling us ...
— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane
... the basement to the roof, with every window-shade illumined. Outside the steps, and as far out as the curb, lounged groups of attendants, while in the side street, sheltered by the ghostly trees, there could be made out the wheels and hoods of carryalls and the glint of harness. Now and then the door would open and a bevy of muffled figures—the men in cloaks, the girls in nubias wound about their heads and shoulders—would pass out. The Seymours were evidently giving a ball, or was it—and the blood left his face and little chills ...
— Kennedy Square • F. Hopkinson Smith
... a glint under the wall," answered Kosmaroff. "There—there it is again. Steel. There is some one there. It is the gleam of those ...
— The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman


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