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Glitter   /glˈɪtər/   Listen
noun
Glitter  n.  A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.


verb
Glitter  v. i.  (past & past part. glittered; pres. part. glittering)  
1.
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. "The field yet glitters with the pomp of war."
2.
To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.
Synonyms: To gleam; to glisten; to shine; to sparkle; to glare. See Gleam, Flash.





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"Glitter" Quotes from Famous Books



... false show and glitter. When one defrauds another or seeks his own advantage to the injury of others, his act is not at all called sin, but cleverness, economy and sagacity, though meanwhile the poor must suffer want and even die of hunger. Such arguments are merely the specious ...
— Epistle Sermons, Vol. II - Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost • Martin Luther
... his seat to look round for other signs of a woman's visits, and walked to the mouth of a cavern and looked into it. His look was met by the glitter of two diamond eyes, shining out of the darkness, but gliding with a smooth, steady motion towards the light, and himself. He stood fixed, struck dumb, staring back into them with dilating pupils and sudden numbness of fear that cannot move. The two sparks of light came forward ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... properties of the Molino Company—the "near-mines" in the rocky canon of the far-off Boque. Near it lay the current number of a Presbyterian review, wherein the merits of this now moribund project were advertised in terms whose glitter had attracted swarms of eager, ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... to analyse her feelings she would find that her remark is addressed to LIVVY, and that it means, 'I have enjoyed for a little pretending to be you, but I am not you and I do not wish to be you. Your glitter and the airs of you and the racket of you tire me, I want to be done with you, and to be back in quiet Quality Street, of which I am a part; it is really pleasant to me to know that I shall wake up to-morrow slightly ...
— Quality Street - A Comedy • J. M. Barrie
... are folk whose admiration of the muscularity is very great, but whose regard for the Christianity is very small. They are captivated by the dash and glitter of physical pluck; they are quite content to accept it without any Christianity, and even without the most ordinary morality and decency. They appear, indeed, to think that the grandeur of the character is increased by the combination of thorough blackguardism ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various


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