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Glint

noun

A momentary flash of light. Synonyms: flicker, spark.

A spatially localized brightness.

verb

(past & past part. glinted; pres. part. glinting)

Be shiny, as if wet. Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine.

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

... right. It must be delightful and ennobling to design such a work but the carrying out must be laborious and attended with many perplexities. I can see that you have found it so, for only yesterday I remarked with pleasure the youthful glint of your brown hair and today,—no doubt while you were superintending the laying of the dome's crown,—a lock of hair above your left temple has ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... which is the Evangel frae Eden tae Revelation, and that is the bread o' the soul. But the corn maun be threshed first and the cauf (chaff) cleaned aff. It's a bonnie sicht tae see the pure grain fallin' like a rinnin' burn on the corn-room floor, and a glint o' the sun through the window turning it intae gold. But the stour (dust) o' the cauf room is mair than onybody can abide, and the cauf's worth naethin' when ...

— Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush • Ian Maclaren

... at him strangely. A far-away glint came into his eye, and the suspicion of a tear, as ...

— Peg O' My Heart • J. Hartley Manners

... were a few, frail glances beside the thing he had done for the Spanish Woman? I saw her once driving upon the street. The glint of her splendid hair made a crown around her head. She leaned back in the carriage, smiling, looking happy and triumphant; and it was a strange thought that these days so dreadful for me were good days ...

— The Other Side of the Door • Lucia Chamberlain

... Tassel girl convoyed by Leroy Mortimer. Farther along the line, taking post, she saw Quarrier and Miss Caithness, Captain Voucher with Mrs. Mortimer, and others too distant to recognise, moving across country with glitter and glint of sunlight on slanting ...

— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers

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