aglint
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of aglint
Example Sentences
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His step was springy, his shoulders squared, his eyes aglint with reminiscence as he strode on to the West Point parade ground to review the Corps of Cadets.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man who never saw anything in a rose aglint in the sunlight or in a lily asleep in the moonlight, but a species of useless vegetable, the inferior of the cabbage and the onion.
From Rosemary and Rue by Amber
But lo! the air was aglint with particles of scintillating frost, and there, to the north, the wind-vane lay in vague outline of the snow.
From The Son of the Wolf by Jack London
A long expanse of the Hudson was in sight from where he stood, its broad, rippled surface aglint in the September sunshine.
From The Crimson Sweater by Ralph Henry Barbour
Virtue of this kind is simply the eternal huntsman in man's breast with eyes aglint for a victim.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
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