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
Against the blue, stars were aglint with the twinkle of a million harbour lights.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
But above and beyond all I saw my mother, with eyes aglint and face suffused with joy.
From At the Point of the Sword by Hayens, Herbert
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
Her cap, perched precariously, was sliding off, while her flying hair, aglint in the sunshine, framed her face as he had seen it framed on the Dyea Trail.
From A Daughter of the Snows by London, Jack
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