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Behind him, standing on ascending tiers of golden steps, are glimmering hosts of miniature figures of him, reflections, multiplications of him, ranged there by ranks of hundreds—the Thousand Jizo.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

They nourish thus above their ultimate graves, since they, too, must fall at last and join those dead tree skeletons whose bones are glimmering amid the rocks below.

From A West Country Pilgrimage by Phillpots, Eden

The camp is almost quiet, the stars are twinkling brightly overhead, the fires are glimmering fitfully below.

From Black Ivory by Pearson, Francis B.

We are housed this night on the Kentucky side, a mile-and-a-half above Cloverport, whose half-dozen lights are glimmering in the stream.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Dark, gloomy, Tartarean hills they appear, and no wonder; for their whole interior is composed of iron, and day and night they are glimmering and smoking with a hundred fires.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various