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They also didn’t reinvest farm income or Exxon’s dividends, and they picked another specific date when gold had glittered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

No Senator, no Representative had glittered individually at the Capitol.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is sober and often solemn; with a self-confidence approaching bravado, Roth refused to use in it the skill at satirical pastiches that had glittered so brilliantly in Goodbye, Columbus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pat Nixon, who had been almost as sensible as her husband in appearing at many of the special events in clothes that she already had, glittered in a long-sleeved turquoise ballgown designed by Adele Simpson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Xaro's eyes had glittered as brightly as the jewels in his nose.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin