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“In the fire’s glow, the foils, too, would have glittered, the towering roof posts appearing through the smoke as pillars of shining golden lights,” Price invites us to imagine.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2020

In the place itself you will see scarcely a trace of the great personages whose names have glittered in its list of sieges, battles, massacres, pageants, and triumphal entries.

From The Story of Rouen by Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir

She might have added rouge to the powder, she might have glittered all over with diamonds, sham or real, and I would not have minded.

From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

It could not have been bigger—it could not have glittered more.

From When the Yule Log Burns A Christmas Story by Dalrymple, Leona

What happy tears would have glittered in Esther's eyes had she been there to see it, and in Henry's too, and particularly, perhaps, in excitable Angel's!

From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard