32 collocations for glimmers

She stopped a moment, weakened by her toiling against the wind, threw off her hood, the better to catch her laboring breath, and standing so, looked back at the city, its lights glimmering white and pale, through the falling snow.

If it be winter which is passing away, you hear the song of approaching spring; if it be summer which is vanishing, you see glimmering on the horizon the undefinable smile of autumn.

Above them glimmers the dawn of starlight.

From where I sit, I see the stars, And down the chilly floor The moon between the frozen bars Is glimmering dim and hoar.

who could gaze on thee Untouched by tender thoughts, and glimmering dreams Of long-departed years?

He found that new target at once, for his glance reached to the corner of the room and found there the greenish, glimmering eyes of the dog.

not whollystill Love's eyes Trace thy dim beauty through the mystic veil, Like the young moon that glimmers faint and pale, At noontide through the sun-web of the skies; But ah!

In the interior hung a hammock or two; and on the ground glimmered a little fire, under a heap of ashes, in which a few roots, Indian corn, and bananas, were roasting.

But if a stone the gentle scene divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run.

There were sounds of revelry by night, where fair women and gallant men drew around the social board, on which sparkled the wine-cup and glimmered the yellow gold, to be taken up by the winner.

It was almost dark in the room now, and the window glimmered a forlorn gray.

It was broiling hot in the swamp; the Zouaves stood bathed in perspiration as the regiment halted for a few minutes, then they moved forward again toward a hard ridge of grass which glimmered green beyond the tangled thicket's edges.

The adjectival epithets are worth noting for their poetic felicity: wingèd Persuasions (again hinting at [Greek: epea pteroenta]), veiled Destinies, glimmering Hopes and Fears, twilight Phantasies.

The faint blue line across the upper névé, scarcely distinguishable to the eye, represents to one observer nothing but a trifling undulation; a second, perhaps, knows that it means a crevasse; the mountaineer remembers that it is the top of a huge chasm, thirty feet across, and perhaps ten times as deep, with perpendicular sides of glimmering blue ice, and fringed by thick rows of enormous pendent icicles.

He forced a scowl, but through it glimmered a joy in which Flora discerned again the thought of Anna.

From the streets glimmered a few lanterns, like candles in a long cave.

In the same instant, I saw that a fluctuating glimmer of violet light outlined the metal of the gun-barrels and the blade of the sword bayonet, making them seem like faint shapes of glimmering light, floating unsupported where the tabletop should have shown solid.

Dimly she thought to be up and gone once more, but could get no farther than the thought although behind her closed lids glimmered a memory of deadly combat.

Immediately opposite him glimmered a huge white outlinein the incalculable night it might be a hundred yards or a mile away.

The huge moors, glimmering pale and unreal beneath their snow, ran past them into the skysilent forms corresponding to who knows what pedal notes?

They stood against a background of semi-luminous blue haze, through which glimmered a pile of coppery straw half covered by a red blanket.

Aucassin is cast and bound In a dungeon underground; Never does the sunlight fall Shining on his prison wall; Only one faint ray of it Glimmers down a narrow slit.

As he grew up, the great North glimmered through his thought, a sort of big field,a paradise of no work, no flogging, and white bread every day, where the old man sat and ate his fill.

The soldiers turned to see Caroline frightfully pale, his mouth hanging open, with a look in which glimmered the last spark of reason, for Carolino, who was no other than Tano, Cabesang Tales' son, and who had just returned from the Carolines, recognized in the dying man his grandfather, Tandang Selo.

But that was long gone by: and waste and war, And civil strife more ruthless still than they, Had quenched the lustre of Glen-Lynden's star, Which glimmered now, with dim reclining ray, O'er this secluded spot,sole remnant of their sway.

32 collocations for  glimmers