Glittered

Examples

• She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly, but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glittered, and then a drop fell. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Their eyes glittered through their tangle of hair, their naked nostrils were full of shadow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Eliza turned to the glass, and the scissors glittered as one long lock after another was detached from her head. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She had a white cloth over her face, said I, but her eyes glittered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Thomasin's cheek was flushed to a pitch far beyond that which it had reached before her troubles, and her eyes glittered. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They had no depth or change; they glittered, and they opened and shut. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Her eyes glittered, her colour was deepened on cheek and lip. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I sought the hills; a west wind swept them, and the stars glittered above. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Wonderful scarfs, laces, and jewels glittered about her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• His eyes glittered with satisfaction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In returning she half opened a drawer, and took from it something that glittered clear and keen in her hand. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Editor: Melinda