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Definition of Glinty
1. glittering [adj GLINTIER, GLINTIEST]
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Literary usage of Glinty
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1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"... recently a fine specimen, which certainly did bloom at Christmas, but only
the second blossoming in May was fertile. Called also Holy Thorn. glinty ..."
2. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"glinty [glun-tee], vi To glisten ; to sparkle. I thort I zeed something glinty,
and there sure enough I ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"glinty, I know you 're a poor, lone, widdy woman, and the bit and the sup for
the childer is hard to get, and you 're welcome to three o' my pigs, ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"My eyc^ is glinty yet. I dinna ken about Broon Hilda, but if she liket a storm,
I like her." " She and her sisters rode upon the storm," said Izaak ..."
5. The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore (1906)
"Going over to her cottage, he was told by her mother, a glinty-eyed, shrewd
looking, hard featured woman — that Samantha was " mighty nigh dead. ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"... recently a fine specimen, which certainly did bloom at Christmas, but only
the second blossoming in May was fertile. Called also Holy Thorn. glinty ..."
7. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"glinty [glun-tee], vi To glisten ; to sparkle. I thort I zeed something glinty,
and there sure enough I ..."
8. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"glinty, I know you 're a poor, lone, widdy woman, and the bit and the sup for
the childer is hard to get, and you 're welcome to three o' my pigs, ..."
9. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"My eyc^ is glinty yet. I dinna ken about Broon Hilda, but if she liket a storm,
I like her." " She and her sisters rode upon the storm," said Izaak ..."
10. The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore (1906)
"Going over to her cottage, he was told by her mother, a glinty-eyed, shrewd
looking, hard featured woman — that Samantha was " mighty nigh dead. ..."
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