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Definition of Glitters
1. glitter [v] - See also: glitter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glitters
Literary usage of Glitters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plays and Players by Laurence Hutton (1875)
"ALL THAT glitters." — " INGOMAR." — MR. FB CONWAY. "All that glistens is not ...
We reproduce this its first great cast: — " ALL THAT glitters is NOT GOLD. ..."
2. Come to the Secret Garden: Sufi Tales of Wisdom by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (1985)
"You can see all these glitters at night, but are they real lights? No, my
grandchildren, these are the glitters of creation. The sparkle they have is not ..."
3. Songs of Three Centuries by John Greenleaf Whittier (1890)
"THE gowan glitters on the sward, The lav'rock 's in the sky, And Collie on my
plaid keeps ward, And time is passing by. O, no! sad and slow, And lengthened ..."
4. Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated by Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922)
"Not all that glitters is gold. Let us not so easily lose our common sense—a box
of table sugar is not a box of table salt even if the two boxes are ..."
5. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"... had was of little avail, for Newport carried a shipload of the yellow stuff
to London, and found, to his chagrin, that all is not gold that glitters. ..."
6. The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of the past half by Charles Rogers (1855)
"THE GOWAN glitters ON THE SWARD. THE gowan glitters on the sward, The lav'rock
's in the sky, And collie on my plaid keeps ward, And time is passing by. ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... of metal cast into shapes tu form glitters and throats ; perhaps the best
arrangement is the "patent sill or water bar" (fig. 99), as now1 manufactured ..."
8. Plays and Players by Laurence Hutton (1875)
"ALL THAT glitters." — " INGOMAR." — MR. FB CONWAY. "All that glistens is not ...
We reproduce this its first great cast: — " ALL THAT glitters is NOT GOLD. ..."
9. Come to the Secret Garden: Sufi Tales of Wisdom by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (1985)
"You can see all these glitters at night, but are they real lights? No, my
grandchildren, these are the glitters of creation. The sparkle they have is not ..."
10. Songs of Three Centuries by John Greenleaf Whittier (1890)
"THE gowan glitters on the sward, The lav'rock 's in the sky, And Collie on my
plaid keeps ward, And time is passing by. O, no! sad and slow, And lengthened ..."
11. Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated by Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922)
"Not all that glitters is gold. Let us not so easily lose our common sense—a box
of table sugar is not a box of table salt even if the two boxes are ..."
12. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"... had was of little avail, for Newport carried a shipload of the yellow stuff
to London, and found, to his chagrin, that all is not gold that glitters. ..."
13. The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of the past half by Charles Rogers (1855)
"THE GOWAN glitters ON THE SWARD. THE gowan glitters on the sward, The lav'rock
's in the sky, And collie on my plaid keeps ward, And time is passing by. ..."
14. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... of metal cast into shapes tu form glitters and throats ; perhaps the best
arrangement is the "patent sill or water bar" (fig. 99), as now1 manufactured ..."
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