Glimmer Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Glimmer


Glimmering faintly like the rack O’ the moon in her own light cast back. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1
Glimmer like a star in autumn’s hazy night. —William Cullen Bryant	2
Glimmers … like starry twinklers that momently break Through the rifts of the gathering tempest’s rack. —Joseph Rodman Drake	3
Glimmering, like the balance-pan That weighs its guinea as he weighs his man. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	4
Glimmer, like the last flicker of a night-light. —Victor Hugo	5
Glimmer like a coral grove. —Walter Malone	6
Glimmer like a butterfly. —Don Marquis	7
The firelight glimmers upon the walls of your cherished home, like the Vestal fire of red upon the figures of adoring angels, or like the flame of Hebrew sacrifice, whose incense bore hearts to Heaven. —Donald G. Mitchell	8
Tresses glimmering and gleaming like glad waters running over shelving shallows, rimmed with clover. —James Whitcomb Riley	9
Glimmers like a meteor. —Samuel Rogers	10
Glimmered like fire. —Francis S. Saltus	11
He glimmered apart In solemn gloom Like a dying lamp in a haunted tomb. —Richard H. Stoddard	12
Glimmered through the misty sphere like moonlit marble. —Bayard Taylor	13
Glimmered like a faint, vanishing tinge of blood on snow. —Henry Van Dyke	14
Glimmered like a pine tree dimly viewed Through Alpine vapors. —William Wordsworth	15