Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Glance (Verb)
Glances like one who expects a blow.
—Anonymous
Javelins glanced like leven-light on white mail-shirt.
—Arabian Nights
Glancing white, like streams in sunny valleys.
—Thomas Miller
Glancing like a sabre’s gleam.
—Ouida
Glanc’d like rays of glory.
—Allan Ramsay
Glance … as the glints of a thousand gems.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Glanced by like a star in a storm.
—George Herbert Sass
Glance and gleam like the green heights of sunset heaven.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Glancing like a dragon-fly.
—Alfred Tennyson