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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

Glimmer like a star in autumn’s hazy night.
—William Cullen Bryant

Glimmers … like starry twinklers that momently break
Through the rifts of the gathering tempest’s rack.
—Joseph Rodman Drake

Glimmering, like the balance-pan
That weighs its guinea as he weighs his man.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Glimmer, like the last flicker of a night-light.
—Victor Hugo

Glimmer like a coral grove.
—Walter Malone

Glimmer like a butterfly.
—Don Marquis

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

Tresses glimmering and gleaming like glad waters running over shelving shallows, rimmed with clover.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Glimmers like a meteor.
—Samuel Rogers

Glimmered like fire.
—Francis S. Saltus

He glimmered apart
In solemn gloom
Like a dying lamp in a haunted tomb.
—Richard H. Stoddard

Glimmered through the misty sphere like moonlit marble.
—Bayard Taylor

Glimmered like a faint, vanishing tinge of blood on snow.
—Henry Van Dyke

Glimmered like a pine tree dimly viewed
Through Alpine vapors.
—William Wordsworth