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Glittered with allusions to Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and Jules Verne, Chloe’s journey is a compendium of every possible disaster, leavened with a Gilbert & Sullivan sensitivity.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2015

He drew aside his broidered vest, And there, like slumbering serpent's crest, The jewelled haft of a poinard bright, Glittered a moment on the sight.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

Death the divider Glittered cold and dark and deep Under banks of fear.

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John

David's stone from the beck Glittered its day.

From Perpetual Light : a memorial by Benét, William Rose

Rings decked his arms: about his waist The life-protecting mail was braced, And on the chieftain's forehead set Glittered his cap and coronet.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)