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glister

[glis-ter] / ˈglɪs tər /


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Brian Sewell, enemy of conceptualism and all things contemporary, once wrote, "They offer nothing but a moment's glister and demand no contemplation."

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2013

United head for Coventry, where they hope to glister in front of Gould.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2013

But those verses glister, still, if you only give them a chance, their fathomless shadows a mystery, and a balm.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012

He looked hopefully at Bogert, who was still blandly neat and whose inner tension was perhaps betrayed only by the trace of glister at his temples.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

"It be a mighty risk I be a-runnin'"—the old, seamed face was of a deadly pallor and was beginning to glister with a cold sweat.

From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Douglas Duer




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