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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

On the saddle they placed her, with hearts full of care, Glittered like the spun gold her beautiful hair.

From The Tale of Brynild, and King Valdemar and his Sister Two Ballads by Wise, Thomas James

The moon Glittered in troubled ripples, they had come Under the shadow of the trees, the dark Goaded Uhila's soul anew, his blood, Blazing with conflict, gave him mad-man's strength And devil's skill.

From The Rose of Dawn A Tale of the South Sea by La Farge, John

As I looked, the eye In the red west sank lower, till half quenched Behind the upland, then a shred of light Glittered and vanished, and the sky was bare.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

A stately crown   Of trees enringed the upper headland brown, And reedy pools, wherein the moor-hen dives, Glittered and gleamed.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean