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- noun Plural form of
glister .
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Examples
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He sparkles and glisters like white – heated iron.
Peer Gynt 2008
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He sparkles and glisters like white – heated iron.
Peer Gynt 2008
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Why didn't he write "Not all that glisters is gold"?
Archive 2006-10-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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April 29th, 2006 at 12:23 pm mary: things are not always what they seem, sour milk masquerades as cream, all that glisters is not gold…
Firedoglake » The Heckuva Job Bushie and GOP Weekend Round-Up 2006
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"All that glisters is not gold," Shakespeare prudently penned in old English prose.
Kowalski's Tiffany Sees Profit Lose Its Shine ts Shine Kowalski's Tiffany Sees Profit Lose Its Shine 2006
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The argument that it's not usually brings up Shakespeare's "All that glisters is not gold."
Archive 2006-10-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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All that glisters is not Goldfish posted by Devil's Kitchen at 9/10/2005 02:58:00 PM
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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All that glisters is not Goldfish posted by Devil's Kitchen at 9/10/2005 02:58:00 PM
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It is an old proverb and a true one, all is not gold that glisters.
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Mirevaux, and good jovial company withal, and thought to have set himself to the study of physic; but he considered that that calling was too troublesome and melancholic, and that physicians did smell of glisters like old devils.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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