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- adjective Obsolete form of
glistering .
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Examples
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And therfore he that conceiueth, reioyce in her vncertayne state, is like to him that in his slombring dreame, doth imagine he hath founde a perelesse iewell, of price inestimable, beset with the glistring Diamonde: and perfectly awaked, knoweth he hath none such.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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And +hurld+ his glistring beames through gloomy aire.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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There is another Rock Looks like a Chaire of State wth ye Canopy and all glistring like diamonds or starrs; thus does all ye sides of the Rock all shine Like Diamonds.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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I was as farre as ye Queen of Scotts pillar, wch is a Large white stone, and ye top hangs over your head Like a Cannopy all great white Stones and in spires or Large jceickles and glistring as the other.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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And hurld his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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All sowd with glistring stars more thicke then grasse,
Fowre Hymnes 1596
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6 In glistring gold, and peerelesse pretious stone:
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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4.94.10: Not euery glistring geues the golde, that gredy folke desire:
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