1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother, Act V, in The New English Theatre, London: J. Rivington & Sons, 1776, Volume 6, p. 45, A ghastly figure, full of gaping wounds, His eyes aglare, his hair all stiff with blood,
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Aglare
//əˈɡlɛə//
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1728, James Ralph, “The Muses’ Address to the King: an Ode” in Miscellaneous Poems, London: W. Meadows et al., 1729, p. 4, So, when the providential eye of heav’n’s, Not seen to blaze With dreadful majesty aglare, And vengeance sleeps, mankind Pursues its darling joys, and mocks The pow’r divine […]
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Apodaca set fire to his ships, either in honest despair, or by orders from the Prince of Peace. At least, he would not let them fall into English hands. At three in the morning Port of Spain woke up, all aglare with the blaze six miles away to the north-west.
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His eye was aglare with hate, every glance a stab.
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