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14 total sentences available.
And now I neared the gates, and thought my flight / achieved, when suddenly a noise we hear / of trampling feet, and, peering through the night, / my father cries, "Fly, son, the Greeks are near; / they come, I see the glint of shield and spear, / fierce foes in front and flashing arms behind."
Source: tatoeba (6880318)
She was a fine tall woman, black and quick and fierce, with a proud way of carrying her head, and a glint from her eye like a spark from a flint.
Source: tatoeba (6957959)
I saw the glint of metal as he raised the gun.
Source: wiktionary
To be plunged straight into the old nut and bolt shop, as was the writer's experience, during a spell of cloudless June Weather was a real hardship, and the mind kept flitting back to the glint of blue water under willow trees and the click of ball on bat on a quiet spacious greensward.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include aflicker, afterglow, air glow, be bright, beacon.
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