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''She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.''
(RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer)
To graze at a surface.
To sparkle.
''The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.''
(RQ:Tennyson In Memoria)
- From art, from nature, from the schools, / Let random influences glance, / Like light in many a shivered lance, / That breaks about the dappled pools.
To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
(RQ:Macaulay Virginia)
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
*(RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
1833, (w), ''The Mortal Immortal''
- I started — I dropped the glass — the fluid flamed and glanced along the floor, while I felt Cornelius's gripe at my throat, as he shrieked aloud, "Wretch! you have destroyed the labour of my life!"
(quote-journal)
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with ''at''.
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)
(RQ:Swift Works)
(RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)
A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.
(RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew)
(quote-text)|title=The House Behind the Cedars|chapter=I|passage=Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer's office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.
(quote-book)|title=(w)| chapter=1| passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
A deflection.
A sudden flash of light or splendour.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)
An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
c. 1782, (w), ''The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk''
- How fleet is a glance of the mind.
Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
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