Word: glinted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present she has much to say. She describes the diamond mines, the adventurers who first saw the glint of a hard fire under the dark continent, the blacks who sweat, fight and struggle to harvest the pebbles of these arid orchards. Author Millin knows about the golddiggers too, their labor unions, Johannesburg where the great companies have their offices and where, when the city is hushed at night, ftiere is still audible the pounding of battery stamps that crush the ore for gold...
...smooth bronze of the cannon, the other, its strength in repose for the moment, holding the sword-scabbard lightly at his thigh. Only Titian could have painted the deep crimson velvet of the doublet, the soft fur of the collar, the liquid blue of the sapphire, the glint of the pendant pearl on his chest. Surely our picture is one of the great achievements...
...brown, purple mountains, drops gently into a valley, slides toward the Pacific. The air becomes mysteriously, sensually warm. Orange groves, green and gold, line the way. Umbrellas are stuffed under berths. Overcoats are donated to porters. Crutches are flung from car windows. Passengers stand and sing praise, a queer glint in their eyes. It is the air of Southern California...
...courses or his series or public lectures will long remember with what an unusual combination of objectivity and sympathy he dealt with the various representatives of Medieval thought. They were presented not as "ists" perambulating a pet "ism" but as men straining their eyes to catch a glint of the truth behind the mists that swirl about the human mind. Any lingering doubt as to the brightness of the so called "dark ages" in the minds of his hearers was completely, dispelled. As Professor Gilson often points out it is only possible to paste this label on the centuries following...
Frightened by the glint in Joe Jordan's eye, Mae Jordan sought work, found none for a child so inexperienced and anemic as herself. Desperate, she begged odd jobs of baby tending, dish washing, floor scrubbing from residents in the apartment. One November day she sought her father radiant: "Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz want me to 'do' their apartment every day for $10 a month...