Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Glimmer
Glimmering faintly like the rack
O’ the moon in her own light cast back.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Glimmer like a star in autumn’s hazy night.
—William Cullen Bryant
Glimmers … like starry twinklers that momently break
Through the rifts of the gathering tempest’s rack.
—Joseph Rodman Drake
Glimmering, like the balance-pan
That weighs its guinea as he weighs his man.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Glimmer, like the last flicker of a night-light.
—Victor Hugo
Glimmer like a coral grove.
—Walter Malone
Glimmer like a butterfly.
—Don Marquis
The firelight glimmers upon the walls of your cherished home, like the Vestal fire of red upon the figures of adoring angels, or like the flame of Hebrew sacrifice, whose incense bore hearts to Heaven.
—Donald G. Mitchell
Tresses glimmering and gleaming like glad waters running over shelving shallows, rimmed with clover.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Glimmers like a meteor.
—Samuel Rogers
Glimmered like fire.
—Francis S. Saltus
He glimmered apart
In solemn gloom
Like a dying lamp in a haunted tomb.
—Richard H. Stoddard
Glimmered through the misty sphere like moonlit marble.
—Bayard Taylor
Glimmered like a faint, vanishing tinge of blood on snow.
—Henry Van Dyke
Glimmered like a pine tree dimly viewed
Through Alpine vapors.
—William Wordsworth