ashimmer
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- Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
- 1875, Charles F. Deems, “Relations of the University to Religion” in Dedication and Inauguration of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, p. 65,[1]
- […] each great wing is like an unmeasured milky-way, ashimmer with the mystic splendor of all stars.
- 1898, Henry Noel Brailsford, chapter 11, in The Broom of the War-God,[2], London: Heinemann, page 130:
- The sun had set the peak of Olympus all ashimmer.
- 1941, Rachel Carson, Under the Sea-Wind[3], New York: Oxford University Press, published 1952, Book 2, Chapter 12:
- The solitary vessel was the only moving thing on the sea that morning when the east turned gray and the black water came ashimmer with silver light.
- 1875, Charles F. Deems, “Relations of the University to Religion” in Dedication and Inauguration of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, p. 65,[1]