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    shimmer


    shimmered


    shimmering


    shimmers


    1. He should be awake by now, it was fully light and Kortrax would coagulate out of the orange shimmer on the horizon any minute


    2. He never did wake either of the girls for another turn at watch and woke up before either one of them as the turquoise glimmer began to shimmer on the horizon


    3. Ted staggers backwards, ramming the base of his spine against the corner of the fridge, rocking the lamp, making Alex shimmer


    4. He can see the shimmer of scales reflecting sunlight a fathom beneath his feet


    5. Glowing curls danced upon his face as she looked down at him, the shimmer in her grey and white eyes mesmerizing


    6. As he looked, he saw his present reflection suddenly shimmer and shift


    7. Pamela twirled around, watching the shimmer in the


    8. You can find lip colors already infused with glitter and shimmer or you can layer on your regular lipstick and then top it with a layer of gloss with glitter speckles in them


    9. If you plan on using glitter for some shimmer on your eyes then avoid glitter that comes in huge chunks


    10. The north face of the compound appeared to shimmer as if it could not hold together any structural integrity; a ghost of a building trying to be solid

    11. As these thoughts flooded the sick badger's mind, the outline of the trees began to waver and shimmer at the edges of his vision


    12. Even as she gazed at him, wonderstruck, there was a shimmer, a soft mist of blue hovered before the great creature, and slowly the animal vanished from her sight


    13. A shadowy bubble seemed to shimmer around them for a while, before it turned completely transparent


    14. As the stars shimmer across the ocean in the night


    15. and a shimmer of hope lit her eyes


    16. Some mumbled to themselves and stared into the glass show cases that contained a fine collection of stuffed birds while others perched themselves on the thick window sills and watched the late afternoon sun shimmer across the light green of new leaves


    17. Just as the snow-raven beats his great white flight to the earth, a shimmer of green flies out and circles the dogs


    18. Half bent over, he turned towards where she lay, a mere shimmer on the soft ground


    19. The illusory window they faced across sixty meters of open air and the shimmer of the Boundary was only slightly larger than the one they looked out of, but within it was the biggest room any there had ever seen


    20. Across one end of the clearing was the shimmer of Wards that appeared to be similar in style to the Sylvan Boundary

    21. There was one more moment to enjoy the coppery colors of her glassy carapace and the rainbow shimmer of her transparent wings


    22. Moshe reined in his horse to better watch the shimmer as it slowly dissolved into the distance


    23. The sun will shimmer


    24. The colours around it did not meld with its strange shimmer but formed an unbroken frame that held it in place


    25. The white shimmer of the raven and the heat of the mind-cane told him that


    26. Simon could see the glint of his teeth in the shimmer of moonlight through the window


    27. He stared after it, watching the shimmer of its wings fade into the distance, and it was then that he knew


    28. The illusory window they faced across two hundred feet of open air and the shimmer of the Boundary was only slightly larger than the one they looked out of, but within it was the biggest room any there had ever seen


    29. Shdows moved among the many-colored beacons, caused them to dance and shimmer


    30. Flautdam contained a shimmer like New Orleans generation

    31. A shimmer of relief washes over


    32. “See the reflections of your guilt shimmer on the edge of my blades


    33. He recoiled with a curse, his sword leaping into his hand with a broad shimmer of blue steel


    34. The boy pointed north to the distant mountains and they could see a faint shimmer as the sun glinted off a shiny object


    35. Above, I could see through the star stone that was my new eye, the shimmer of Luke’s protection shield as it sparkled when anything touched it


    36. The whole plain shook to the rumbling avalanche of hoofs, and the shimmer of gold and steel dazzled the watchers on the towers of Shamar


    37. Confirmation of the war came when the army of Poitain, ten thousand strong, marched through the southern passes with waving banners and shimmer of steel


    38. But the view was partially obscured by the shimmer of the cooking fire, and it was only when the man knelt up and turned his partner over that Siri could see that it was in fact two naked older women tied back to back


    39. to have a shimmer to his leaves that were attached like skin to its body


    40. I caught a shimmer of something shiny in his hand

    41. Some squirrels were observing the huge shimmer in a patch of the woods in central park, when a portal ripped open with a blast of force that sent them running and squeaking


    42. Surprisingly Joey didn’t see her sweating that much, but her breath was actually coming out in a shimmer like heat


    43. I also saw a third entity—a shimmer around his form—watching the two of them from a time/distance I didn’t understand, nor did I feel the need to


    44. By the time the hondo-hondos had flown crankily into the tall trees around the mill, the daylight poured white hot out of the celestial blast furnace into the liquid blue heaven and bathed everything below in a transparent shimmer of energy


    45. There was already a shimmer of heat in the air above and the stones below


    46. They slid behind the shimmer of glass and he doubled up,


    47. He grunted as she changed into a moonlit shape, crouching before the faint shimmer


    48. But the shimmer was shimmering more shimmery


    49. Then she spied something shimmer over his head


    50. A shimmer from sun hitting metal, up in the windows of a dying, ashy skyscraper































    1. The golden cloth shimmered in the fire light


    2. Unlike her mother, a poor and feeble creature tied to the old days, a woman who shimmered like a pallid ghost among the ruins of their estates in the mountains, a woman who wore the same, disgustingly stained gown throughout her long and decrepit life, this Countess had broken with those dusty traditions


    3. Hot metal tracks shimmered, giving back the heat absorbed during the long sultry day, groaning to themselves as the thermal stresses wrenched at their very fabric


    4. The wagon shimmered and disappeared, just as


    5. space between the centre stones shimmered, and a


    6. shimmered with light—but not anymore


    7. mountains surrounding us shimmered in the reflections of


    8. Opposite the foot of the bed, a gold and green tapestry shimmered with a hue of blue, while a man, devoid of hair, stepped through it


    9. His hair no longer shimmered, but seemed dull and yellow, the color of stale urine


    10. The orange stains on his lips shimmered as though covered in a layer of oil

    11. And his body shimmered in the heat haze that boiled off him as he walked


    12. They shimmered, appearing in a haze at the circular stairway to this world's Rift


    13. The hot air shimmered across the glassy water


    14. His body shimmered with white light


    15. Heat waves shimmered as the air bounced off the surfaces of the buildings in the distance


    16. But just as soon as he had, the image shimmered and dissipated


    17. Rays of the sun shimmered atop the road, making dancing ghost-like images


    18. As the demons stepped back, bright lights shimmered up to hold the captives within the circles’ confines


    19. The bodice shimmered with the gold-coated plastic and sequins of a dozen cat brooches she’d collected


    20. The house looked so far away as it shimmered in heat waves

    21. I reached for my flak and flung it loosely around my body, not bothering to Velcro it together, and not caring to snap the chin strap on my helmet, as dust from 3 more explosions shimmered through the streaks of sunlight that darted across the room from small holes or cracks in the upper portion of the concrete block wall, near the ceiling


    22. The air in front of him shimmered, and the bolt bounced off, as if it had hit metal


    23. Kay turned, her heart aching, staring out at the rolling sea, at the movement of waves beneath the mother of pearl moon as it shimmered into life in the onyx sky


    24. A few moments later he gasped in horror as the scene shimmered into view before his eyes


    25. A hint of a twinkle shimmered in Em’s gaze, and together they moved their way into Em’s bedroom


    26. The sun blazed down from a clear blue sky and a heat-haze shimmered on the horizon


    27. They shimmered back at him with a comforting brightness that cut to his innermost core


    28. At his waist shimmered a silver belt buckle in the shape of the horns of a steer and his skin-tight jeans were tucked into boots with high heels and pointed toes


    29. Its feathers, a light brown, shimmered like molasses, except on its chest, where the sunlight reflected from the whiteness with such brightness that it might blind those who looked upon it


    30. It shimmered there, still warm, still smelling vaguely of her

    31. In the background, she found the green hills that shimmered in the first light of the day


    32. Something shimmered in his hand as it caught the glow from a candle


    33. The moon caught his gaze and filled it with sparks and like the water in the stream, it shimmered with a thousand stars


    34. There, where Marian had stood, the white Light still shimmered and tempted


    35. She still held his gaze, so close that the all too blue shimmered out into a glittering, light blue ocean


    36. The contours shimmered, but she recognized them in spite


    37. The tiny spring shimmered and dimpled under its fringe of ferns


    38. Hers was a beautiful pool of color that shimmered constantly, but I feared what she saw in mine


    39. Exploration’s head shimmered with trickling sweat, his


    40. This night it rang in the tops of the trees and shimmered among the stars

    41. A sound like chimes shimmered in the air before the pieces of our protective field faded like mist


    42. Beyond the fields, homes and outhouses shimmered into view


    43. It shimmered in waves and tinkled delicately as it was moved by the barely-discernible breeze


    44. Looking ahead, Moshe became aware that a slim edge of the solar disc as it first appeared over the eastern horizon was reflecting off something that shimmered in the early dawn haze


    45. Colorful lights shimmered beautifully


    46. Gradually, the trees and the bracken shimmered into view and she could smell the dankness of grasses and wood


    47. And still the cane-words sparked and shimmered their brief fire into the air


    48. over the eastern horizon was reflecting off something that shimmered in the early dawn haze


    49. At first, they shimmered at the corner of his vision, but soon he could look at them directly and trace their shapes in his mind


    50. As the gravel hit them, instead of causing pain or falling back to the earth, the skin of the animals simply shimmered and absorbed his feeble weapon, pulsating more wildly in the thin dawn light









































    1. “If the setting of the cosmic vortex finds you here, there will be no turning back for you,” announced Arion sadly, while we were standing by the shore of a shimmering turquoise pool


    2. Instead of answering a channel and giving a location, she stepped into his office, wearing a very stylish shimmering black suitcoat with a generously padded white fur collar that continued down the front


    3. She had snug shimmering suitpants under it with matching fur around the ankles


    4. apparent than in London’s shimmering streets of gold, where the


    5. ” She stood up, blinked a shimmering club jersey from the Yakhan onto herself


    6. There was a shimmering, and there they stood before Sun Palace


    7. It reminded her of a Christmas card, one with the shimmering stuff on it


    8. When they emerged on the other side, greeted by towering purple and red sandstone cliffs, plunging over one was a shimmering blue ribbon of water, into a motionless pond below


    9. There, shimmering in the last rays of reflected sunlight and the first silvery glow of the rising moon was the river and the lake, framed by the shoulders of their little valley as if it were a scene painted by Bierstadt


    10. His thin elven fingers reached out, penetrating the shimmering blue shield

    11. Wrapping both hands around “Hell’s Bane’s” handle, he hoisted the shimmering brick of crystal to his shoulder and continued, “To be sure, our ancestors had a plan


    12. His flesh met the wood, and shimmering beneath a haze of blue, the door creaked open


    13. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw a gray robe appear, flying through the air while covered in a shimmering layer of blue


    14. A falling star shimmering faintly in a hue of blue and what appeared to be


    15. A single, shimmering blue eye peeked in, then, reluctantly, a white robed figure came into the room


    16. They all wore long ceremonial robes of shimmering maroons and golds, some purples and highlights when the sun caught it


    17. Shimmering axes of blue-tinged steel rested on their stocky shoulders


    18. The present soon fell away from his sight, shimmering and melting into the busy and bright morning of all those weeks ago


    19. The short man with honey-blond hair met the tall Nord just outside the city walls with a fresh stallion, and eagerly pocketed the shimmering coins in return


    20. She slowly looked around her side to what the others couldn't take their eyes off of---she had a tail! Running along the upper side of her new appendage were what appeared to be shimmering scales—like what dragon-skin was supposed to be

    21. Yet this wasn't a mere lass from the highlands, or the Lascorii Captain; this was a shimmering and powerful dragon-cat---bane of the Naud and Naradin in the Spur


    22. The sun lit the lingering darkness into a golden, shimmering mosaic


    23. At full magnification he could see space was distorting, stars had a kind of shimmering effect as if seen through water


    24. ” Psyche then moved to Alex’s bedside, standing regally, her blonde hair shimmering


    25. Glen’s green eyes gazed on Evans’s golden hair, the early morning light from the window shimmering off the tresses


    26. When he looked, he knew exactly what this was: the watery effect shimmering over them before they vanished to reappear in the state they had been tens of millions of years earlier


    27. There was a peculiar translucent white shimmering around him, like a morphogenic aura; this must be some kind of deflector field


    28. She stepped gracefully out of her clothing and sauntered up to Sebastian, her skin shimmering in the early afternoon sun from the windows


    29. Striding along in the shimmering sun beating down on the road, I stepped in a crevice cut in the stone


    30. came to be his favorite dress, the blue chiffon, with sparkling rhinestones shimmering down her back

    31. It was worth it all!” Janice pressed her chubby hand over the shimmering jewels around her


    32. The rest of the small crowd in the room were Alit’aren and Ael Tarael, the men in their black coats and the women in bright silks with shimmering embroidery


    33. Before the two men a shimmering light hovered at face height


    34. ” Daltrez spoke slowly, and then the shimmering light faded


    35. Then shaking her head, she looked through the windscreen at the dark shapes of the night shimmering through her tears, knowing that she hadn’t meant it


    36. Grey began shaking his head, the rolls of fat down his flanks shimmering in response


    37. The stump was full of rainwater and the reflection shimmering in its depths fascinated him


    38. Urgent legs scurried back and forth across Darkburst's snout as the spiders wove their webs, building a net of shimmering fibres around his mouth and nose


    39. But Skelda's prodding insistence shattered the shimmering image and the Preceptor turned away from the roots


    40. After falling into his usual trance, where he stood amongst the familiar pathways, Brock witnessed a shimmering shadow emerging from the far recesses of his psyche

    41. It was beyond the shimmering lake where the stars fell to the earth


    42. Reese gave a low groan, and then he was pressed down against her length, kissing her, holding her against him, and it seemed that time whirled and slowed and created a shimmering sphere around them which would last an eternity


    43. Slowly crossing the chamber, the sow settled herself on the leaves, still very much on edge, her nervousness apparent in the shimmering white guard hairs that quivered on the tips of her ears


    44. Standing over the shimmering pool, Soffen stared down into its depths, shocked at how thin she had become


    45. The disc hovered in the air for a moment, then tilted sharply, presenting its circular face to her, its mid-section flashing and shimmering as it expanded outwards towards its circumference


    46. It shone back up at him like a single large shimmering eye


    47. For some reason the shimmering light brought with it cubhood memories of times spent alone in his sleeping chamber, when he'd been too frightened to stretch out his paw from his bed of leaves, in case some hidden monster might grab it


    48. Thesa entered the tunnel, the shimmering light emanating from his still sodden fur reflecting dully from the walls around him


    49. Thesa, rock still, unmoving, the air about him shimmering with cold, his black eyes, almost invisible in the darkness, two pin-pricks of light reflecting the phosphates covering his body, content in the knowledge that he was here to fulfil his destiny


    50. When he finally emerged a short time later, covered in cobwebs, a large dull-coloured spider dangling from the peak of his cloth-cap on a shimmering piece of silk, I could see the anger on his face










































    1. a swarm of people converged on a giant evergreen tree that was full of shimmers


    2. shimmers within your heart and mind


    3. A tricolor treasure who shimmers in her pale


    4. If Levi was a vampire, had he been attacked by one of my brother’s or their gang? Did that mean the jock was on my side? The idea tantalised me sending shimmers all down my body until the ends of my toes


    5. The morning around him shimmers and he blinks to clear his vision


    6. Simon can see shimmers of yellow and lilac dancing over the skin of her arm down to his, and through his blood into his heart


    7. Under their feet, shimmers of reeds and grass which should never exist on a mountain rose up and disappeared almost at once, over and over again


    8. Before his companion can object, Johan pulls him through the rock, which shimmers like a rainbow, and into the murky darkness


    9. The mind-cane shimmers in the light of the sun, and Johan hears the wild humming of music


    10. The other diverges sharply, blinks and shimmers uncertainly before fading out to join the countless millions of other 'might have beens

    11. When they flower, the air shimmers with screeching flocks of lorikeets and other nectar-eaters; in between it"s a zoological dessert


    12. The dream about Lucas still shimmers in my head and makes me crave for more


    13. The force field between them shimmers as if more power has been fed into it


    14. They watched as the Captain and the rest of his crew vanished into shimmers of light


    15. A high-pitched melody began to bombard her ears as outside shimmers of gold swirled around her


    16. As I looked across the narrow valley, I watched as the shimmers of the last heat escaped from the hot sand and sparse grass beneath it, the sun in its final stages of the day, but I was listening, awaiting instructions


    17. A polished gold badge with a raised star shimmers over his strong heart


    18. The phrase Recruit Class 4319 shimmers between the crests


    19. A number shimmers above the shelter: 100


    20. A countdown clock shimmers above Station Control and Captain Fallsten’s voice echoes through the intercoms

    21. A list of files shimmers in the air, files with names like Treatises and Records and Stats and Daily Logs and Belvun and Narviid


    22. ally formed a soft, pliable substance that shimmers like the sun


    23. the river shimmers, turns to stars,


    24. The air between it and Loki shimmers with heat


    25. For a moment the air between them shimmers


    26. When you get at believing in that there is no God but Al'lah and become one of those who see that God's Hand controls the movement of all universe, when your spirit becomes immersed in this viewing and you become witnessing that no winds blow, no clouds cover the sky or stick together, no rains flow, no lightning flashes or shimmers, no thunder resounds, no sea runs high and low with restless waves, no water of river flows in constant flax, no volcano breaks out angrily, no flood streams in force and intension, no earthquake shakes the land making forgetful and heedless hearts tremble scared, no earth circulates in order to cause Night and Day and four seasons, no stars swim shining within systematic orbits: that is to say, if you become of those who witness that the universe with all its creatures is but one unit directed by a Hand of Wise and Peerless One and a Will of Cognizant and Omniscient One, according to your efforts, and your Daily-contemplations, and without Him even your hand does not move, your eye does not blink, your ear does not hear a sound or a noise, your heart does not beat pulsing between systole and diastole, your stomach does not secrete its gastric juice over the foods inside it, your liver does not store substances or secrete others according to a firm standards, your lungs do not expand and contract between inspiration and expiration, your blood does not flow in arteries and veins, the red corpuscles do not carry what they carry to and fro, the white corpuscles do not fight and struggle with microbes, the germs do not attack the body severely: I say, if you become sure of that by minding and spiritual witnessing, not by hearing from specialists or reading in volumes and books so that you become seeing that everything is controlled by God's Hand and that all people, notables or commoners, near or far, strong or weak, and even all the creatures, can not render you a benefit nor protect you from an evil, nor hurt you or cause any change in your state except by Al'lah's Leave, there; you will enter the fort of straightness and will never exceed God's bounds


    27. was a better understanding of how far the mind can go before it shimmers out


    28. She is invisible to those around him, but in Loki’s eyes she shimmers and glows, as does the arrow protruding from her back


    29. It eventually formed a soft, pliable substance that shimmers like the sun rising or setting over an ocean of water as it slowly gives way to the darkness of moonlight


    30. The other diverges sharply, blinks and shimmers uncertainly

    31. Where the humming-bird shimmers, where the neck of the long-lived


    32. But spring has begun transforming the ice-ravaged landscape, pushing buds from skeletal limbs, and a thin carpet of grass shimmers in the moonlight


    33. And 66 goes on over the terrible desert, where the distance shimmers and the black center mountains hang unbearably in the distance


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    Synonyms for "shimmer"

    play shimmer gleam glimmer shine glow light flare blaze lustre gloss jiggle wiggle

    "shimmer" definitions

    a weak and tremulous light


    shine with a weak or fitful light


    give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk