a-glimmering

Giving consumers the choice of an efficient, nonprofit, government-run insurance plan would have moved us toward real cost control, but that option has gone a-glimmering.

Digging In 2009

That little piece of fiction went a-glimmering in June, when three Bundeswehr soldiers were killed near Kunduz in northern Afghanistan.

Conn Hallinan: Afghanistan: What are These People Thinking? 2009

Nice how that worked out for the Democrats; let the GOP tangle ass with each other and meanwhile the big fat campaign boost Karl Rove was hoping to get by painting the Democrats as obstructionists goes a-glimmering ...

September 2006 2006

On top of that, the first chance to get another Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court went a-glimmering when the president nominated his personal lawyer whom no one knows anything about other than she's in Alberto Gonzales 'old office in the West Wing.

October 2005 2005

First thing was to delist links to some blogs that have gone a-glimmering.

June 2004 2004

Their moment of glory in the impeachment of Bill Clinton went a-glimmering when the news came out that they had their own little pecadillos.

October 2004 2004

Louis would refuse, and the alliance would go a-glimmering.

The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963

I began to fear that at last they had found something that I could do without damaging anything, and my visions of the U.S.A. went a-glimmering.

A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes

His vision of little dinners, of drives together, of impromptu luncheons, of a steady siege in which the sheer warmth of that passion in him should force capitulation to his love -- all those pleasant dreams went a-glimmering.

Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

You ought to be ashamed to round me up with something scientific and materialistic every time I go a-glimmering.

Her father`s daughter 1921