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  • One port framed Saturn at half phase, dayside pale gold and rich bands amidst the jewelry of its rings, night side wanly ashimmer with starlight upon clouds, as big to the sight as Earth over Luna.

    The Clique 2010

  • Ensconced in black satin, flaxen hair swept back, well-born cheekbones ashimmer, she had just about as much in common with your mother as The O. C.'s Kirsten Cohen did.

    OMFG! Henri Bendel Bash Attended by Gossip Girl Cast���and Gossip Girl Herself? 2008

  • She saw him plainer now, in his Volunteer green, quietly ashimmer, enthused still but muted, a trace fatigued, dazed even, and perhaps with a falter in his step on this earthly ground.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • She saw him plainer now, in his Volunteer green, quietly ashimmer, enthused still but muted, a trace fatigued, dazed even, and perhaps with a falter in his step on this earthly ground.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • CHAPTER TWO Destiny™s Song The Audience hall glittered as if it were filled with burning stars, ashimmer from gilt embroidery on fine robes, gems dripping from throats and fingers and wrists.

    The Irda Baker, Linda P. 1995

  • Low in the west, like thousands of evening stars melted into one, it cast shadows the length of Karl-Jorge Avenue and set the steel steeple of St. Joachim's ashimmer against an eastern sky purpling into dusk.

    Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

  • One port framed Saturn at half phase, dayside pale gold and rich bands amidst the jewelry of its rings, nightside wanly ashimmer with starlight and moonlight upon clouds, as big to the sight as Earth over Luna.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

  • The gridiron thing was of a peculiar complex design, glowing with such heat that the air for meters around it was all ashimmer.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • Next, as if given the eyes of angels, we see the greater globe white-hot and still collapsing, the lesser burnt-out and compressed though now ashimmer, whipping in seconds through their orbit.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

  • It lay below him, ashimmer in the summer sun, a panorama of green, light and dark of shade, with the silver ribbon of the Klimminchuck appearing and disappearing down its length.

    Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

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