Read full poem →Her maiden babe, a double April old, 95
Aglaia slept. We sat: the Lady glanced :
Then Florian, but no livelier than the dame
Dictionary Entry
To look briefly (at something).
In a Sentence
“She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
over glancedaround glanceddown glancedback glancedtoward glancedglanced manglanced eyesglanced barely
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Poetry examples for “glanced”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Ijust glanced at him without comment and he walked off. Wagner’s little
graduation speech only made me that much bigger with the guys. They
Read full poem →Man, strange composite blend of brute and god,
Pushed on, nor backward glanced where last he trod.
He seemed to mount a misty ladder flung
Read full poem →Native to melody and light,
And now and then toward me glanced,
Pleased, as I hoped, to please my sight.
Read full poem →"Take it," I said, and held it out to her.
While the hilt glanced within my trembling hold ;
" Take it and keep it for my sake," I said.
Read full poem →The hand that took each dancer soon or late.
Some analyzed themselves, some only glanced,
Some stared and paled and then more madly danced.
Read full poem →There he stood as one who dreamed;
And the red light glanced and gleamed
On the armor that he wore;
Read full poem →His eye glanced at the white-nosed bee;
He knew those children of the Spring:
Read full poem →Stanza lxxx. "Loud was the lightsome tumult on the shore,"--
Stanza lxxxi. "Glanced many a light Caique along the foam,"--
Stanza lxxxii. "But, midst the throng' in merry masquerade,"--
Read full poem →One scratched his hairy thigh, while t'other sighed
And glanced away. I saw they liked me less
Than when, on Epsom Downs, in cloudless weather,