In the lower valleys the snow had vanished, and the rich green carpet of the earth shimmered in the clear sunlight.
A surge of purest pleasure shimmered through him, for this was the second he had been awaiting.
A glacier shimmered in the Western Mountains, long and narrow like a white bird with wings outstretched.
A dry twig cracked, and in the clearing a pine stump shimmered with a greyish gleam.
The whole firmament was liquid with the light; it poured down like luminous rain, slid in cascades over the church domes, the tin roofs, the metallic palms, till the whole earth shimmered back to the skies.
Across his right arm, held gingerly away from him, thereshimmered jusis and pinas.
He jerked the frowsy wig from her head, and beneath was a cloud of disordered hair that shimmered in the sunlight.
Beside those enormous paws, where the air danced andshimmered in the brilliant glare, I saw the narrow flight of steps leading to the crypts below--the retreats for solitude.
Each time he murmured it, her face shimmered before him, suffusing the foul wall with a golden radiance.
She shimmered a moment from the threshold, and the two in the sitting-room thought together that they had never seen her so radiantly lovely.
Carlisle continued to look at his downcast face, with the translucent eyes, and as she looked, the strangest thought shimmered through her, with a turning of the heart new in her experience.
A frozen lake shimmered at the edge of the track and then, with a harsh uproar, the train plunged into the shadow of a cliff.
The sombre foliage of yew and box and ilex contrasted strangely with the pale glow of the young grass, sloping in emerald tinted terraces down to where the lake shimmered through the trees.
His white garb shimmered in the moonlight with more life in its purity than there was in his face.
Towards the south a broad loop of the river closed the valley, while all around on the misty hills shimmered the giants of the forest, mysterious and silent.
The tramping of thousands of steeds smote the bright air; shields and surcoats shone and shimmered under the sun-fraught Roman sky.
All about him the garden glistened in the dawn; the cypresses shimmered with dew.
It is not often really hot on the open waters of Lake Superior, but that day the sun glared down upon the little boat, and the distance shimmered with heat haze.
Before and around the boat, the lake shimmered with the reflected tints that glorified even the patched and dirty sail.
There, on a stubby pedestal, was revealed a gleaming sphere of crystal, a huge polished ball that shimmered a ghastly green against a background of jet.
It was the guard, Antazzo, and he was clothed from neck to ankles in a garment of bright metallic stuff that shimmered with shifting colors like those of a soap bubble.
She felt an aching melancholy; a mist hazed over her eyes; and the lights of the ballroom shimmered before her as if through water.
Between them lay the narrow old hymnal and the gilt figures, "1795" shimmered in the middle of the worn and shabby covers.
Light shimmered in her windows--the raspberry coloured light of red curtains which loose women delight in.
For the grey dress was cut with short sleeves and skirts, and displayed her trim strong legs clad in pink stockings of the same shade as the kerchief she wore round her shoulders, and that shimmered as she went.
Her feet were gathered under her on the one side, and she leaned on her bare arm, which showed out strong and round, tapered to a slim wrist, and shimmered in the fading light.
The September sunshine shimmered hotly across the open, and the young man's head swam.
Her gown was of some rich stuff that shimmered in the light of the candle she carried, and rustled musically as she walked.
Slender palm-trees covered with clusters of golden dates were seen in every direction, and the sunbeamsshimmered on the canals and ditches which conducted water from the Euphrates to all parts of the fields.
A thin metallic sound shimmered on the air, the clattering cadence of hoofs far away upon the high-road.
All about him the garden glistened in the dawn, the cypresses shimmered with dew, the pool was like a steel buckler on cloth of green.
Her hair shimmered loose about her in the sunlight like an amber veil.
The passage was open to the west, and a glare of sunlight shimmeredinto Mark's eyes.
Her clear radiance flooded the forest, shimmered on the unquiet surface of the river, and caused objects to be seen as through an azure gauze.
He looked up indifferently as Violet shimmered down on the divan beside him.
Out in the pond the glassy water creamed and shimmered in the hot sun, unrippled by the faintest breath of air.
THE LILAC SEA A cool wind took me by the hand And led me on beguilingly, Until before me, broad and bland, Shimmered the lilac sea.
Porfiry was constantly taking off his cap and crossing himself, now at the sight of the church, which shimmered afar off, now before the chapel, now before the wooden post to which a charity box was attached.
After yesterday's blizzard the air was frosty, and the snow shimmered and sparkled in the sun, so that Porfiry Vladimirych had to blink.
Toward the south where the Valley narrowed to the Bottle Neck and the Broken Bend went out, there shimmered and shone like a silver ribbon hung down the cliff the thin, long shower of Vestal's Veil fall.
Down the face of the Wall the Vestal's Veil shimmered and shone like a million miles of lace.
Ail the wide expanse of Lost Valley was still and sweet with dawn, smiling as if with a new and wondrous peace, the Vestal's Veil shimmered on the Rockface, the distant peaks above the Cañon Country cut the skies.
It had been carefully unpacked by the crew while we ate, and itshimmered in the electric lighted hold like a great bubble.
The moonlight shimmered on its rippled surface, like pictures my father had often shown me of the former oceans.
The lightning shimmered keenly over this group several times, bringing into glittering relief something held by the crouching figure, and something held close to a flushed cheek by the sleeping girl.
The lightning shimmered over her sleeping face, and, as it shimmered, showed a black arch of cloud looming from the east.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shimmered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
