The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.
Tennyson
From art, from nature, from the schools, / Let random influences glance, / Like light in many a shivered lance, / That breaks about the dappled pools.
To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
Macaulay
And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, / His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet.
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
William Shakespeare
Your arrow hath glanced.
John Milton
On me the curse aslope / Glanced on the ground.
Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal
I started — I dropped the glass — the fluid flamed and glanced along the floor, while I felt Cornelius's gripe at my throat, as he shrieked aloud, "Wretch! you have destroyed the labour of my life!"
puhekieltä To hit lightly with the head, make a deftheader.
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To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
Wherein obscurely / Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.