Glimmer

Examples

• There was a glimmer of nightly rabbits across the ground. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There are the lights of my house, he murmured, pointing to a glimmer among the trees. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The servants had not expected them so early, and there was only a glimmer of gas on the upper landing. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Our gas was lit and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for the table had not been cleared yet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• You can imagine my surprise when, as I looked down this corridor, I saw a glimmer of light coming from the open door of the library. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• You see it shining over her head in the glimmer of the lamp, and--and the lamp goes out, with a groan, and all is dark. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• One light glimmered in the depth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A quite perceptible smile glimmered on Mrs. Bird's face, as she answered, We'll see. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• At first they were faintly discernible in the mist, and above them the later stars still glimmered. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The air become more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue--the death of night, rather than the birth of day--glimmered faintly in the sky. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Dim dawn glimmered in the yard. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Evadne did not answer; her large dark eyes were cast down, at length a tear glimmered on the lashes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual light. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Her soul was new, undefined and glimmering with the unseen. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As he came out into the glimmering patch of light, we saw that he carried something white under his arm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They rushed into the kitchen, whither the truants had repaired, and at once obtained rather more than a glimmering of the real state of the case. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Mother, I have been an undutiful trouble to you, and I have my reward; but of late years I have had a kind of glimmering of a purpose in me too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He pointed to a light, glimmering below us; and, at the same moment, I heard through the stillness of the evening the bubbling of a stream. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He stood before her, glimmering, so awfully real, that her heart almost stopped beating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In creative moments men always draw upon some secret spring of certainty, some fundamental well into which no disturbing glimmers penetrate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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