Glimpses

Examples

• I was puzzled, because I could not make the glimpses of furniture I saw accord with my knowledge of any of these apartments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Again, I catch rare glimpses of my mother, moving her lips timidly between the two, with one of them muttering at each ear like low thunder. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The river and the hills are delicious, and these glimpses of the narrow cross streets are my delight. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Then on through the level darkness, with glimpses of sleeping farms and thin poplar trees and deserted high-roads. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They caught through the foliage glimpses of martial scarlet; helm shone, plume waved. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I caught glimpses of velvet chairs, a high white marble mantel-piece, and what seemed to be a suit of Japanese armor at one side of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In sunshine we see a greenness beneath the azure, as of spring meadows; we catch glimpses of silver lines, and imagine the roll of living waters. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He only caught glimpses of her; he did not understand her altogether. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• At last he saw it, the thing the little monkeys so feared--the man-brute of which the Claytons had caught occasional fleeting glimpses. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Her sister asserted the family gentility by flouting the poor swain as he loitered about the prison for glimpses of his dear. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• With what feelings I welcomed single trees I knew, and familiar glimpses of meadow and hill between them! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Incidental glimpses of this work are both amusing and interesting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Such charms as those of which we catch glimpses while her ladyship's carriage passes should appear abroad at night alone. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Toward dusk we drew near Milan and caught glimpses of the city and the blue mountain peaks beyond. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Thus the glimpses we had of the grand panorama below were only fitful and unsatisfactory. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Of this period and his association with Jay Gould, some very interesting glimpses are given by Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Once in a while there were glimpses of more powerful and complicated devices to be seen among these simple arms. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Typist: Rachel