1074 examples of glimmer in sentences
At the window winks the flickering fire-light; Here and there the lamps of evening glimmer, Social watch-fires, Answering one another through the darkness.
Meanwhile, of course, the Terrific and Intrepid, well and sound, would be racing away down to the South Seas and no one in the Three Townsexcept the dockyard hands, whom we would look afterand no one at all in Germany, would have a glimmer of the real truth.
While the reverential piety of the older tragedians sheds over their pieces as it were a reflected radiance of heaven; while the limitation of the narrow horizon of the older Hellenes exercises its satisfying power even over the hearer; the world of Euripides appears in the pale glimmer of speculation as much denuded of gods as it is spiritualised, and gloomy passions shoot like lightnings athwart the gray clouds.
If he had felt a glimmer of hope for the moment, it was gone now; fate was against him, nothing ever went right.
The expression of his countenance seemed to waver, glimmer, and nearly to die away, and feebly to recover itself again.
The room in question was small, gloomy, and uncomfortable, but so shaded and sequestered, that, lulled by its drowsy glimmer, for its inmates, as for the lotus-eaters, "it was always afternoon.
You owes her more than one good turn now, or I'm mistaken!" "Who the devil are you?" asked Tom, startled, and with reason; yet conscious, in his dark, dreary despair, of a vague glimmer, bearing the same relation to hope that a will-o'-the-wisp does to the light on our hearth at home.
As far as he could see, the blinds were all drawn; not even the glimmer of a candle showed, and the voices which he heard were muffled and low.
The log hadn't taken fire yet, and there was only a light glimmer, from the coals, on the ceiling.
While it is dark, nothing can be seen but the abyss, or at most, a faint glimmer of ill-defined forms.
Deborah groped her way into the cellar, and, after considerable stumbling, kindled a match, and lighted a tallow dip, that sent a yellow glimmer over the room.
There was a queer glimmer in his eyes.
Half an hour later, which to H.'s indignant imagination seemed an age, we reached the top of a high ridge, and saw the first glimmer of the lights of the village, on the farther edge of a broad plain, a mile and a half distant.
As the lantern threw its feeble glimmer on this group, and I surveyed them through my loophole, I thought I had never seen so wild and savage a picture, such enormous shadows, such bold outline, such a startling flash on the face of their leader, such light retreating up the threatening arches.
Of less importance, but yet not without interest,if it be interesting to know accurately the early manners of a people, and to trace their progress from periods when those lights of science which are now beaming in full radiance over the land, had just begun to glimmer above the horizon,is the following instance.
" The muscles in his cheeks grew tense, then into his eyes came that reckless glimmer which in the beginning she had distrusteda gay, irresponsible radiance which seemed to mock at all things worthy.
James Edwin Campbell NEGRO SERENADE O, de light-bugs glimmer down de lane, Merlindy!
Far away, across the level, my eyes caught a glimmer of water, locating the river, but in no direction was there any sign of a house, or curl of smoke.
Her hand waved; I could catch the glimmer of the white sleeve, and recognized it as a signal.
I recall glancing back, imagining I saw the white glimmer of her dress against the dark shrubbery, and then I resolutely drove all memory of her from my mind, concentrating every instinct to the one immediate purpose of overcoming the stable guard.
Then I begin to suspect that I am not cut out for medico-legal practice, for I don't see the faintest glimmer of a suggestion.
I stood still, waiting for some glimmer of recognition.
Now it was all a-glimmer with lanterns shaped like birds and butterflies.
For if Uncle has a glimmer of a suspicion that I would befriend Sada at the cost of his plans, so surely as the river is lost in the sea, Sada would disappear from my world until it was too late for me to lend a hand.
We sat on our folded feet and made a big circle all around, with only the glimmer of the coals for a light.