"Them hot-headed Kentuckians, y' know, they'd dowse a feller's glim for less 'n that.

But look to be ready to douse your glim.

The age is a fast one, you know; so, when the man feels like having his glims doused, he just jumps into the midst of a crowd of real b'hoys, runs his head, good-naturedly, you know, against a pair of knuckles, and the business is settled with "neatness and despatch," as the job-printers say.

Then, just at a quarter to three they doused the glim, which was only an electric torch one of them carried, and skipped out, locking the door on poor Cadger.

But had those wits, the wonders of their dayes, Or that sweete Teian poet*, which did spend His plenteous vaine in setting forth her praise, 220 Seen but a glims of this which I pretend**, How wondrously would he her face commend, Above that idole of his fayning thought, That all the world should with his rimes be fraught!

Be sure that glim is dousedI don't want anybody to know about this.

He cites as allied words Bohemian dusyti, to choke, to extinguish; Polish dusic, to choke, stifle, quell; and so arrives at the English slang phrase, "dowse the glim."

Far sweeter it is in the twilights glim, When the symbolled altar is growing dim, And the wayward shadows dart, To watch the golden light stream in

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How advertising is written and why, by Aesop Glim, pseud.

By Aesop Glim, pseud. of George Laflin Miller.

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How advertising is written and why, by Aesop Glim, pseud.

By Aesop Glim, pseud. of George Laflin Miller.

If any master's candle appeared n the hall, the boys had full three minutes' warning, and a single loudly-whispered "cave" would cause some one in each dormitory instantly to "douse the glim," and shut the door; so that by the time of the adversary's arrival, they would all be (of course) fast asleep in bed, some of them snoring in an alarming manner.

But douse the glim there; we shan't want it, and it might give the alarm.

Here, you, let me take the glim.

o' my chist,and when I could get a bit of a glim I'd read it.

There was an old Miss from Antrim, Who looked for the leak with a glim.