At times, it seemed to me that I caught a faint glimmer of light, under its surface; but of this, I could not be sure.

The silence got on my nerves I arose impatiently and walked down the pale beach, where the stars glimmered in splashes along the wettest sands.

And now I was within the circling of the outer planets, and flitting swiftly, toward the place where the earth, glimmering through the blue splendor of its orbit, as though a fiery mist, circled the sun at a monstrous speed...." XV THE NOISE IN THE NIGHT

Inside the car, lights glimmered on polished wood; the rattling and shaking were somehow cheerful.

Slowly amid the dimness above came a glimmer from the great window, a pale beam that grew with dawn until up rose the sun and the window glowed in many-hued splendour.

Then all sat down and feasted and drank merrily together until the sun was low and the half-moon glimmered with a pale light betwixt the leaves of the trees overhead.

This place they left not long after the middle of the night, and traveling fast through the tender dawning of the summer day, when the dews lay shining on the meadows and faint mists hung in the dales, when the birds sang their sweetest and the cobwebs beneath the hedges glimmered like fairy cloth of silver, they came at last to the towers and walls of famous London Town, while the morn was still young and all golden toward the east.

He waited a moment, and then as she did nothing but sit and glimmer at him mischievously, he added: "Shall we go?" "Where now?"

Dorothy crossed to my side, her foot striking a knife, which came glimmering into the narrow range of light.

Candles glimmered before the altar and around the ghastly person of the dead, throughout the night; and the cathedral of St. Mark was pregnant with all the imposing ceremonials of the Catholic ritual, until the day once more appeared.

There's an easterly feel in the air, and all last night the water had an easterly glimmer about it.

These were the only touches of color in the dreary landscape, except for the streak of pale-yellow sky that glimmered above a long black ridge.

In that moment her eyes took one backward glance across the park and rested on the lights of Axcester glimmering between the naked elms.

Whether the decoration was not yet finished, and the tinsel therefore not yet arrived, we could not learn; but are afraid it is only too probable, as the church, as it stood, might have been one of our own; for even the gilt pulpit harmonised so well with the rest, that it did not detract from the religious and solemn effect, while the light through the finely-coloured windows threw a softening glimmer over all.

It filled a wide hollow or basin among the white hills, against which its whiter houses and domes glimmered for miles, in the dead, dreary heat of the afternoon, scarcely relieved by the narrow belt of gardens on the nearer side, or the orchards of pistachio trees beyond.

Myriad specks of light glimmered amid shadowy roofs.

Before him stretched a wide hall, dimly illumined by a single light which splashed on the Italian table and went glimmering across the floor.

The sea shone with reflected light and an iceberg glimmered against the blue.

Retired the scene, yet in the morning light, Athens in view, shone glimmering to the sight.

Great masses of stone-work are still visible, glimmering under the blue water, where the marble walls repelled the waves, and ran out in long arcades and corridors far into the sea.

Not a ray gleamed through the Venetian shutters, and the glimmer beyond the fan-light over the door was almost imperceptible.

Its voice came chill and cheerless into the dusky room, where the fire was now glimmering near its death, and the only sounds were those of Gershom's rushing pencil, the whispering of Marshall and his friend, and old Mother Scritcher feebly whimpering in her corner.

They had all the livid paleness of death; their eyes, deep-sunk in their sockets, resembled those phosphoric meteors that glimmer by night in places of interment.

James Edwin Campbell NEGRO SERENADE O, de light-bugs glimmer down de lane, Merlindy!

Hence perhaps it comes that, every now and then, into our consciousnesses float strange odors of feeling, strange tones as of bygone affections, strange glimmers as of forgotten truths, strange mental sensations of indescribable sort and texture.