Which preposition to use with glimpses
Then, as I caught a glimpse of her old petticoat, the thought passed as quickly as it had come, and I half laughed.
The memory passed, along with a, but partially comprehended, suggestion that I had been permitted a glimpse into further time spaces.
" Mr. Everidge came to meet her as the train steamed into the little station, and Evadne soon found herself seated in a comfortable carriage behind a handsome chestnut mare, bowling along a fragrant country road, catching glimpses at every turn of the verdure-clad hills.
" Dull, gray wisps of murk, the afterguard of the gaseous cloud, were twisting and spiraling in a witch-dance across the landscape, and, seen by snatches and glimpses through it, something flapped darkly in the breeze.
This, O friend PUNCHINELLO, was only one of my Glimpses of Fortune.
As I went, I asked myself whether the thing I had just seen was likely to be the same of which I had caught a glimpse in the morning.
He set his coffee to boil while meditating that down in the Sacramento Valley, which one could glimpse from here by day, it was stifling hot, like midsummer.
The red brick buildings of the Salsette Academy could be glimpsed on the other shore.
[Footnote 2: A Glimpse behind the Curtain, p. 117.]
As we sailed along we caught glimpses to port of the warm, red walls of a stately building that we knew to be Westover.
The instinct of skilful drapery, the sense of colour (subdued by custom, but breaking out in subtle glimpses under the universal ashy tints) make the humblest assemblage of donkey-men and water-carriers an ever-renewed delight.
Last night something had frightened himsomething glimpsed for a moment in Esther's face when she had come in from the garden to say good-night.
"We passed over long, undulating hills and valleys, and towards 1 p.m. obtained our first glimpse down the beautiful vale of the Marne.
Had he been a little less stately in manner, a little more rapid of movement, he might have overtaken the very lady of whom he obtained a glimpse during his ascent.
About it, rimming it in clean lines which did not invade the sward, were pines, and beyond the pines, to be seen in broken glimpses among their sturdy straight trunks, were the cliffs shutting all in.
There is an urgent call for a comprehensive book which will waste no time in non-essentials,a book that can be read in a few sittings and yet will give a glimpse over this quaint and wondrously interesting corner of Europe.
We classify strangers into whose careers the newspapers or our friends give us glimpses as "bad" or "good"; we separate humanity into inevitable goathood and sheephood.
I stand up and try to catch a glimpse between the coachman and footman, of the gate, to see whether they have come to meet me.
SEE BARNETT, GRACE T. RICHARDS, GEORGE M. Glimpses into the long ago.
Every advance changed the many-faceted beauty of New York, and Myra, gazing, had one glimpse across little green Battery Park up the deep twilit cañon of Broadway, the city's spine.
I mind it was some tale of years later that I got my first glimpse below the surface of things in the town of Thorn, and especially in the castle of the Wolfsberg.
For though the dusky eyes were fixed and still, unveiled but unrevealing, though the high cheek-bones and lantern jaw were grim as beaten brass, she had a glimpse beyond of the seething, volcanic fires she dreaded, and she knew that he had spoken the truth.
There is a perpetual reminiscence of animal life in her rude caricatures, which sometimes actually reach the point of imitating the complete human figure, as in that extraordinary specimen which nobody will believe to be genuine, except the men of science, and of which the discreet reader may have a glimpse by application in the proper quarter.
And left what you had a glimpse ofjust a man, pagan, material, unmoral, unsafe; unmoved by anything except by what appeals to the material senses.
A glimpse past Charlie as he came out showed her Matt staggering aimlessly about the kitchen, red-eyed, scowling, muttering to himself.