101 Verbs to Use for the Word glimpse

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.

All at once, during one of these periods of life, a sudden flame cut across the nighta quick glare that lit up the dead earth, shortly; giving me a glimpse of its flat lonesomeness.

Until a pupil gets a glimpse of that relation, that dependence of which we have just heard, with all that has yet happened in connection with it, he is not yet quite master of his fact.

I would try white; and so I materialized the suggestion, and stood looking the least bit in the world like a nun, bound about with my white vestments, and had obtained only one very unsatisfactory glimpse of the effect produced upon the sensitive heart of quicksilver, when I found that that subtile heart responded to influences other than mine.

Domesday affords us many curious glimpses of the condition of the people in cities and burghs.

Then the Yosemite Valley was discovered, and thousands of admiring tourists passed through sections of the lower and middle zones on their way to that wonderful park, and gained fine glimpses of the Sugar Pines and Silver Firs along the edges of dusty trails and roads.

The little maid was country bred, but having seen glimpses of city life and possessing much native good taste, she arranged the rooms so charmingly that they would admit of scant improvement.

Presently, I saw, rising up into the ruddy gloom, the distant peaks of the mighty amphitheatre of mountains, where, untold ages before, I had been shown my first glimpse of the terrors that underlie many things; and where, vast and silent, watched by a thousand mute gods, stands the replica of this house of mysteriesthis house that I had seen swallowed up in that hell-fire, ere the earth had kissed the sun, and vanished for ever.

The mist of fog slowly rose, and drifted away, leaving a wide view of ocean, but revealed no glimpse of any other craft.

Naturally, after having his first glimpse of happy home life and his first taste of genuine motherly affection, it was a sad day to little Rawdon when he was obliged to return to Curzon Street.

So the little cubs took their first glimpse of the big world, of mountains and sea and sunshine, and children playing on the shore, and the world was altogether too wonderful for little heads to comprehend.

While in its practical adaptation to this complex age the men who framed it, if they could "revisit the glimpses of the moon," would as little recognize their own handiwork as their own nation, yet they would still be able to find in successful operation the essential principles which they embodied in the document more than a century ago.

"They were peering into that room long before Clarke stole the glimpse which has undone the unfortunate Ranelagh.

As the passes are ascended, wide breaks in the ranges yield frequent glimpses of the more distant portions of the plateau.

How know you, that in it you were not allowed a glimpse, however dim and distant, of Him whom the Catholics call the Father?' 'It may be; but' 'Stay again.

The seaman holding the blazing torch aloft, and thrusting it forth across the rail, took on the appearance of a black statue, as motionless as though carved from ebony, while in the gleam the various groups of men became visible, lined up along the port bulwarks, all staring in the one direction, eagerly seeking a first glimpse of the approaching craft.

In addition to the letter from "A Father" referred to below, the essay produced, seven months later, in the August number of the London Magazine, a long poetical "Epistle to Elia," signed "Olen," in which very simply and touchingly Lamb was reminded that the grave is not the end, was asked to consider the promises of the Christian faith, and finally was offered a glimpse of some of the friends he would meet in heavenamong them

While Mr. Clarence L. Hay and I were on the slopes of Choqquequirau the clouds would occasionally break away and give us tantalizing glimpses of snow-covered mountains.

Only to the few, the favoured, does she grant rare glimpses through media which she has provided for the use of the initiatesuch as this crystal here, in which I was studying your future, when you came in, the high future I plan for you.

It was as though she had been vouchsafed a far glimpse of destiny which had been too fleeting for her comprehension.

Arthur Gibbs went abroad at the end of March 1899 for a month's trip to Italy, and in his Journal he wrote many good descriptions of scenery and of the old towns; and the way in which he describes his last glimpse of Florence during a glorious sunset shows how greatly he appreciated its beauty.

Thus wrecked and wasted, her opportunity past, her career a disappointment, she leaves us only the passing glimpse of what she was, and the hazy possibility of what she might have been.

We were soon mounting the zigzags through the splendid pine woods, and enjoyed the delicious glimpses down the deep moss-grown glades, with the scent of the rising sap in our nostrils.

Lanyard doubted it, he doubted her, himself, all things within the compass of his understanding, and knew appalling glimpses of that everlasting truth, too passionless to be cynical, that the hopes of man and his fears, his loves and hates, his strivings and passivity, are all one in the measured and immutable processes of Time....

I do not wish to trouble my readers with two descriptions of the same islandand those mere passing glimpses.

101 Verbs to Use for the Word  glimpse