glim
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Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim.
From Time Magazine Archive
The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim.
From Time Magazine Archive
When two substantives of a different signification meet together, the latter is put in the genitive case, as Ulysses lumen Cyclopis extinxit: Ulysses doused the glim of the Cyclops.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech
The carriage light was feeble, and the faces I saw above me drooped under the glim, wilted and dingy.
From Waiting for Daylight by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
We goes up to the second floor and turns on the glim in the front office.
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
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