glim
Example Sentences
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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
A brother-farmer—neighbor, once, to me— Who's down here, like myself, to hear and see, Told me, last night, before we "doused the glim," How a young wheel-chap got the start of him.
From City Ballads by Carleton, Will
The carriage light was feeble, and the faces I saw above me drooped under the glim, wilted and dingy.
From Waiting for Daylight by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
But douse the glim there; we shan’t want it, and it might give the alarm.”
From Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
