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

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)

Now, here, you see, is my little glim; it ain’t for me, because I’m blind, worse luck! and the day and night is the blessed same to David Pew.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis