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
Bah! who’d call that a binnacle glim, or a lamp of any kind?
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid
I turned up the dull and stinking oil lamp, and tried to read; but that fuliginous glim haunted the pages.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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
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