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
There, you infarnal beast, you’ve yawed sharp up into this ere bush, and put my starboard glim out forever!
From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
The glim of one of my skylights is dousted, and is battened down for ever.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton
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
