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
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
We got to the fifth child, and I heard something about her, when the wind reached round the wood stack at us, and snatched the last glim.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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
