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
"Douse your glim, mate; we'll be having them Zeppelins all over us."
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 by Various
I'll douse the glim and let 'em stay.
From Isle o' Dreams by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
Curfew And p’raps it’s just as well to tell He introduced the Curfew Bell; So at the early hour of eight Each doused his glim, raked out his grate.
From A Humorous History of England by Charles Harrison
