glim
Example Sentences
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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
Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
At this point the order was given, "Douse the glim," and all lights were extinguished.
From The Mountains of Oregon by William Gladstone Steel
