glim

Example Sentences

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Dead reckoning, says Joe, it won't do to go by;   But they doused all the glims, Matt, in sky     t' other night.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman

"I wanna get my glims on him—" "What, Jimmie?"

From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Hurst, Fannie

It was welling higher to douse our feeble glims and to founder London, built of shadows on its boundary.

From London River by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

Ho, steward!" cried the captain, to the landlord; "douse the glims, and show the passengers to their cabins.

From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by Halidom, M. Y.

Oliver ne'er was a friend of mine; All glims I hate that so brightly shine.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison