glim
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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
All along the brilliant façade of barracks there is sudden and simultaneous "dousing of the glim" and a rush of the cadets to their narrow nests.
From Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier by Charles King
Can’t you foot it soft, you that has daylights and a glim?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
And in his exultation he called out, "The beaks have doused the glim, Cap'n Duff!"
From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe
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