All 14 Uses of
glimmer
in
The Scarlet Letter
- And here, some six months ago—pacing from corner to corner, or lounging on the long-legged stool, with his elbow on the desk, and his eyes wandering up and down the columns of the morning newspaper—you might have recognised, honoured reader, the same individual who welcomed you into his cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly through the willow branches on the western side of the Old Manse.
Chpt Intr.glimmered = twinkled
- A ray of humour, now and then, would make its way through the veil of dim obstruction, and glimmer pleasantly upon our faces.†
Chpt Intr. *
- Nor did it quit me when, late at night, I sat in the deserted parlour, lighted only by the glimmering coal-fire and the moon, striving to picture forth imaginary scenes, which, the next day, might flow out on the brightening page in many-hued description.
Chpt Intr.glimmering = dimly shining and wavering
- Yet there were intervals when the whole scene, in which she was the most conspicuous object, seemed to vanish from her eyes, or, at least, glimmered indistinctly before them, like a mass of imperfectly shaped and spectral images.
Chpt 2glimmered = wavered
- Whenever that look appeared in her wild, bright, deeply black eyes, it invested her with a strange remoteness and intangibility: it was as if she were hovering in the air, and might vanish, like a glimmering light that comes we know not whence and goes we know not whither.
Chpt 6glimmering = dimly shining or twinkling
- Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness; until—perhaps with that perverse expression glimmering from beneath her opening lids—little Pearl awoke!
Chpt 6glimmering = shining
- One day, as her mother stooped over the cradle, the infant's eyes had been caught by the glimmering of the gold embroidery about the letter; and putting up her little hand she grasped at it, smiling, not doubtfully, but with a decided gleam, that gave her face the look of a much older child.
Chpt 6glimmering = shining or twinkling
- Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hillside, and quivered on the pilgrim's face.
Chpt 10glimmered = shined
- He kept vigils, likewise, night after night, sometimes in utter darkness, sometimes with a glimmering lamp, and sometimes, viewing his own face in a looking-glass, by the most powerful light which he could throw upon it.
Chpt 11glimmering = dimly shining
- His eyes, however, were soon greeted by a little glimmering light, which, at first a long way off was approaching up the street.
Chpt 12 *glimmering = dimly shining or twinkling
- The glimmer of this luminary suggested the above conceits to Mr. Dimmesdale, who smiled—nay, almost laughed at them—and then wondered if he was going mad.†
Chpt 12
- When the light of the glimmering lantern had faded quite away, the minister discovered, by the faintness which came over him, that the last few moments had been a crisis of terrible anxiety, although his mind had made an involuntary effort to relieve itself by a kind of lurid playfulness.
Chpt 12glimmering = dimly shining or twinkling
- And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom; and little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the connecting link between those two.
Chpt 12glimmering = shining or twinkling
- There glimmered the embroidered letter, with comfort in its unearthly ray.
Chpt 13glimmered = shined or twinkled
Definitions:
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(glimmer as in: glimmering lights) a dim, wavering, or reflected light
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(glimmer as in: a glimmer of hope) a slight indication of something -- such as hope or interest