All 8 Uses of
glimmer
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He saw the darkening lands slipping away past him, the silent telegraph-poles passing his window swiftly every four seconds, the little glimmering stations, manned by a few silent sentries, flung by the mail behind her and twinkling for a moment in the darkness like fiery grains flung backwards by a runner.†
Chpt 2
- This was the end; and a faint glimmer of fear began to pierce the fog of his mind.†
Chpt 3
- The faint glimmer of fear became a terror of spirit as the hoarse voice of the preacher blew death into his soul.†
Chpt 3
- And the glimmering souls passed away, sustained and failing, merged in a moving breath.†
Chpt 3 *
- Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces.†
Chpt 4
- A world, a glimmer or a flower?†
Chpt 4 *
- Glimmering and trembling, trembling and unfolding, a breaking light, an opening flower, it spread in endless succession to itself, breaking in full crimson and unfolding and fading to palest rose, leaf by leaf and wave of light by wave of light, flooding all the heavens with its soft flushes, every flush deeper than the other.†
Chpt 4
- Behind a hedge of laurel a light glimmered in the window of a kitchen and the voice of a servant was heard singing as she sharpened knives.†
Chpt 5
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