All 5 Uses of
glimmer
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Baskerville shuddered as he looked up the long, dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end.†
Chpt 6
- When I came round the balcony he had reached the end of the farther corridor, and I could see from the glimmer of light through an open door that he had entered one of the rooms.†
Chpt 8 *
- The baronet caught my sleeve and his face glimmered white through the darkness.†
Chpt 9
- There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.†
Chpt 9
- Holmes groaned, and his face glimmered white through the darkness.†
Chpt 12 *
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