Both Uses of
glimmer
in
The Mill on the Floss
- The idea of ever recovering happiness never glimmered in her mind for a moment; it seemed as if every sensitive fibre in her were too entirely preoccupied by pain ever to vibrate again to another influence.†
Chpt 7.2 *
- And without a moment's shudder of fear, she plunged through the water, which was rising fast to her knees, and by the glimmering light of the candle she had left on the stairs, she mounted on to the window-sill, and crept into the boat, which was left with the prow lodging and protruding through the window.†
Chpt 7.5
Definition:
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(glimmer as in: glimmering lights) a dim, wavering, or reflected light