Both Uses of
glimmer
in
Treasure Island
- I might have been twice as weary, yet I would not have left the deck, all was so new and interesting to me—the brief commands, the shrill note of the whistle, the men bustling to their places in the glimmer of the ship's lanterns.†
Chpt 10
- I looked up; a pale glimmer of moonbeams had alighted on the summit of the Spy-glass, and soon after I saw something broad and silvery moving low down behind the trees, and knew the moon had risen.†
Chpt 27 *
Definition:
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(glimmer as in: a glimmer of hope) a slight indication of something -- such as hope or interest