Both Uses of
glimmer
in
Ethan Frome
- They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and grey under the stars.†
Chpt 2 *
- They had reached the crest of the Corbury road, and between the indistinct white glimmer of the church and the black curtain of the Varnum spruces the slope stretched away below them without a sled on its length.†
Chpt 9 *
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