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glimmer
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  • I saw a glimmer of understanding in her eye.
    glimmer = a slight indication
  • The glimmer in his eyes would be just as bright.   (source)
    glimmer = a slight indication of something
  • He was a beat too late: Bright won by a glimmer.   (source)
    glimmer = slight amount
  • She'd had the faintest glimmer of an imagining to slow Bibwit down and then--bam!   (source)
  • I took Drew's handoff, saw a glimmer of a hole between Tyler Ashby and our center Dan Driessen, and made my move.   (source)
    glimmer = a slight indication of something
  • A glimmer of regret flashed through his weariness: this would be a good photo, but he'd left his camera in the hotel safe.   (source)
    glimmer = slight indication
  • In the back of his mind something began to glimmer.   (source)
    glimmer = arise (an inkling of a new thought -- a slight indication of something)
  • Mr. Hooper's smile glimmered faintly.   (source)
    glimmered = a slight indication of something
  • Somehow she had come to be here in this tiny purple bathroom, a mother to Phoebe, a companion to a brilliant man with a failing mind, an unlikely but certain friend to this woman Doro March: the two of them strangers a year ago, women who might have passed each other on the street without a second glance or a glimmer of connection, their lives now woven together by the demands of their days and a cautious, sure respect.   (source)
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  • He cleared his throat and read from the book: " 'It was at moments such as these that Joseph recognized the face of God in human form. It glimmered in their kindness to him, it glowed in their...' "   (source)
    glimmered = shined (was indicated)
  • When morning comes and the parking lot glimmers with dew, I see the billboard on the highway.   (source)
    glimmers = shines
  • They glimmered in the candlelight, pink and pale green and silver.   (source)
    glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)
  • The tall man's sparkling white garment glimmered in the afternoon sun.   (source)
    glimmered = shined
  • A lone osprey hovered overhead, attracted by a glimmer of baitfish in the shallows.   (source)
    glimmer = wavering glimpse of the colors
  • As the castaways slumped in the rafts, trying to accept another lost chance, over the western horizon there was a glimmer, tracing a wide curve, then banking toward the rafts.   (source)
    glimmer = shining reflection
  • The crystal trophy cases glimmered where the moonlight caught them.   (source)
    glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)
  • A candle inside a tall red glass threw glints and glimmers across her body.   (source)
    glimmers = dim, wavering light
  • Expecting to see the yard-wide ditch we had dug at noon, we were not prepared for the twelve-foot lake which glimmered up at us.   (source)
    glimmered = shined (with a wavering light)
  • The late sun's brilliance could penetrate only in scattered glimmers, and everything was silent and untouched, the ground muffled with moss and sliding needles, the graceful arms of the pines stretched out protectively in every direction.   (source)
    glimmers = dim, wavering light
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  • Through it, you could watch the glimmers of phosphorescence in the ocean's dark, and if you pressed your hand to it, you could feel the deep water on the other side, shockingly cold.   (source)
  • Tally caught the glimmer of the river through the smoke,   (source)
    glimmer = wavering reflection
  • From somewhere Mrs Who's glasses glimmered and they heard her voice.   (source)
    glimmered = shined or twinkled
  • This plain of snow shone a powdery white that morning; the sun blazed icily somewhere too low on the horizon to be seen directly, but its clean rays shed a blue-white glimmer all around us.   (source)
    glimmer = dim reflected light
  • The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars.   (source)
    glimmering = shining (with a dim or wavering light)
  • She turned to see Kay Marshall, dressed in slim pink pants and a cream and pink sweater, gold leather flats, and glimmering gold earrings.   (source)
    glimmering = shining (with a wavering or reflected light)
  • In his left hand he held up his glimmering staff, the light of which just showed the ground before his feet;   (source)
    glimmering = shining (with a dim or wavering light)
  • They made their beds on the sand, and as the blaze dropped from the fire the sphere of light grew smaller; the curling branches disappeared and only a faint glimmer showed where the tree trunks were.   (source)
    glimmer = a dim wavering light
  • …flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough, but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns, when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance, when the time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined.   (source)
    glimmer = dim reflected light
  • The woods were already filled with shadows one June evening, just before eight o'clock, though a bright sunset still glimmered faintly among the trunks of the trees.   (source)
    glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)
  • His eyes, however, were soon greeted by a little glimmering light, which, at first a long way off was approaching up the street.   (source)
    glimmering = dimly shining or twinkling
  • It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.   (source)
    glimmer = dim, wavering light
  • Maya catches my eye, hers glimmering sneakily, and it's middle school déjà vu.†   (source)
  • Dawn sun comes in through the tall arched windows, the smoky air ignites, the floor glimmers.†   (source)
  • When people returned indoors, the lines glimmered under the lamps.†   (source)
  • Most of the houses I could see stayed dark, but some windows glimmered with faint lights I figured were candles.†   (source)
  • Outside, the lights of Moscow glimmered in the same old fashion, such that as the seconds ticked by, the men in the room began shifting on their feet and exchanging remarks.†   (source)
  • Chuck turned and gave him a thumbs-up; his eyes glimmered with tears.†   (source)
  • C H A PT E R 4 3 The last trace I saw of the ship was a patch of oil glimmering on the surface of the water.†   (source)
  • Gettum's eyes glimmered as she clicked the SEARCH key.†   (source)
  • In the deep hole below the door Bod could see stars, a darkness filled with glimmering lights.†   (source)
  • Ahead, the far shore glimmered with greenish light, the color of poison.†   (source)
  • A large ring of black, iridescent stone glimmered on Cain's finger—strange that he'd wear it to practice.†   (source)
  • Frost glimmers in the air, and Marie-Laure shuffles along with the ball of her cane out in front and her thin hair blown to one side and the leafless canopies of the trees drifting overhead as she imagines schools of Portuguese men-of-war drift, trailing their long tentacles behind them.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of them, hovering a thousand feet up, motionless, their gray underbellies glimmering in the light.†   (source)
  • The Hall itself casts a glimmering shadow over me, and I find myself staring in stupid awe again.†   (source)
  • IT'S HARD TO TELL EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT AS THE WEEKS pass we begin to catch glimmers.†   (source)
  • My father could see glimmers, like the colored flecks inside my mother's eyes—things to hold on to.†   (source)
  • Their footsteps echoing off the glimmering walls, the three siblings walked through the Reptile Room, toward the far end, where Uncle Monty's library lay waiting for them.†   (source)
  • The edges glimmered faintly as they kissed the light.†   (source)
  • The high ceiling had been hung with hundreds of crimson paper lanterns, each one glimmering with rich, golden light.†   (source)
  • Beatty's pink phosphorescent cheeks glimmered in the high darkness, and he was smiling furiously.†   (source)
  • He was standing with his back to Arthur watching the very last glimmers of light sink into blackness behind the horizon.†   (source)
  • Tuxedos and glimmering starched shirts; evening gowns; the band playing; gleaming high-heeled pumps.†   (source)
  • Her silky red hair had glimmered in the moonlight, those green eyes looked up at me like I was some sort of answer, and, damn, she smelled like cinnamon and sugar fresh out of the oven.†   (source)
  • Distorted lines and wavering spots of color glimmered through the stone, but its thickness made it impossible to discern anything clearly on the floor of the chamber a mile below them.†   (source)
  • My own humanity was awakened, rising up to greet me with a handshake as I watched the first glimmers of sunlight peek over the horizon.†   (source)
  • Rather, the flowers to be used for the purpose should have the effect of flecks and glimmers of bright color imperfectly breaking through the general greenery.†   (source)
  • She walked a ways downriver and then stood gazing at the glimmering water.†   (source)
  • On my closed eyelids the sun glimmered and blazed.†   (source)
  • The tree leaves against the window glimmered green with veins of chlorophyll blood.†   (source)
  • Another low door led to a backyard, where there were more banana trees, beyond which the river glimmered through the foliage.†   (source)
  • Water glimmered in a stone-bound rock pool.†   (source)
  • The screen flashes back to the default picture: a boy and a girl, smiling at each other, with glimmering lights and a white-coated Official in the background.†   (source)
  • Where it bent or broke it glimmered bright in the sunlight.†   (source)
  • A line of spittle glimmered down his chin like a snail's trail, and he was flexing and unflexing arm muscles that had not yet gone to seed.†   (source)
  • It was during the first glimmering of old age, when she began to feel that something irreparable had occurred in her life whenever she heard thunder before the rain.†   (source)
  • Glimmering pink petals unfurled from pods he hadn't noticed before, like fingertips reaching out in the dark.†   (source)
  • I see glimmers of hope.†   (source)
  • A few stars glimmered palely in the light sky.†   (source)
  • The starched white sleeves of his shirt, rolled up to the elbows, glimmered eerily in the half dark and his tan skin seemed almost black.†   (source)
  • Inside. the tea lights glimmered softly. and the hearts glittered.†   (source)
  • She is down to a G-string, a glimmering translucent shawl, and a gloriously overflowing brassiere.†   (source)
  • Glimmering beneath is the Augur-forged shirt Hel won in the Trial of Cunning.†   (source)
  • As light glimmered around the Institute, Tom sliced pieces of monkey liver with his diamond knife and put them into the electron microscope.†   (source)
  • As she rode the bus back through the strange glimmering landscape of Atlanta, she tried to put the fear of the last few years out of her mind.†   (source)
  • The first traces of daylight were glimmering through the broken roof of the Honeycomb behind.†   (source)
  • The latticework of branches reveals glimmers of a fading sky.†   (source)
  • It was a glimmering memory of my own.†   (source)
  • You might become more skeptical of the conventional wisdom; you may begin looking for hints as to how things aren't quite what they seem; perhaps you will seek out some trove of data and sift through it, balancing your intelligence and your intuition to arrive at a glimmering new idea.†   (source)
  • The lights in the trees glimmered as Edward led me through the glass back doors, making the white flowers glow.†   (source)
  • A glimmering fairy boy with yellow eyes smiles up at me.†   (source)
  • Face pressed to the porthole once again, Mortenson saw the Korphe School pass by far below, a yellow crescent glimmering faintly, like hope, among the village's emerald fields.†   (source)
  • The silver specks that covered it glimmered in the candlelight whenever I moved.†   (source)
  • After a round of excited hugs and greetings, Tummeler explained to the companions what else was transpiring in the Archipelago, and for the first time, they felt a glimmering of hope.†   (source)
  • When I spoke, he looked up, eyes glimmering as he saw my face.†   (source)
  • The rooftops were silver below, turrets rising here and there through the huge, rustling treetops; and far off glimmered the broken chain of a lighted boulevard.†   (source)
  • Nurse Duckett flirted with Hungry Joe just to keep him in heat, and her round light-brown eyes glimmered with mischief every time Yossarian rapped her sharply with his elbow or fist to make her stop.†   (source)
  • Denver's brilliant skyline glimmered on the horizon directly ahead.†   (source)
  • I believe you told me the truth, mostly, about your war, and I believe that it took you from us, from me, allowing me only those glimmers of the man before.†   (source)
  • The young trainer glanced at Bourne, a glimmering of humor seen on his face in the glow of the headlights washing over the roofless jeep.†   (source)
  • Something had glimmered in Palmgren's eyes when he said the name Zalachenko.†   (source)
  • Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares.†   (source)
  • Lightning glimmered.†   (source)
  • The fairy people were dressed in gold and lavender gauze with satin trimming that glimmered under the colored spotlight.†   (source)
  • He trained his glass on a number of small lights glimmering in the surrounding woods.†   (source)
  • The whole journey was odd and dream-like the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing Beast ahead.†   (source)
  • To the left of us, one could see the faintest glimmers of light filtering through the half-cleared vegetation of the perimeter; it was the commander's hut, some fifty meters away.†   (source)
  • One truck pulled a trailer stacked with tools that glimmered in the moonlight.†   (source)
  • Three little towheads glimmering away through the trees; so non-Whitshank-like.†   (source)
  • Its bare patches glimmered in the fuzzy light.†   (source)
  • In the lapel of which she spied, wrought exquisitely in some pale, glimmering alloy, not another cerise badge, but a pin in the shape of the Trystero post horn.†   (source)
  • I had sensed a glimmering of this in Sophie's room that Sunday.†   (source)
  • — nevertheless the disheveled old mystic of Das Kapital, turgid, tortured, confused, and neurotic, unscientific, illogical, this pompous fraud Karl Marx, nevertheless had a glimmering of a very important truth.†   (source)
  • It was filled with brightening glimmers, like flame, but not flame; filled with shapes, faces, half-remembered images.†   (source)
  • And seemingly near yet unseen until then, Its light more timorous than that of a tallow-dip Set in the window of some watchman's hut, A star glimmered over the road to Bethlehem.†   (source)
  • Indoors it was dark-the wick, burning in its shallow saucer of oil, threw only a dim wavering light-but outside the land glimmered, sometimes pale and sometimes vivid, in the flicker of lightning.†   (source)
  • Below them the river was glimmering, narrow, soft, and skin-colored, and slowed nearly to stillness.†   (source)
  • As darkness fell, Powell slowly wormed his way toward the glimmering camp fire Reich had built in a clearing alongside a small lake.†   (source)
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  • "We'll take a glimmer," Jodie said.†   (source)
  • Glimmer's bloated body.†   (source)
  • I see in him some of the character I remember in Lucky so many years ago, and though it might be my imagination, I may have caught a glimmer of what I saw in Hachiko's gaze on the train platform.†   (source)
  • But Sha then deprived him of this last glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • At last, a glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • The sight of the carefully packed silver and gold treasures filled him with one last glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • Despite all the unanswered questions, the story of Cassie's life is testimony that Misty indeed sees more than a glimmer of hope in the devastating loss of her daughter.†   (source)
  • A few minutes passed before Thomas saw the first glimmer of light shine off the Maze walls up ahead.†   (source)
  • "The tomb…" he said suddenly, facing them with a faint glimmer of hope in his eyes.†   (source)
  • And behind them, a moonlit glimmer that might have been the sea.†   (source)
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  • Malfoy was diving, a look of triumph on his face — there, a few feet above the grass below, was a tiny, golden glimmer Harry urged the Firebolt downward, but Malfoy was miles ahead "Go!†   (source)
  • Listening to Naghma, Mariam remembered the dim glimmer of cold stars and the stringy pink clouds streaking over the Safid-koh mountains that long-ago morning when Nana had said to her, Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman.†   (source)
  • Every time I looked at the back of my door I felt a little glimmer of excitement, both that I had been so organized and that one of these events might actually be the thing that changed Will's view of the world.†   (source)
  • For the first time, Luke felt a glimmer of pride, that he dealt with hiding better than anyone else in his family would.†   (source)
  • It was the first glimmer of hope for Jim Williams in nearly a year.†   (source)
  • She scanned the twisting city streets and the winding glimmer of the river.†   (source)
  • Mr. Morrison considered this; there was even a glimmer of comprehension in his gaze, as if he saw—albeit momentarily—his own, terrifying potential; but his eyes were quickly fogged over by his breath in the cold air.†   (source)
  • Model automobiles glimmer on Frederick's shelves.†   (source)
  • They glimmer in the distance like jewels.†   (source)
  • He saw only the glimmer of the whites of her eyes.†   (source)
  • He gropes and stumbles in the right direction, scanning the ground for a glimmer of the vicious white land crabs that come out of their burrows and scuttle around after dark — those things can give you quite a nip — and after a short detour into a clump of bushes, he locates his cement hidey-hole by stubbing his toe on it.†   (source)
  • Mom recovers first and, without a glimmer of fear, takes my hand.†   (source)
  • For some reason, he felt a glimmer of possibility, almost as if this idea had been divinely inspired.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she sees a glimmer of independence— —a raised eyebrow, a carefully worded, possibly ironic observation, like, "Well, we can't make a decision on that till the boss gets home."†   (source)
  • When I'd recovered a little, I looked up to see another gleam ahead of me—not a reflection of my phone, but a weak glimmer of daylight.†   (source)
  • Getting up in the dark, she couldn't see a thing—there wasn't a glimmer of light.†   (source)
  • Tyrion saw a glimmer of gold as the light shone off his father's pupils, but he could not have said whether the look was one of approval or disgust.†   (source)
  • Now Matt could see a glimmer of light deep in the woods.†   (source)
  • It cast a weak glimmer up into the cavity where I was, but just as I recovered myself enough to stoop for it, the screen went dark.†   (source)
  • The journey gave me a glimmer of how hard this is for them.†   (source)
  • But when the NAACP and her parents announced they would push to have a hearing, I kept a glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • I often played that rule out to its very edge, stealing into the house at dusk, just as the last glimmer of sunlight was peeking over the western horizon, closing the door softly, hoping Mommy had gone to work, only to turn around and find her standing before me, hands on hips, whipping belt in hand, eyes flicking angrily back and forth to the window, then to me, lips pursed, trying to decide whether it was light or dark outside.†   (source)
  • A small glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.†   (source)
  • Jasper sat motionlessly at the desk in the corner, his eyes watching the news with no glimmer of interest.†   (source)
  • I passed my message succinctly: "Sniper Two One, this is Glimmer Three-preparing to move."†   (source)
  • This notion came to Prendergast initially as a glimmer, like the first sunlight to strike the Masonic tower each morning, but now he thought of it a thousand times a day.†   (source)
  • I think he was looking for a glimmer of understanding.†   (source)
  • I began to feel a glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • Seeing this woman at the commissary, he finally went through a belated, dim-witted epiphany, not a brilliant light shining down from heaven, more like the brown glimmer of a half-dead flashlight from the top of a stepladder: Juanita hadn't really changed much at all since those days, just grown into herself.†   (source)
  • The flesh of her cheeks fell away on either side of her face, making her cheekbones look high and prominent, and pulling her mouth downwards into a mirthless smile that contained just a glimmer of teeth.†   (source)
  • "And," Mack was still struggling, although a glimmer of light seemed to begin to shine into his mind.†   (source)
  • Looking down I saw a glimmer of silver.†   (source)
  • It's a chilling moment that offers a glimmer of the delusion he lives with.†   (source)
  • She had dropped the bloody cloth that had wrapped her arm and he could see the punctures where the spines had gone in, the glimmer of blood, welling, spillingA sharp pain in his lower lip told him that his fangs had slid from their sheaths.†   (source)
  • The Captain looked at Fermina Daza and saw on her eyelashes the first glimmer of wintry frost.†   (source)
  • Not a shield glimmer showed on any of them.†   (source)
  • One glimmer of hope—a tiny one at that—shone through my seemingly impossible situation.†   (source)
  • Or the woman at Mountain View Wesleyan who needed a glimmer of hope to help her cope with her grief.†   (source)
  • But our little fetching exercise offered a glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • I saw the glimmer of bare skin, like a pale veil separating two bloody-minded adversaries.†   (source)
  • When I turned it in my fingers, the glimmer jumped from one face to another.†   (source)
  • Now Cal saw the tears glimmer in those almond-shaped eyes.†   (source)
  • The fact that he didn't fight it, didn't try to talk his way out of taking the medicine, showed without a glimmer of doubt he was very sick.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist sometimes thought he saw a ripple in the curtains as he passed, and once when he was about to go to bed late, he noticed a glimmer of light coming from a room upstairs.†   (source)
  • She did not bandage it but tipped the flow over the cutting edge, letting the blood dull the blade's sharp glimmer.†   (source)
  • How on earth could they make out such tiny print in the glimmer of that miserable lamp?†   (source)
  • For a moment I think I can make out a glimmer of light on the horizon, but the next it's gone, just a trick of the eyes.†   (source)
  • Even in the grimmest times in prison, when my comrades and I were pushed to our limits, I would see a glimmer of humanity in one of the guards, perhaps just for a second, but it was enough to reassure me and keep me going.†   (source)
  • When at last a gray glimmer of light appeared on the horizon, it revealed a tangle of human shapes, heads sunk upon shoulders, crouched, piled one on top of the other, like a field of dust-covered tombstones in the first light of the dawn.†   (source)
  • A glimmer of red catches my eye, and I look across the cavern to where Keenan leans against a bunk watching me, his hair like fire in the torchlight.†   (source)
  • Surprise and a deep, inconsolable pain sprang onto Sloan's vulnerable face, along with the glimmer of tears.†   (source)
  • It was bittersweet for me, to feel so unsure about the whole thing but to see that even the slightest glimmer of possibility took so much worry out of his eyes.†   (source)
  • Now whenever trouble is coming, Tatica feels a glimmer of the old burning in the centipede trail on her belly.†   (source)
  • Then I have a glimmer of an idea.†   (source)
  • I thought I detected a glimmer of sadness in his eyes, a real kind of pain, but just as quickly, it was gone, replaced by his usual confident expression.†   (source)
  • Not a glimmer.†   (source)
  • If Seabiscuit got the rail, the experts believed he might have a glimmer of a chance.†   (source)
  • Watching the rocks glimmer, my new friends talking in soft murmurs, I wonder if this is what the days look and feel like for my father, wrapped tight inside his laudanum cocoon.†   (source)
  • There isn't even a glimmer of violence in him.†   (source)
  • He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was now in jail, about Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that.†   (source)
  • He smiled at Shaunee, and even from where I was sitting I could see the flirty glimmer in his eyes.†   (source)
  • She passed out of the room with a glimmer and a rustle.†   (source)
  • Gradually, a familiar glimmer came to life in my eyes and normal color seeped back into my cheeks.†   (source)
  • 'But you're not being fair,' he said with the first glimmer of expression in his voice.†   (source)
  • At times Trueba thought he caught a glimmer of murderous hatred in his eyes, but there was never cause to rebuke him for any insolence.†   (source)
  • Milo turned toward him with a faint glimmer of mischief.†   (source)
  • If he is a hopeful kid by nature, it may be because in his darkest moments some glimmer of light has often appeared.†   (source)
  • Karenin followed him with his eyes, which seemed to show a glimmer of interest, but he did not pick himself up.†   (source)
  • A glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • I know she's trying to return my bad joke with one of her own and part of me is thankful for that, and thankful to see a glimmer of her old sense of humor.†   (source)
  • A glimmer of anticipation lit his eyes.†   (source)
  • Only in the Brotherhood had there seemed a chance for such as us, the mere glimmer of a light, but behind the polished and humane facade of Jack's eye I'd found an amorphous form and a harsh red rawness.†   (source)
  • They were a first glimmer of hope, though hardly enough.†   (source)
  • Miss Bradford was, as I have said, a proud and sour young woman, whose only glimmer of goodness seemed to come from a real solicitude for her unhappy mother.†   (source)
  • As long as I had a chance—a glimmer of hope in a tunnel of darkness—all I had to do was clear my head, rid myself of any self-pity, and forge ahead.†   (source)
  • Its curling tips trapped the last glimmer of the light.†   (source)
  • Other than the faint tree-filtered glimmer of moonlight on the window glass, the only light in the room came from the backlit buttons on the telephone keypad beside the mattress.†   (source)
  • Before they can read their school primers, watermen learn how to read the sky and to head for the safety of a cove at the first glimmer of trouble.†   (source)
  • You knew it couldn't last forever, but you'd stand for hours, hoping for the chance to experience just a glimmer of it once again.†   (source)
  • The moon was down, and the hallways of the palace were lit by the glimmer of small lanterns at the intersections of corridors.†   (source)
  • The ki-rin was so swift, so instinctive that Max had only to spy some unholy glimmer amid the throng and seconds later they were crashing down upon it.†   (source)
  • I had a glimmer of something I didn't like.†   (source)
  • At that time I only had a glimmer of this intuition.†   (source)
  • We occupied the top floor, under the name of Glimmer & Company.†   (source)
  • The long gentle slope (heather and grass and a few very big rocks that shone white in the moonlight) stretched up to where it vanished in a glimmer of trees about half a mile away.†   (source)
  • It is also a glimmer of hope, reminding him that the noble cause is alive and well, and why he must do what he must do.†   (source)
  • A glimmer of hope returned to Cassius's eyes.†   (source)
  • The glimmer of hope that had surged through me had been so real, so tactile, I'd already imagined myself escaping….†   (source)
  • Sure, today we haven't a glimmer.†   (source)
  • He'd seen my family's small glimmer of hope squashed over and over again by doctor after doctor, had results after bad results.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he saw a glimmer of hope that with the Americans involved in battle, his army of Reds might win a victory after all.†   (source)
  • Yet Jean awoke in the stillness of the night, and lay for a moment staring at the ghostly glimmer from the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Why had she not been able to detect the warning signals when they began to glimmer?†   (source)
  • The idea was a glimmer one instant, an entire sequence the next … Continuing my arc and moving faster, I made another thrust toward his photoreceptors.†   (source)
  • GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE The turn in the road was illumined By the indifferent glimmer of the remote stars.†   (source)
  • There wasn't a glimmer of pain in it.†   (source)
  • "You will be a mother even before she is," he replied with a glimmer of a smile, "for it seems you have no difficulty."†   (source)
  • Peter Van Winkle of West Virginia, the last doubtful Republican name to be called on May 16, was, like Ross, a "nobody"; but his firm "Not guilty" extinguished the last faint glimmer of hope which Edmund Ross had already all but destroyed.†   (source)
  • She was just a glimmer at the foot of his bed.†   (source)
  • She could see a glimmer that was the surface of the mirror.†   (source)
  • Despite the ominous description, Minho had a glimmer of hope in his eyes.†   (source)
  • A fleeting glimmer of light surrounded him, and then the casket thudded back down.†   (source)
  • A look around did nothing—not even the faintest glimmer of light broke up the utter darkness.†   (source)
  • For a brief instant, Langdon felt a glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • I twisted my wrist so the heart would glimmer.†   (source)
  • Bernd sits in the glimmer of the field light and looks from Volkheimer to Werner.†   (source)
  • I watch Glimmer fall, twitch hysterically around on the ground for a few minutes, and then go still.†   (source)
  • At that moment, Langdon saw a faint purple glimmer on the protective glass before the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • But as I passed him I caught a glimmer of something other in his eye.†   (source)
  • A glimmer of pain flashed across her face, so real and endless that he felt it in his gut.†   (source)
  • When a glimmer of light appeared in the eastern sky, he parked and walked around aimlessly.†   (source)
  • As the water washed it clean, I got a glimmer of something exceptionally bright and shiny.†   (source)
  • LALE and Gita hold on to their glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • I saw a dim glimmer of possibility in that smile, but I proceeded slowly.†   (source)
  • Fadey's eyes glimmer in the light as she surveys us both, thinking.†   (source)
  • Vittoria saw a glimmer of hope in Langdon's eyes and realized what he was thinking.†   (source)
  • She caught a glimmer of reflected light from David's eyes as he nodded.†   (source)
  • She saw it then, just the faintest glimmer of a smile in his eyes.†   (source)
  • The same way I wondered if Glimmer's eyes were in that mutt last year.†   (source)
  • Glimmer and another girl, the one from District 4, are not so lucky.†   (source)
  • I personally killed the girl, Glimmer, and the boy from District 1.†   (source)
  • Langdon stood suddenly, and Sophie sensed an unexpected glimmer of contentment in his eyes.†   (source)
  • My father had a dark glimmer in his eye as he moved behind her.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's a trick of the moonlight, but something like tears glimmer in his eyes.†   (source)
  • The blonde hair, the green eyes, the number …. it's Glimmer.†   (source)
  • "None of them were very pretty," I say, thinking of Glimmer's and Cato's ends.†   (source)
  • There was a cunning glimmer in the man's eye.†   (source)
  • Watching Glimmer twitching to death on the ground.†   (source)
  • Glimmer's bloated body disintegrating in my hands.†   (source)
  • Not Glimmer or the girl from District 4.†   (source)
  • And I refuse to let them slip through my fingers again! I reach Glimmer just as the cannon fires.†   (source)
  • I don't want to think about what Glimmer must look like now.†   (source)
  • The plaster casts of arms and legs glimmer whitely, like broken statues in a ruin.†   (source)
  • Jaime touched it and watched the gold glimmer in the sullen light of the braziers.†   (source)
  • Then she caught the first glimmer of red, blue, green lights flickering.†   (source)
  • Through the Hall doors Clary could see the bright glimmer of the Portal in the square.†   (source)
  • Her purple cloak fluttered, revealing the glimmer of her armor.†   (source)
  • If I try to see, and he catches even a glimmer, all could be lost.†   (source)
  • You may see the first glimmer of dawn upon the golden roof of the house of Eorl.†   (source)
  • There was a faint glimmer of amber light ahead.†   (source)
  • I saw my reflection glimmer in his agonized eyes as the sun touched my own skin.†   (source)
  • The light was dim, but she saw a faint glimmer of a blade.†   (source)
  • Then she saw the bright glimmer of steel.†   (source)
  • In the darkness they caught the white glimmer of foam, where the river flowed over a short fall.†   (source)
  • What if there was even the faintest glimmer of a possibility that I could shield them, too?†   (source)
  • I'm glad you are finally showing a glimmer of interest in the craft of Herodotus.†   (source)
  • I can see the white glimmer of her face, the dark scarf or hood around her head, or is it hair?†   (source)
  • By then Jon had seen it too: the glimmer of a fire, reddening the chimney of the inn.†   (source)
  • He looks from Ann to me, and finally, there's a glimmer of recognition.†   (source)
  • His eyes widen just slightly as he looks closer, and I catch the glimmer of recognition in them.†   (source)
  • Crows perch on the headstones, and just before my eyes shut, I think I see a faint glimmer.†   (source)
  • Jon could make out the faint red glimmer of distant fires moving through the wood.†   (source)
  • Dr. Van Ripple's eyes glimmer with interest.†   (source)
  • A glimmer of a smile lights Ann's face for a moment.†   (source)
  • "I'm willing to take that chance," I say, embracing the glimmer of hope I've been offered.†   (source)
  • No; she looked at him, a huddle under blankets, his face a pallid glimmer in the growing dawn.†   (source)
  • He lay stretched on his back in the glimmer and shade of trampled sand.†   (source)
  • A glimmer of light came from within, but Mary did not appear.†   (source)
  • But those weren't Glimmer's eyes.†   (source)
  • Looking out the window I can see it, a glimmer, like the phosphorescence you get in stirred seawater, behind the sky, which is overcast and too low and a dull gray infrared.†   (source)
  • She's glad that on the day I met him, I saw a glimmer of that person and was patient enough to get to know him in full.†   (source)
  • There was a glimmer of light as both he and Rachel awoke on the HS Intrepid outward bound for Parvati to transfer to the treeship Yggdrasill for the planet Hyperion.†   (source)
  • His face was pink and swollen with premature middle age, and I thought, not for the first time, how there'd been no freedom for Platt in his refusal to grow up, how by slacking off too long he'd managed to destroy every last glimmer of his hereditary privilege; and now he was always going to be loitering at the margins of the party with his gin and lime while his baby brother Toddy—still in college—stood talking in a group which included the president of an Ivy League college, a…†   (source)
  • Three days growth of coarse black beard covered his jaw and cheeks, but if he did not shave it was not for want of a razor; the edge of his sword had the dangerous glimmer of steel that had been honed every day for hours, until it was too sharp to touch.†   (source)
  • I was afraid the Minister would be angry, but instead his expression softened until I began to see what I felt certain was a glimmer of pride.†   (source)
  • He found a glimmer of hope in the ruins of disaster, for it seemed to him that Fermina Daza's misfortune glorified her, that her anger beautified her, and that her rancor with the world had given her back the untamed character she had displayed at the age of twenty.†   (source)
  • Peter and Katherine had lost loved ones, and for anyone in that position, the faintest hint of the human spirit continuing after death brought a glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • "What's that?" he interrupted, heading for a dull glimmer of gray he'd just noticed behind the ivy on the wall, about head high.†   (source)
  • It may not work, but I don't see that we can give up in a situation where we still have even a glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • And one light off to their left grew brighter, began to wink back at the cliff—very fast: blinksquirt, glimmer, blink!†   (source)
  • Some glimmer of life is still left.†   (source)
  • Low-wattage bulbs cast a pale light that made puppies' eyes glimmer, and an old-time wall thermometer hung in each pen—one backed by a Pepsi bottle, another a blue-and-white Valvoline label, both marked with a thick black line at eighty degrees.†   (source)
  • The Grapes of Wrath, the classic novel about the Dust Bowl and the migration of Oklahoma farmers to California, ends with death and a glimmer of renewed life.†   (source)
  • From there, she wandered to the lagoon, where early light caught the glimmer of hundreds of dragonfly wings.†   (source)
  • Werner remembers crouching next to his cot with Jutta after the Frenchman would sign off, the windows rattling from some passing coal train, the echo of the broadcast seeming to glimmer in the air for a moment, as though he could reach out and let it float down into his hands.†   (source)
  • Still, in the depth of his thundering there was a glimmer of tenderness that broke the hearts of his listeners as if they were the crystal vases of the great Caruso, and it was this that made him so revered at funerals.†   (source)
  • We'll see, but it's a glimmer of hope."†   (source)
  • Two hundred cycles of civilization had been crawling through a dark tunnel, and there was finally a glimmer of light before them.†   (source)
  • But it was her golden hair that caught the attention of most, hair that still maintained a glimmer of its glory.†   (source)
  • Though his features were a mask of protocol, she could have sworn she glimpsed a glimmer of amusement in his eyes.†   (source)
  • She saw the book immediately, tucked against the back wall, but as her fingers grappled onto the cover, a glimmer of candlelight traced a white line across the floor beneath her bed.†   (source)
  • "I'm afraid the boy will be having an appointment with my folk shortly after the whipping, Kilvin," Arwyl said with a glimmer of amusement in his eyes.†   (source)
  • One of the mutts, unmistakably the blond, green-eyed one meant to be Glimmer, snarling as it makes its way toward us.†   (source)
  • They're polite but cool, and I spend the whole time thinking about how I killed both the tributes from their district, Glimmer and Marvel, last year, and that they probably knew them and might even have been their mentors.†   (source)
  • Clenching my jaw, I dig my hands under Glimmer's body, get a hold on what must be her rib cage, and force her onto her stomach.†   (source)
  • I throw myself over Glimmer's body as if to protect it but then I see the girl from District 4 being lifted into the air and vanishing.†   (source)
  • I guess technically I'd get credited for Glimmer and the girl from District 4, too, for dumping that nest on them.†   (source)
  • They know I have the bow and arrows, of course, Cato saw me take them from Glimmer's body, but have they put two and two together yet?†   (source)
  • By her position, leaning up against the trunk of the tree, I'd guess Glimmer was supposed to be on guard, but fatigue overcame her.†   (source)
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