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Definition
a dim, wavering, or reflected light
- 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.Chapter 5 (3% in)
glimmer = dim, wavering light
- I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light.Chapter 4 (44% in)
- The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.Chapter 21 (80% in)
- Frankenstein has daily declined in health; a feverish fire still glimmers in his eyes, but he is exhausted, and when suddenly roused to any exertion, he speedily sinks again into apparent lifelessness.Chapter 24 (55% in)
glimmering = dim, wavering light
glimmer = dim, wavering light
glimmers = dimly wavers
There are no more uses of "glimmer" in Frankenstein.
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