5 uses
- Holmes groaned, and his face glimmered white through the darkness.Chapter 12 — Death on the Moor (61% in)
- Baskerville shuddered as he looked up the long, dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end.Chapter 6 — Baskerville Hall (60% in)
- When I came round the balcony he had reached the end of the farther corridor, and I could see from the glimmer of light through an open door that he had entered one of the rooms.Chapter 8 — First Report of Dr. Watson (90% in)
- The baronet caught my sleeve and his face glimmered white through the darkness.Chapter 9 — Second Report of Dr. Watson (76% in)
- There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.Chapter 9 — Second Report of Dr. Watson (83% in)
There are no more uses of "glimmer" in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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