Both Uses of
glimmer
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- A glimmering fairy boy with yellow eyes smiles up at me.†
Chpt 29 *glimmering = shining (with a dim or wavering light)
- 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.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(glimmer as in: a glimmer of hope) a slight indication of something -- such as hope or interest
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(2)
(glimmer as in: glimmering lights) a dim, wavering, or reflected light