How To Use Glimmering In A Sentence
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The boracic powder was lifted in my absence from the _Pharmacie_ to try and get the first glimmerings of a slide on that sticky creosoted floor.
Fanny Goes to War
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The large garden around the swimming pool shone in the glimmering light of many multicolored candles.
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Before her the shadows danced illusively; the film of brightness changed and shifted; then all glimmering and partial shade were swallowed up in a black chasm.
Under the Rose
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Xenophanes says that the star-like phenomena seen when aboard ship, which some call the Dioscuri, are cloudlets, glimmering because of their kind of motion.
Presocratic Philosophy
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We see the first glimmerings of what the great political scientist Robert C. Tucker calls an ‘ethic of specieshood.’
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Then he gave another whoop significant of the extreme of nervous abashedness and the incipient defiance of his masculine estate, there was a flourish of heels, followed by a swift glimmering slide of steel, and he was off trailing his sled.
The Portion of Labor
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The air was fresh, yet warm for the season of the year and scented with leaves, earth and cool water falling down in glimmering cascades.
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The songs are washed in earnest clean rhythm guitar and nice, glimmering production.
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Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness; untilperhaps with that perverse expression glimmering from beneath her opening lidslittle Pearl awoke!
VI. Pearl
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From the first glimmerings of the idea of human rights in the UN Charter to its actual conception and final parturition in the declaration, it had to face indifference and hostility.
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The crystal was no more than a glimmering outline in the darkness.
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─but the hail has other reasons than serving and the wet eastern wind of evening does not dream of standing watch by my disenchanged lion sobs: no longer will I run after every passage of beauty,─beauty is defeated, never again at attention will I snuff out that fire now glimmering like an old tree trunk in which hollow swallows make nonsensical nests, child's lay, unreckoning misery, unreckoning misery of sympthy.
Amelia Rosselli
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How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be.
CHAPTER 19
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Oddly enough, I felt only the faintest glimmerings of anger.
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The glimmering vessel was a great schooner, with multiple masts on top and impressive quarters inside.
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There are other distant glimmerings of hope, too.
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She could see every shell which crawled on the white sand at her feet, every rock-fish which played in and out of the crannies, and stared at her with its broad bright eyes; while the great palmate oarweeds which waved along the chasm, half-seen in the glimmering water, seemed to beckon her down with long brown hands to a grave amid their chilly bowers.
Westward Ho!
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But as for the longer novel, in a blind and blundering way, constantly trapped and hindered by his want of genius and his want of taste, by his literary ill-breeding and other faults, he seems to have more of a "glimmering" of the real business than they have, or than any other Frenchman had before him.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Today their lovely parklands and orange trees remain, a medieval quarter adds charm and the modern seafront surrounds the glimmering bay.
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He spoke in the bantering tone which had become the habitual expression of his tenderness; but his eyes softened as they absorbed in a last glance the glimmering submarine light of the ancient grove, through which Undine's figure wavered nereid-like above him.
The Custom of the Country
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His face flushed from glimmering blue-white to a deathly pale grey, like a dying flower watched in time-lapse photography.
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With the smell of warm earth and fragrant fruit and flowery herbs, this is nothing if not enticing wine, glimmering red like some medieval jewel.
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I watched as his face fell, blue eyes glimmering with disappointment.
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Frustratingly unproductive weekend, caused partly by the momentary glimmerings of a social life and partly by my own hopelessness and indolence.
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Here is a lovely video of Silvanus then Chakryn by Chriz Palen, also featuring one of those glimmering, sunny "swirly" prim abuse sculptures by Gore Suntzu that I had rezzed there.
Archive 2008-08-01
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The wonderful art and contrivance wherewith it is adjusted to those ends and purposes for which it was apparently designed, the vast extent, number, and variety of objects that are at once with so much ease and quickness and pleasure suggested by it: all these afford subject for much and pleasing speculation, and may, if anything, give us some glimmering analogous prenotion of things which are placed beyond the certain discovery and comprehension of our present state.
A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
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This past year, though, has seen glimmerings of a revival in commercial, and particularly entrepreneurial, space.
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And all my austere nights of midnight oil, all the books I had read, all the wisdom I had gathered, went glimmering before the ape and tiger in me that crawled up from the abysm of my heredity, atavistic, competitive and brutal, lustful with strength and desire to outswine the swine.
Chapter 27
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Each section had the glimmerings of a good plot, but they all petered out into nothing very much.
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Although this was a landscape of vast kinetic energy through the movement of water, there were also some wonderful moments of stillness: the huge veteran oaks at Atcham poised darkly in an oxbow lake, their massive root buttresses under water; the flock of mute swans, with one black swan in their midst, grazing the glimmering edges of flooded fields at Cound.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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It moved sharply, jerking its head and staring down at them with wildfire eyes, its fangs glimmering as it hissed, then disappeared.
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He spurred his mount to catch up to the knight, the sword glimmering magical light.
Villains by Necessity
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The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations.
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Candles are glimmering, a piano is playing, pretty women in slinky dresses and high heels sway fetchingly down the staircase.
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A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning.
Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
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We begin to see the glimmerings of a solution to the problem.
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Behind the black-sailed boat, a green bamboo raft skimmed atop the glimmering water some 40 yards away.
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Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness; until — perhaps with that perverse expression glimmering from beneath her opening lids — little Pearl awoke!
The Scarlet Letter
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The crystal was no more than a glimmering outline in the darkness.
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“Mother, I have been an undutiful trouble to you, and I have my reward; but of late years I have had a kind of glimmering of a purpose in me too.
Bleak House
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When I opened them again, radiant beings clothed in glimmering white covered the sky.
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It's common to look for the first glimmerings of a signature style in an artist's early works, but it's remarkable how quickly he got his act together.
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[FOOTNOTE: I indicate by this phrase comprehensively the whole correspondence since his settling in the French capital, whether written there or elsewhere.] of the ideal within him that made him what he was as an artist we catch, if any, only rare glimmerings and glimpses.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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But I do think that as we move further, you're starting to see glimmerings of this in some experimental film documentaries for example.
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Their beehive hairdos, cat-eye sunglasses and glimmering princess dresses emoted a cockeyed cocktail-hour suburbia.
Fashion's Real Housewives
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How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be.
CHAPTER 19
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Some are songs that other bands now play, but, in his hands, they emerge as individual gems glimmering in the brilliance of his unique arrangements.
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It was a massive building lined with silver and jade, a mountainous structure glimmering in the sun.
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There are lava lamps lava-ing by the poolside bar, curvaceous white sunloungers glimmering by the sparkling pool, and slender palm trees nodding gently to the strains of ‘Blue Moon’.
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He smiled gently, pale blue eyes glimmering ever so slightly in the moonlight that flickered down through the boughs of the tree.
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I think that some animals have some glimmerings of foresight.
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There are lava lamps lava-ing by the poolside bar, curvaceous white sunloungers glimmering by the sparkling pool, and slender palm trees nodding gently to the strains of ‘Blue Moon’.
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The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations.
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The lights of the village were glimmering in the distance.
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The lights of the village were glimmering in the distance.
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The same learned authority, from whose lucid and fascinating pages we enjoyed the first glimmerings of the 'gladsome light of jurisprudence,' says (vol.i. p. 264): 'The command and application of the public force, to execute the law, maintain peace, and resist foreign invasion, are powers so exclusively of an executive nature, and require the exercise of powers so characteristical of this department, that they have always been _exclusively_ appropriated to it in every well-organized government upon earth.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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She edges past the sidelights and hangs in the glimmering darkness, tensely counting the music until her next stage entrance.
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We begin to see the glimmerings of a solution to the problem.
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The pale twilight fell, and enfolded us with unutterable tenderness, just revealing the glimmering snows of Lebanon, and leaving the glass of the sea just distinguishable from the air.
Weatherwatch
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A large barrel-shaped man in a thick, brimless hat had stepped ponderously up to the bar, and was talking to Joe with glimmering eyes.
Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck
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While reading the anonymous notes the glimmering of an idea had come to him but he could not sharpen the focus.
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Create a glimmering a gradation of colour from sophisticated dark to light shades with every move.
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A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning.
Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
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All glimmering with light, some read as striated landscapes, others as fragmented torsos.
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For respite, we walk the beach and cycle the coastal path in search of cold beer and ice-cream, past the glimmering buttercup meadows dotted with orchids and the poppy and cornflower coloured barley fields, through the rugosa clumps to the harbour.
Midsummer murder
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His friend sagged slightly then, something that looked like the beginnings of tears glimmering on his eyelashes as he pulled lax fingers into action and slowly unbuttoned his shirt.
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Auster takes another drag on the cigarillo, his green eyes glimmering in the relative gloom.
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Any face might look out from that mist, any white feet of nymph or hamadryad pass among the glimmering aisles; in the dim, lilac-tinted distance it may be that Merlin still sleeps in his vaporous magic circle.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness; until -- perhaps with that perverse expression glimmering from beneath her opening lids -- little Pearl awoke!
The Scarlet Letter
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Despite glimmerings of a recovery, its economy remains weak.
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Also, the dried husk of the coconut is sometimes used as a brush to put a glimmering shine on wooden or ceramic floors.
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As we enter a dramatically altered world, both internationally and domestically, it is only natural that we look to history for bearings, points of comparison, glimmerings of the familiar.
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The cave was glimmering with the shining gems and precious jewels that were collected over the centuries.
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He never really understood it emotionally; it was too wildly improbable; but as an intellectual concept he was able to accept it and use it, much later, in his first vague glimmerings of the science of ballistics: and the art of astrogation and ship maneuvering.
Destiny Narrowly Avoided
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The table is set as usual, with great attention to detail, with glimmering silver and shining crystal, but today I cannot find any delight in it.
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The years following the French Revolution witnessed the glimmerings of a new interest in medieval objects, some of which came to be viewed with nationalist pride.
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The stars were glimmering across the night sky and the moon's rays shone upon her.
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The song is assembly line Akon: a reedy, shouty chorus, a glimmering beat, and questionable spelling and diction ( "Na" actually means "now" in Akon's world, thus making the "na" 's in the title redundant).
Prefix
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Unlefs fome glimmerings of a future ilate Were with the mind coaeval, and innate;
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
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Mother, I have been an undutiful trouble to you, and I have my reward; but of late years I have had a kind of glimmering of a purpose in me too.
Bleak House
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It was unfurnished except for a smooth, cylindric pedestal holding a glimmering golden dish of oil.
WARCHILD
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Quickly it solidified into crystals of ice, and in only a few moments the surface of the cloak was covered with a sheen of glimmering ice.
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But by about 1956 I could see the glimmerings of the recognition that something was wrong, and then of course I was invited several times to Princeton.
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These singing-bird-parties are held in the underground rooms of houses, which are cool in summer and warm in winter, and I imagine the company and rivalry of a number of birds in the semi-darkness, with glimmering light from the 'kalian' pipes, and the bubbling of water in the pipe-bowls, and the boiling samovar tea-urns, all combine to cheat the birds pleasantly into believing that it is night-time in the spring song-season.
Persia Revisited
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Some companies are just beginning to see the glimmerings of a brighter picture and it would be wrong to choke off that potential.
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The outer door opened, and the dusty moonscape lay before them, glimmering in the earthlight.
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Beneath this window is a broad divan, and here, laved in tepid sea winds and soothed by rippling whispers against the ship's side, I sleep – the langorous, voluptuous sleep of the tropics; ... sink softly into that dim warm flood where one lies drenched, submerged in unconsciousness; a flood that ebbs slowly, slowly – bearing with it all fatigue and satiety – and leaves me on the shores of life again in a pale lilac dusk glimmering with great stars ....
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Perhaps the first glimmerings of this were the Hague Peace Conferences in 1899 and 1907 which considered various restraints on war and weapons.
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Lady Melisandre was seated the fire, her ruby glimmering against the pale skin of her throat.
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And that, of course, is the ugly flip side of Hazlittglimmering coin of hatred.
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Also, the dried husk of the coconut is sometimes used as a brush to put a glimmering shine on wooden or ceramic floors.
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Here and there, both on the river and in the fields, other lights were glimmering, whether close at hand or far away, the eye could not distinguish; they shrank together, then suddenly lengthened out into great blurs of light; grasshoppers innumerable kept up an unceasing churr, persistent as the frogs of the Pontine marshes; and across the cloudless, but dark lowering sky floated from time to time the cries of unseen birds.
Dream tales and prose poems
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White flecks of light shone through, like tiny glimmering stars.
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It was as sharp, the question, as a knife in his side, but the answer hung fire still and seemed to lose itself in the vague darkness to which the thin admitted dawn, glimmering archwise over the whole outer door, made a semicircular margin, a cold silvery nimbus that seemed to play a little as he looked -- to shift and expand and contract.
The Jolly Corner
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I had a few glimmerings of energy but nothing compared to one of your concerts.
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Chests of gold and jewels and riches appeared before him, glimmering in the darkness.
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Its churches were places of shadows and glimmering gold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lit by three glimmering chandeliers, fragranced by fresh flowers and populated with antique bronzes, it emanates warmth and dignity.
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My fear is that although there are glimmerings of the notion of sustainability in this Budget, it is largely about perpetuating the status quo and the unsustainable.
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Opportunities for creative expression should not be reserved for children who ‘earn’ them through obedience or because they display early glimmerings of star potential.
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Spotting the glimmering, jewel studded weapons, Shanza forgot to breathe.
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Instead he sat in a cushioned window embrasure, moonlight throwing shadows beneath his dark eyes, glints of glimmering copper into his hair.
Earl of Durkness
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Due to some remarkable combination of intervention of her father and brother, Kelly has landed a record contract and has the first glimmerings of success in her future.
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The air was fresh, yet warm for the season of the year and scented with leaves, earth and cool water falling down in glimmering cascades.
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The baroque linear swirls and variably sized round icons on the wall were cut from adhesive vinyl in glimmering teal, mauve and purple.
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They wept over it as they sang it, the graceless young scamps who had all broken their mothers 'prides, and I sang with them, and wept with them, and luxuriated in the pathos and the tragedy of it, and struggled to make glimmering inebriated generalisations on life and romance.
Chapter 16
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Today their lovely parklands and orange trees remain, a medieval quarter adds charm and the modern seafront surrounds the glimmering bay.
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He looked up to see a wall before him, glimmering in the sun.
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How can it flatter any reasonable man to see himself set up in effigy, and his name glimmering on oiled paper!
Chapter VI. Book III
