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glimmer as in:  a glimmer of hope

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  • Even in the midst of despair, she held onto that glimmer of faith that things would get better.
    glimmer = slight feeling
  • 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
  • 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
  • She'd had the faintest glimmer of an imagining to slow Bibwit down and then--bam!   (source)
    glimmer = slight amount
  • 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)
  • But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor—which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that that simple little prayer, sacred to white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing bout God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.   (source)
    glimmerings = a slight indication
  • 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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  • We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.   (source)
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glimmer as in:  glimmering lights

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  • In the pitch-black cave, the faint glimmer from our torch was the only source of light.
    glimmer = dim, wavering light
  • 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)
  • 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
  • When morning comes and the parking lot glimmers with dew, I see the billboard on the highway.   (source)
    glimmers = shines
  • The crystal trophy cases glimmered where the moonlight caught them.   (source)
    glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)
  • 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
  • A candle inside a tall red glass threw glints and glimmers across her body.   (source)
    glimmers = dim, wavering light
  • A lone osprey hovered overhead, attracted by a glimmer of baitfish in the shallows.   (source)
    glimmer = wavering glimpse of the colors
  • 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)
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  • 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
  • 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
  • Gossamers glimmered like threads of silver among the trees and the fir boughs and tassels seemed to utter friendly speech.   (source)
    glimmered = shined
  • When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.   (source)
    glimmering = shining (with a dim or 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)
  • Yet there it was, the tree, its branches spread out like a hard thick net, its white-moth flowers glimmering faintly.†   (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)
  • Then I saw something glimmering in the darkness below, growing bigger and brighter as it rose toward me.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Chuck turned and gave him a thumbs-up; his eyes glimmered with tears.†   (source)
  • We're skimming the treetops now, big leaves are glimmering below us, and there are coffee bushes over there, smell them?" and Marie-Laure will indeed smell something, whether because her uncle is passing coffee grounds beneath her nose, or because they really are flying over the coffee trees of Borneo, she does not want to decide.†   (source)
  • Now he could see the Milky Way, see it as he had never seen it before, a glimmering shroud across the arch of the sky.†   (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)
  • A large ring of black, iridescent stone glimmered on Cain's finger—strange that he'd wear it to practice.†   (source)
  • His rings glimmered in the torchlight, red-gold and pale silver, crusted with rubies, sapphires, slitted yellow tiger eyes.†   (source)
  • The Hall itself casts a glimmering shadow over me, and I find myself staring in stupid awe again.†   (source)
  • The high ceiling had been hung with hundreds of crimson paper lanterns, each one glimmering with rich, golden light.†   (source)
  • Another low door led to a backyard, where there were more banana trees, beyond which the river glimmered through the foliage.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of them, hovering a thousand feet up, motionless, their gray underbellies glimmering in the light.†   (source)
  • Beatty's pink phosphorescent cheeks glimmered in the high darkness, and he was smiling furiously.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The tree leaves against the window glimmered green with veins of chlorophyll blood.†   (source)
  • She walked a ways downriver and then stood gazing at the glimmering water.†   (source)
  • The coals still glimmered in places, giving me enough light to see the great beast roll around, flip.†   (source)
  • On my closed eyelids the sun glimmered and blazed.†   (source)
  • Tuxedos and glimmering starched shirts; evening gowns; the band playing; gleaming high-heeled pumps.†   (source)
  • A few stars glimmered palely in the light sky.†   (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)
  • Water glimmered in a stone-bound rock pool.†   (source)
  • The lights in the trees glimmered as Edward led me through the glass back doors, making the white flowers glow.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It was a glimmering memory of my own.†   (source)
  • In the corner, a shred of tinsel glimmered with leftover holiday cheer.†   (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)
  • The silver specks that covered it glimmered in the candlelight whenever I moved.†   (source)
  • The fairy people were dressed in gold and lavender gauze with satin trimming that glimmered under the colored spotlight.†   (source)
  • She is down to a G-string, a glimmering translucent shawl, and a gloriously overflowing brassiere.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Now her eyes glimmered with tears, and Fox quite simply wanted to step into the street into the path of a passing truck.†   (source)
  • A glimmering fairy boy with yellow eyes smiles up at me.†   (source)
  • Another burst of golden fireworks filled the eastern sky, expanding like a rose before arcing back to earth with a glimmering hiss.†   (source)
  • When I spoke, he looked up, eyes glimmering as he saw my face.†   (source)
  • Something had glimmered in Palmgren's eyes when he said the name Zalachenko.†   (source)
  • The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked black peat, where water lay and sharp white stones, some as big as a pigeon's, some as a rabbit's skull, glimmered in the moonlight.†   (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)
  • The bridge the Roush had called the Crossing glimmered fifty yards upriver, white in the rising moonlight.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Glimmering beneath is the Augur-forged shirt Hel won in the Trial of Cunning.†   (source)
  • Glimmering pink petals unfurled from pods he hadn't noticed before, like fingertips reaching out in the dark.†   (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)
  • One truck pulled a trailer stacked with tools that glimmered in the moonlight.†   (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)
  • Yellow lamplight glimmered across Lisa's somber face, and shadows swooped up the walls of the Delmanns' kitchen.†   (source)
  • Its bare patches glimmered in the fuzzy light.†   (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)
  • Three little towheads glimmering away through the trees; so non-Whitshank-like.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She gazed into the glimmering dusk, beneath the coverlet felt her fingernails slice like blades into the flesh of her palm, thought: Why does he have to say that now?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • After a while, when the room was quite dark, and only the pale walls glimmered, reflecting the light that still glowed in the tops of the trees, though their lower boughs held the shadows of dusk, she got up, and put a match to the lamp.†   (source)
  • Now there came a glimmer of a red light before them.   (source)
    glimmer = faint glow
  • Kino and Juana watched it go, winking and glimmering under the setting sun.   (source)
    glimmering = shining (with a dim or wavering light)
  • A white glimmer could be seen coming through some opening far above, and the air smelt sweeter.   (source)
    glimmer = faint glow
  • As theft eyes became used to the dimness they could see a little way to either side in a sort of darkened green glimmer.   (source)
  • There were passages leading off to the side every now and then, as he knew by the glimmer of his sword, or could feel with his hand on the wall.   (source)
  • He hurried a little, getting as close as he dared behind Gollum, who was still going quickly, not looking back, but turning his head from side to side, as Bilbo could see from the faint glimmer on the walls.   (source)
    glimmer = dim light
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  • From there, she wandered to the lagoon, where early light caught the glimmer of hundreds of dragonfly wings.†   (source)
  • I watch Glimmer fall, twitch hysterically around on the ground for a few minutes, and then go still.†   (source)
  • Something blue, that glimmers down there at the end of the garden, the phosphorescence of snow in shadow.†   (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)
  • Two hundred cycles of civilization had been crawling through a dark tunnel, and there was finally a glimmer of light before them.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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  • "The tomb..." he said suddenly, facing them with a faint glimmer of hope in his eyes.†   (source)
  • A few minutes passed before Thomas saw the first glimmer of light shine off the Maze walls up ahead.†   (source)
  • On the opposite bank, he could see tiny glimmers of silver — his own attempts at a Patronus — There was a bush at the very edge of the water.†   (source)
  • And behind them, a moonlit glimmer that might have been the sea.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It was the first glimmer of hope for Jim Williams in nearly a year.†   (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)
  • But it was her golden hair that caught the attention of most, hair that still maintained a glimmer of its glory.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Mom recovers first and, without a glimmer of fear, takes my hand.†   (source)
  • He saw only the glimmer of the whites of her eyes.†   (source)
  • For some reason, he felt a glimmer of possibility, almost as if this idea had been divinely inspired.†   (source)
  • Getting up in the dark, she couldn't see a thing—there wasn't a glimmer of light.†   (source)
  • My father could see glimmers, like the colored flecks inside my mother's eyes—things to hold on to.†   (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)
  • They glimmer in the distance like jewels.†   (source)
  • He was standing with his back to Arthur watching the very last glimmers of light sink into blackness behind the horizon.†   (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 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)
  • Some glimmer of life is still left.†   (source)
  • "And," Mack was still struggling, although a glimmer of light seemed to begin to shine into his mind.†   (source)
  • I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.†   (source)
  • But our little fetching exercise offered a glimmer of hope.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Jasper sat motionlessly at the desk in the corner, his eyes watching the news with no glimmer of interest.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Or the woman at Mountain View Wesleyan who needed a glimmer of hope to help her cope with her grief.†   (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)
  • But when the NAACP and her parents announced they would push to have a hearing, I kept a glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • There was the faintest glimmer of the fire in his eyes, red warming the blackness there to the richer brown.†   (source)
  • She did not bandage it but tipped the flow over the cutting edge, letting the blood dull the blade's sharp glimmer.†   (source)
  • Not a glimmer.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I passed my message succinctly: "Sniper Two One, this is Glimmer Three-preparing to move."†   (source)
  • I began to feel a glimmer of hope.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Surprise and a deep, inconsolable pain sprang onto Sloan's vulnerable face, along with the glimmer of tears.†   (source)
  • I saw the glimmer of bare skin, like a pale veil separating two bloody-minded adversaries.†   (source)
  • And one light off to their left grew brighter, began to wink back at the cliff—very fast: blinksquirt, glimmer, blink!†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I think he was looking for a glimmer of understanding.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • How on earth could they make out such tiny print in the glimmer of that miserable lamp?†   (source)
  • Another minute and I can see, faintly through the trees, the glimmer of the light from the streetlamps.†   (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)
  • Its curling tips trapped the last glimmer of the light.†   (source)
  • Now whenever trouble is coming, Tatica feels a glimmer of the old burning in the centipede trail on her belly.†   (source)
  • He smiled at Shaunee, and even from where I was sitting I could see the flirty glimmer in his eyes.†   (source)
  • Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or a flea that lived on the bodies of men.†   (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)
  • If he is a hopeful kid by nature, it may be because in his darkest moments some glimmer of light has often appeared.†   (source)
  • Backing slowly away from the raven, Clary turned and dashed toward the front doors of the Hall and the glimmer of the Portal beyond.†   (source)
  • The single glimmer of hope was confirmation from Schuyler, on January 18, that the guns from Ticonderoga were on the way.†   (source)
  • Karenin followed him with his eyes, which seemed to show a glimmer of interest, but he did not pick himself up.†   (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)
  • 'Odious,' Colonel Korn agreed amiably, and waited, watching Yossarian patiently with a glimmer of private delight.†   (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)
  • Now Cal saw the tears glimmer in those almond-shaped eyes.†   (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)
  • The observatory dome had brightened, and the stars were but faint glimmers against a smooth wash of middling blue.†   (source)
  • He sat there, stroking his beard, while the resolve on his face softened into a glimmer of possibility.†   (source)
  • As they went along it the glimmer grew stronger, and they saw that it came through a doorway on their right.†   (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)
  • A glimmer of eagerness lit her eye.†   (source)
  • Soon after, I crest a rise and spot something strange ahead: glimmers of light, like moonlight shining down on a lake.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I had a glimmer of something I didn't like.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • In the glimmer of an instant, for the price of a 50-cent galloping fee he was probably never paid, Pollard lost the sight in his right eye forever.†   (source)
  • Sure, today we haven't a glimmer.†   (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)
  • Terrified goblins fled from the darkness of the demon's passing shadow, for even in the faint glimmer of a thin moon, the creature of the Abyss left a wake of blackness that made the night seem bright in comparison.†   (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)
  • There isn't even a glimmer of violence in him.†   (source)
  • In that day's register, I'd written that in the absence of actual events, it was likely that Glimmer & Company itself was involved in the manufacturing of happenings, creating intrigue and complication for the sake of extending funded research.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.†   (source)
  • The glimmer of hope that had surged through me had been so real, so tactile, I'd already imagined myself escaping...Police helicopters descending on The Shade and lifting me and the girls out of here, back home to safety.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • At that time I only had a glimmer of this intuition.†   (source)
  • It was filled with brightening glimmers, like flame, but not flame; filled with shapes, faces, half-remembered images.†   (source)
  • With tired, gritty eyes she brooded out across the desolate cityscape, over which the sun never seemed to cast a glimmer.†   (source)
  • Yet Jean awoke in the stillness of the night, and lay for a moment staring at the ghostly glimmer from the ceiling.†   (source)
  • GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE
    The turn in the road was illumined
    By the indifferent glimmer of the remote stars.†   (source)
  • In a glimmer of gaiety, both were on the verge of parting with their customary morning farewell, she singing, "Good-bye John, don't stay long, he singing back, "I'll be back in a week or two, but both thought better of it.†   (source)
  • He pulled her back, "You boys been sighting any birds this way?" the white glimmer asked courteously, and then it passed behind another tree.†   (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)
  • The dull flame in the hanging lamp burned low, making a little intimate glimmer of light that sent up broken arcs of light into the darkness under the roof, illuminating a slope of corrugated metal, and a beam.†   (source)
  • Despite the ominous description, Minho had a glimmer of hope in his eyes.†   (source)
  • I saw my reflection glimmer in his agonized eyes as the sun touched my own skin.†   (source)
  • A look around did nothing—not even the faintest glimmer of light broke up the utter darkness.†   (source)
  • I twisted my wrist so the heart would glimmer.†   (source)
  • Model automobiles glimmer on Frederick's shelves.†   (source)
  • Not Glimmer or the girl from District 4.†   (source)
  • As the water washed it clean, I got a glimmer of something exceptionally bright and shiny.†   (source)
  • One glimmer of hope—a tiny one at that—shone through my seemingly impossible situation.†   (source)
  • I saw a dim glimmer of possibility in that smile, but I proceeded slowly.†   (source)
  • Langdon stood suddenly, and Sophie sensed an unexpected glimmer of contentment in his eyes.†   (source)
  • When I turned it in my fingers, the glimmer jumped from one face to another.†   (source)
  • LALE and Gita hold on to their glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • Fadey's eyes glimmer in the light as she surveys us both, thinking.†   (source)
  • She caught a glimmer of reflected light from David's eyes as he nodded.†   (source)
  • The Captain looked at Fermina Daza and saw on her eyelashes the first glimmer of wintry frost.†   (source)
  • My father had a dark glimmer in his eye as he moved behind her.†   (source)
  • But Sha then deprived him of this last glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • I personally killed the girl, Glimmer, and the boy from District 1.†   (source)
  • Not a shield glimmer showed on any of them.†   (source)
  • The journey gave me a glimmer of how hard this is for them.†   (source)
  • 'But you're not being fair,' he said with the first glimmer of expression in his voice.†   (source)
  • For a brief instant, Langdon felt a glimmer of hope.†   (source)
  • Vittoria saw a glimmer of hope in Langdon's eyes and realized what he was thinking.†   (source)
  • It's a chilling moment that offers a glimmer of the delusion he lives with.†   (source)
  • She scanned the twisting city streets and the winding glimmer of the river.†   (source)
  • What if there was even the faintest glimmer of a possibility that I could shield them, too?†   (source)
  • A glimmer of pain flashed across her face, so real and endless that he felt it in his gut.†   (source)
  • Glimmer and another girl, the one from District 4, are not so lucky.†   (source)
  • There was a cunning glimmer in the man's eye.†   (source)
  • At that moment, Langdon saw a faint purple glimmer on the protective glass before the Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's a trick of the moonlight, but something like tears glimmer in his eyes.†   (source)
  • "None of them were very pretty," I say, thinking of Glimmer's and Cato's ends.†   (source)
  • A fleeting glimmer of light surrounded him, and then the casket thudded back down.†   (source)
  • When a glimmer of light appeared in the eastern sky, he parked and walked around aimlessly.†   (source)
  • Bernd sits in the glimmer of the field light and looks from Volkheimer to Werner.†   (source)
  • Watching Glimmer twitching to death on the ground.†   (source)
  • But as I passed him I caught a glimmer of something other in his eye.†   (source)
  • Glimmer's bloated body disintegrating in my hands.†   (source)
  • The same way I wondered if Glimmer's eyes were in that mutt last year.†   (source)
  • The blonde hair, the green eyes, the number ...it's Glimmer.†   (source)
  • I struggle again to remember that moment over Glimmer's body, when he burst through the trees.†   (source)
  • I don't want to think about what Glimmer must look like now.†   (source)
  • I reach Glimmer just as the cannon fires.†   (source)
  • Her purple cloak fluttered, revealing the glimmer of her armor.†   (source)
  • There was a faint glimmer of amber light ahead.†   (source)
  • If I try to see, and he catches even a glimmer, all could be lost.†   (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)
  • His eyes widen just slightly as he looks closer, and I catch the glimmer of recognition in them.†   (source)
  • They were a first glimmer of hope, though hardly enough.†   (source)
  • Milo turned toward him with a faint glimmer of mischief.†   (source)
  • Then she caught the first glimmer of red, blue, green lights flickering.†   (source)
  • Then she saw the bright glimmer of steel.†   (source)
  • A glimmer of hope returned to Cassius's eyes.†   (source)
  • If Seabiscuit got the rail, the experts believed he might have a glimmer of a chance.†   (source)
  • She saw it then, just the faintest glimmer of a smile in his eyes.†   (source)
  • We occupied the top floor, under the name of Glimmer & Company.†   (source)
  • You may see the first glimmer of dawn upon the golden roof of the house of Eorl.†   (source)
  • Jon could make out the faint red glimmer of distant fires moving through the wood.†   (source)
  • I can see the white glimmer of her face, the dark scarf or hood around her head, or is it hair?†   (source)
  • A glimmer of a smile lights Ann's face for a moment.†   (source)
  • Gradually, a familiar glimmer came to life in my eyes and normal color seeped back into my cheeks.†   (source)
  • Through the Hall doors Clary could see the bright glimmer of the Portal in the square.†   (source)
  • In the darkness they caught the white glimmer of foam, where the river flowed over a short fall.†   (source)
  • By then Jon had seen it too: the glimmer of a fire, reddening the chimney of the inn.†   (source)
  • She passed out of the room with a glimmer and a rustle.†   (source)
  • Crows perch on the headstones, and just before my eyes shut, I think I see a faint glimmer.†   (source)
  • The light was dim, but she saw a faint glimmer of a blade.†   (source)
  • "I'm willing to take that chance," I say, embracing the glimmer of hope I've been offered.†   (source)
  • Dr. Van Ripple's eyes glimmer with interest.†   (source)
  • He looks from Ann to me, and finally, there's a glimmer of recognition.†   (source)
  • Why had she not been able to detect the warning signals when they began to glimmer?†   (source)
  • He lay stretched on his back in the glimmer and shade of trampled sand.†   (source)
  • I'm glad you are finally showing a glimmer of interest in the craft of Herodotus.†   (source)
  • She could see a glimmer that was the surface of the mirror.†   (source)
  • No; she looked at him, a huddle under blankets, his face a pallid glimmer in the growing dawn.†   (source)
  • She was just a glimmer at the foot of his bed.†   (source)
  • A glimmer of light came from within, but Mary did not appear.†   (source)
  • One of the mutts, unmistakably the blond, green-eyed one meant to be Glimmer, snarling as it makes its way toward us.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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