All 17 Uses of
glimpse
in
Childhood's End
- He had almost reached the narrow road along the edge of the sands when some premonition, some half-glimpsed movement, made him stop.†
Chpt 1glimpsed = briefly saw
- There could be no doubt that its scholarship and virtuosity, its tantali7ing glimpses of knowledge still untapped were deliberately designed to convince mankind that it was in the presence of overwhelming intellectual power.†
Chpt 2glimpses = briefly sees; or instances of briefly seeing
- He caught a glimpse of a man silhouetted against a dimly lit background: then the door closed again and the darkness returned.†
Chpt 3glimpse = a quick look or partial understanding
- As he climbed into the little flying machine, Stormgren had a last glimpse of the mine entrance and the men frozen around it.†
Chpt 3
- I've caught a glimpse of it once, and I'd say that its tentacle-spread is the best part of thirty metres.†
Chpt 7
- He was watching the screen intently, absorbing each glimpse of this strange and unknown region as it passed before his eyes.†
Chpt 11
- It was after another twenty minutes of slow descent that the Invisible fingers of the scanner beams caught the first glimpse of the ocean bed.†
Chpt 11
- Jan caught a last glimpse of a giant, sucker-studded arm whipping away at their approach.†
Chpt 11
- The scene was one that, until the perfection of underwater television, few men had ever glimpsed-and even then only for seconds on those rare occasions when the giant antagonists thrashed their way to the surface.†
Chpt 13glimpsed = briefly saw
- There are other, subtler laws, first glimpsed in the early twentieth century by mathematicians such as Weiner and Rashavesky.†
Chpt 15
- Yet nothing moved: the scene was frozen as if glimpsed in a flash of lightning.†
Chpt 18
- But we have glimpsed only the vague outlines of the truth.†
Chpt 20
- Humnriity still had very far to go before it could play any part in the civilization he had glimpsed.†
Chpt 22
- But of one thing he was certain-men would want to hear his story, and to know what he had glimpsed of the civilization of the Overlords.†
Chpt 22
- Between these investigations, he caught momentary glimpses of the city, and realized how difficult-and dangerous-it would be for him to travel around in it.†
Chpt 22glimpses = briefly sees; or instances of briefly seeing
- Jan had glimpsed the universe in all its awful immensity, and knew now that it was no place for man.†
Chpt 23 *glimpsed = briefly saw
- It seems to have some sort of structure-I can glimpse a hazy network of lines and bands that keep changing their positions.†
Chpt 24glimpse = a quick look or partial understanding
Definition:
a quick look or partial understanding
The exact meaning of glimpse can depend upon its context. For example:
- "I caught a glimpse of her when I was walking to class." -- a very quick look
- "I glimpsed at the headlines." -- looked quickly
- "Reading the book gave me a glimpse of the life of a devout Muslim immigrant in America." -- a quick, incomplete view