Brief gander

Usage examples of glim.

With any luck at all, you will never focus your glims upon Miss Ames, no matter how illustrious her fortune, or by virtue of whatever scheme your papa and her papa concocted so many years ago.

I now took my rest, when I rested, Bex told me that the glims had taken her father.

Her father again insisted he was going back into town, but Bex told him the glims were looking for him.

My glim showed me the keyhole, and I cut the lock, which was mortised into the thickness of the door, clean away, taking a square which gave ample margin beyond the edges of the lock.

Jack to Stephen some time later, when the ship could be allowed a glim behind her deadlights and the dark-lanterns were put out.

Glims in paper holders shed light on hundreds of men and doxies and quite a few children scampering about.

We start toward them, the rest of the Tels allowing Glim and me a chance to absorb the scenery.

I was seeing whether m'lead was getting hot, and I heard 'em call to douse the glim, an'—.

Even the unsettled tertiaries had lights erected along them, though the lights barely glim mered, and the land itself had long since been claimed on speculation toward the time when even those minuscule intersections would be capped and lowered.