Brief views

Usage examples of glimpses.

Now and again she glimpses out of the corner of her eye the shades of the Cursed Ones, weeping and shouting curses because they are trapped forever on the road to the Other Side, neither dead nor living.

But as they descended further she caught only fleeting glimpses of rabbits and mice and birds.

You got glimpses of that full mouth, the glimmer of his other blue, blue eye.

I caught glimpses of his body through the water and the faint candlelight.

Richard was catching glimpses of the deer that darted just ahead of him, sprinting for its life.

There were holes on the sides that flashed the perfect smoothness of his hip, down to glimpses of thigh.

The skirt was very full and gave glimpses as she walked of tiny gold slippers and numerous petticoats.

He had cream colored boots that were over the knee but open in back, so you got glimpses of his legs to mid-calf when he walked away from you.

She moved like a ghost draped over Musette, so that you got glimpses of the other woman underneath.

The grey-blue vista of the ocean was interrupted only by occasional glimpses of a red sail far out on the water.

The moire fall had grown so thick now that only glimpses of the underlying program could be seen through the dual distortion of screens and moire.

At first glance, the mountain appeared uninhabited, but as the Brass Babboon rushed closer, they could catch glimpses of motion on the slopes and about the base.

I never had any talk with them, yet I could not help seeing them with some frequency, for they gambled in an upper-deck stateroom every day and night, and in my promenades I often had glimpses of them through their door, which stood a little ajar to let out the surplus tobacco smoke and profanity.

Near the center of the island one catches glimpses, through the trees, of ten vast stone four-story buildings, each of which covers an acre of ground.

She could smell the horses below and even catch glimpses of them through warped floorboards.