What is "glimmerings"

Usage examples of "glimmerings".

It was whiter than bleached bone, but here and there were glimmerings, like gems of the same berylline color as the sky, life within the monolith, revealed to Riane, so newly come to this creased and pitiless realm.

Directly in front of her a tidal pool shimmered blue-black in the first glimmerings of dawn.

Then suddenly, not a hundred yards from us, gushed out a flood of soft radiance, opalescent, filled with pearly glimmerings and rosy shadows of light.

In the distance, glimmerings of light from other cottages broke the night.

There was something terrible in the Druid’s expression, glimmerings of fierce determination, power, and death.

Trappings and weapons creaked and jingled in the early morning stillness, flashed in dull glimmerings through the new light, and cast the Elves in half-human forms that whispered of death.

There was something terrible in the Druid's expression, glimmerings of fierce determination, power, and death.

I have met a few neo-chimpanzees who even seem to have the glimmerings of a true sense of humor.

Frozen in place by his horror and indecision, he watched glimmerings of light flash off the edges of the pincers as they descended, the frantic movements of the Elf's arms and legs as he struggled to break free, and the gouts of blood spurt from the severed neck.

Frozen in place by his horror and indecision, he watched glimmerings of light flash off the edges of the pincers as they descended, the frantic movements of the Elf’s arms and legs as he struggled to break free, and the gouts of blood spurt from the severed neck.

The man responded with a facial contortion that might represent a smile, and took two steps backward to a spot well shaded from the feeble glimmerings of dawn now probing down the demons' chimney.

The brightening roseate light seemed to drive back the feebly growing glimmerings of the sun.