What is "glimpsed"

Usage examples of "glimpsed".

I stepped to where I could see around the bend in our narrow lane, and glimpsed the horseman.

Music wafted through the air and I glimpsed dancers, but I moved slowly through standing folk conversing with one another.

In no future that I had glimpsed had I seen you, yet when I recalled all I knew of the prophecies of my kind, I discovered you, again and again.

All that I had glimpsed in a moment, like a brief glance through some otherworldly window.

I found inns I had frequented and stores where I had traded, and even glimpsed the faces of old acquaintances overlaid with fifteen years of experience.

Through a door I glimpsed an immense bed, fat with pillows and feather bed, and so heavily draped that even in Buck's coldest winter, no draft would find the occupant.

What vices had he inadvertently witnessed, what painful shortcomings had he glimpsed, and how did he meet the eyes of those folk every day in the broad and well-lit chambers of the keep?

Rain masked the other buildings of the hamlet, but I thought I glimpsed a small livery stable, and a scatter of homes beyond it.

Jewels glittered on sword belts, and I glimpsed axe-hafts banded with gold.

As she spun lightly about in a whirl of embroidered skirts, I glimpsed her face for an instant.

I recalled the leaping narwhal I had seen embroidered on the Narcheska’s clothing the first time I had glimpsed her.

I’d avoided seeing her since the night she had glimpsed Laurel in my arms.

Save for my brief glimpse of it on the night Kettricken and I fled the castle and Regal, I’ve never glimpsed it.

Up close, his visage was even more remarkable than what I had glimpsed earlier.

The scope of the Skill that I had glimpsed from these forgotten scrolls was vaster than anything Verity had ever dared imagine.