Glimmer

(v. i.) To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.

(n.) A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.

(n.) Mica. See Mica.

约翰娜编辑

• There was a glimmer of nightly rabbits across the ground. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There are the lights of my house, he murmured, pointing to a glimmer among the trees. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The servants had not expected them so early, and there was only a glimmer of gas on the upper landing. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Our gas was lit and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for the table had not been cleared yet. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• You can imagine my surprise when, as I looked down this corridor, I saw a glimmer of light coming from the open door of the library. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• You see it shining over her head in the glimmer of the lamp, and--and the lamp goes out, with a groan, and all is dark. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• One light glimmered in the depth. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A quite perceptible smile glimmered on Mrs. Bird's face, as she answered, We'll see. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• At first they were faintly discernible in the mist, and above them the later stars still glimmered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The air become more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue--the death of night, rather than the birth of day--glimmered faintly in the sky. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Dim dawn glimmered in the yard. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Evadne did not answer; her large dark eyes were cast down, at length a tear glimmered on the lashes. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual light. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Her soul was new, undefined and glimmering with the unseen. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• As he came out into the glimmering patch of light, we saw that he carried something white under his arm. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• They rushed into the kitchen, whither the truants had repaired, and at once obtained rather more than a glimmering of the real state of the case. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mother, I have been an undutiful trouble to you, and I have my reward; but of late years I have had a kind of glimmering of a purpose in me too. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He pointed to a light, glimmering below us; and, at the same moment, I heard through the stillness of the evening the bubbling of a stream. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He stood before her, glimmering, so awfully real, that her heart almost stopped beating. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In creative moments men always draw upon some secret spring of certainty, some fundamental well into which no disturbing glimmers penetrate. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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