Example Sentences

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The green drenched woods lay all about his path, bent thick, and the forest drooped glimmeringly.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

There stood her maidens glimmeringly grouped In the hollow bank.

From The Princess by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The night was dark and windless: the street lit glimmeringly from end to end, lamps, house windows, and the reflections in the rain-pools all contributing.

From The Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But a surmise of their drift had begun to dawn glimmeringly upon Dorothy.

From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

The night was dark and windless: the street lit glimmeringly from end to end, lamps, house-windows, and the reflections in the rain-pools all contributing.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis