Example Sentences

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In old days it had glimmered for distant mariners, who pointed to it as the Dardanelles light.

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Raymond, Ernest

It was not that she had lost her lover—it was not that the romance of youth had glimmered and disappeared from before her eyes.

From The Doctor's Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

The sweet new beacon of his life, which had glimmered for a short while within his heart, was extinguished once more, and lost in eternal gloom.

From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

The cherubim drooped and the pomegranates lay In the dust with the lamps that had glimmered all day; The censers, and altars, the ashes must claim, Though their unalloyed gold be the gold of Parvaim.

From Indian Legends and Other Poems by Horsford, Mary Gardiner

The vital spark, which had glimmered faintly in the socket, received fresh fuel from the oil of gladness which the little lawyer poured into his soul.

From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American by Hawthorne, Julian