Example Sentences

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As long as hope is glimmering far away, you can continue facing the future no matter how hard it gets.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2020

"But to yonder pavilion; and, since you must needs know," replied Nectabanus, "the moon is glimmering on the gilded ball which crowns its roof, and which is worth a king's ransom."

From The Talisman by Scott, Walter, Sir

My fertile brain is simmering, My fancy's fire is glimmering; I'd fain betake Me to the lake, When bright the moonlight's shimmering.

From The Merryweathers by Richards, Julia Ward

For the dawn is glimmering gray, And hark! in the crackling brushwood There are feet that tread this way.

From Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 by Anonymous

But now the room is disenchanted—and feebly our lamp is glimmering, about to leave us to the light of the moon and stars.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John