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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
glimmer .
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Examples
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A light glimmered from a tent on the Indian reservation.
Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton 1916
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By the time he reached that part of the park from whence the house was visible at a distance, it was quite dark, and, had he not almost instinctively known his way, he could not have discerned it – for no light glimmered from the Gothic windows of the Hall, not even in that part of the house inhabited by the servants; and Orlando imagined that most of them, fatigued the night before, were gone earlier than usual to bed.
The Old Manor House 1793
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The falling rider clutched Nigel's arm and tore him from the saddle, so that the two rolled upon the grass under the stamping hoofs, the English squire on the top, and his shortened sword glimmered before the visor of the gasping, breathless Frenchman.
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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The falling rider clutched Nigel's arm and tore him from the saddle, so that the two rolled upon the grass under the stamping hoofs, the English squire on the top, and his shortened sword glimmered before the visor of the gasping, breathless Frenchman.
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Gruffydd’s sword glimmered violet in the dying light as he reached into his pouch for the last potion.
Arowin's Return Bob Lock 2008
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Gruffydd’s sword glimmered violet in the dying light as he reached into his pouch for the last potion.
Archive 2008-02-01 Bob Lock 2008
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By now, Eleno and Manuel were bringing us other pieces, which, when turned in the sunshine, glimmered with a golden or silver sheen.
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At the point of the wedge, a small cursor glimmered, indicating their current position.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Sixty years after the mine collapse, the units glimmered with a sentient robot ferocity nearly a mile below the oblivious world above.
365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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A full moon rose, transforming a jet contrail into a comet, and the river glimmered through the trees.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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