glims

There are no more "glims" to smash; the old oil _reverbères_ have been replaced by showy gas-lamps, and the _sergents de ville_ would make short work of any roisterers who attempted to take liberties with them.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

But if he has but the cheapest of transient glims, good and bright enough for its narrow purpose, is it any wonder it burns foul, seeing what business usually it gets to illuminate in these exciting and hurried times.

Old Junk 1915

It was welling higher to douse our feeble glims and to founder London, built of shadows on its boundary.

London River 1915

"If it's a game of hide-and-seek ye want, I can soon accommodate you, seeing as how you've been so kind as to leave me a couple of glims, though it's only one of them I'll need."

The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines Kirk Munroe 1890

I'd hit him right atwixt his candles, and doused his glims for him, in a hurry.

Chains and Freedom: Or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross 1839

The film never claimed to be a documentry da hello, nor are any movies about war 100% accurate, there are only glims of things that are true and movie added pazazz.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

There are not many ways to "hack" into apps that are not open source and SIMBL does a GREAT job IMO at doing just that ... tricking out finder with totalfinder, making safari better w/glims, the list goes on and on.

MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010

FOTODIVR tried glims - as you call it - and it was too indiscriminate as to what it filtered.

MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2009

It was really reckoned fashionable in 1828 to make a visit to Paris the occasion for the coarsest of "sprees," -- to get tipsy at Véry's, -- to "smash the glims," -- to parade those infamous _Galeries de Bois_ in the Palais Royal which were the common haunt of abandoned women, -- to beat the gendarmes, and, indeed, the first Frenchman who happened to turn up, merely on the ground that he _was_ a Frenchman.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

"and knew we'd be nosing around in caves and tunnels before we got back to God's country, so we brought our glims along with us."

Boy Scouts in Mexico; or on Guard with Uncle Sam 1909