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Example sentences for "glim"

Lexicographically close words:
gliders; glides; glideth; gliding; gliff; glimmer; glimmered; glimmering; glimmerings; glimmers
  1. The chief point of merit in the story is the excellent and taking dialogue between Glim Peters, his chum and the detectives.

  2. Sure enough, they left their glim here," said the fellow from the window.

  3. There, you infarnal beast, you've yawed sharp up into this ere bush, and put my starboard glim out forever!

  4. Lucky I would not work till the glim was out.

  5. Now they had been some hours watching the house and that light had been there all the time, therefore, argued mephistopheles, "It is not a farthing glim in a bedroom or we should have seen it lighted.

  6. I'll stand by the crate here, and keep our little glim working, so you'll get your bearings when you start back.

  7. Bobolink as he found himself looking into what seemed to be a very deep and black hole; "wasn't it lucky we got the glim going when we did?

  8. When ashore, though, he was said to go mad, and to roll trampling and trumpeting through the squalid littoral of the world; being brought aboard afterwards an enormity of lax bones and flesh, with the cogitating glim in his bulk quite doused.

  9. I turned up the dull and stinking oil lamp, and tried to read; but that fuliginous glim haunted the pages.

  10. Rokeby looked at her with an astonished respect and a glim of his saving humour.

  11. By the glim of the nightlight, when he went into their room he saw her sleeping.

  12. Douse that glim for a minnit, while I opens the 'atch.

  13. The fellow took two or three turns up and down the deck, gave another glance shorewards and then whispered to his companion to "douse the glim again.

  14. A blowing sound, and the glim of the candle which was fingering the dusk above, went out; silence reigned.

  15. He had seen the clerks dowsing the glim of their grins; and that young pup Bob Pillin screwing up his supercilious mug over his dog-collar.

  16. II A purser's glim lit the cabin, bare save for a solitary print upon the bulk-head.

  17. The Gunner was squatting in a powder barrel, a lighted purser's glim between his teeth, and a pistol in one hand.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glim" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    fire; flame; glim; illuminant; lamp; lantern; light; luminary; match; moon; star; sun; taper; torch