The rivulet, late unseen, Where bickering through the shrubs its waters run, Shines with the image of its golden screen, And glimmerings of the sun.
Then came glimmerings of hope--precious promises saving him from despair--followed by the shadow of death overspreading his soul, and involving him in midnight darkness.
During this period of his childhood, while striving to harden his heart against God, many were the glimmerings of light which from time to time directed his unwilling eyes to a dread eternity.
During these sad years he was not wholly sunk in despair, but had at times some glimmerings of mercy.
Thus passed the minutes until Antoine saw the first glimmerings of morning peeping out of the darkness, that came above the mountain-tops that lay in the vicinity of Eboli.
The rivulet, late unseen, Where bickering through the shrubs its waters run, Shines with the image of its golden screen And glimmerings of the sun.
The first glimmerings only beget a noble discontent.
Then suddenly, not a hundred yards from us, gushed out a flood of soft radiance, opalescent, filled with pearly glimmerings and rosy shadows of light.
Such glimmerings may however be picked out of these warlike rhapsodies, as denote that he is of a noble and independent tone of thinking.
In the worst state of Indian society, there are always some glimmerings of truth.
He had not the slightest glimmerings of what literature meant.
And suddenly the boy felt miserable, oppressed by these dim glimmerings of lives misplaced.
I have found, subsequently, that glimmerings of the former being existed in his character; but they showed themselves only at long intervals, and under very peculiar circumstances.
I can seeglimmerings of this spirit in Peter, and this at a moment when he is almost ready to admit that he's a descendant of Israel.
The blue horizons, the great white clouds sailing, the purple heathland, the lush valleys with their glimmerings of water!
And sometimes we get glimmerings of the ‘how,’ if we do not know the ‘why.
Faint glimmerings of light have alternately appeared and disappeared.
By patient thought, and sustained attention, these faint glimmerings have, in more instances than one, been made to open out into what has appeared to be the clear and steady light of truth.
Bargeton's intellect was of the limited kind, exactly poised on the border line between harmless vacancy, with some glimmerings of sense, and the excessive stupidity that can neither take in nor give out any idea.
It is really delightful, Mary, as 'Sarah Soothings' would say, to meet with these glimmerings of taste in this wilderness of the world.
But Mr. Mordaunt Littlepage appears to have some near glimmerings of the principles which lay at the root of the American revolution, though the principle itself does not appear to have been openly recognized anywhere at the time.
Here hope seemed to afford me some glimmerings of success, as I was well treated in the house, and taken particular notice of by my master, who was very rich, and had an only daughter, who was young and beautiful.
The faint glimmerings of the pale-faced moon on the troubled billows of the ocean are not so fleeting and inconstant as the fortune and condition of human life.
I see the glimmerings of dawn in the eastern heaven.
Suddenly a door opened at one end of the room, through which Mr. World walked into a large cavern which was illuminated only by faintglimmerings of light.
Only see to it carefully that your glasses are properly adjusted, lest some strange glimmerings of light should bring pain or ruin to your eyes.
These glimmerings too, had aided her in better understanding her own heart, and all her sentiments revolted at the thought of having a witness to any explanation that might relate to the subject.
The brother looked, for an instant, at the flushed features of the speaker, as if glimmerings of some faintly distinguished scenes crossed the visions of his mind; but the animal still predominated, and he continued to feed his hunger.
It was only when the people lifted up their voices in the song of praise, that some glimmerings of his ancient recollections were discoverable in his inactive countenance.
But now his mind was beginning to attempt to function with a little more rationality, and along with that came the glimmerings of an idea.
The sun-up had a freshness that reminded Vance of the previous morning, the first glimmerings of daybreak.
Amidst the shadows which are increasingly gathering about us we can faintly discern the glimmerings of Bahá’u’lláh’s unearthly sovereignty appearing fitfully on the horizon of history.
The first candle is unity in the political realm, the early glimmerings of which can now be discerned.
But at the same time the Hen, that has all this seeming Ingenuity, (which is indeed absolutely necessary for the Propagation of the Species) considered in other respects, is without the least Glimmerings of Thought or common Sense.
He had some glimmerings of mercy, some conviction of a probability of mercy, or that he might obtain mercy for his pardon, if he went, and with unfeigned lips did confess his sins to God.
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