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Example sentences for "glimpsed"

Lexicographically close words:
glimmering; glimmerings; glimmers; glimp; glimpse; glimpses; glimpsing; glint; glinted; glinting
  1. He glimpsed a white arm dangling limp; and in his breast the heart flamed at white-heat of rage and passion.

  2. Our Frances--" She paused, but her eyes sought the half-glimpsed outlines of another cottage there beyond the hedge.

  3. Then, as he glimpsed the white arm falling and knew the thing had loosed its grip, the light died.

  4. By the stabbing flare of the discharge they glimpsed the black and shining walls, a deadly circle all about them.

  5. You may guess the consternation of the priests when, through the gathering twilight, they first glimpsed that little flame which Patrick had kindled on the summit of Slane, just across the valley.

  6. The chief trader threw a backward glance across his shoulder as hand over hand he paid out the rope, and the sight he glimpsed turned icy cold the hot sweat on his limbs.

  7. Brochet glimpsed it for the first time with a prescience of impending evil.

  8. Soon he glimpsed several Indians; he took aim, fired, killed one, reloaded, and leaped upon his horse.

  9. He gained the corn-field, and had glimpsed some loose horses.

  10. He had but just glimpsed then, and he had not comprehended, that type of beautiful youth in the shadow of the past.

  11. She glimpsed at it in passing as an auxiliary advantage rather than contemplated it as worth the trouble she was taking in itself.

  12. Then she glimpsed a trim little foot thrust out the better to show a patent leather pump and a blue silk stocking.

  13. Had she not glimpsed more, in those months at Highacres, than her mother dreamed?

  14. But we never came, and Avila remains a vision of walls and roofs and towers tawny gray glimpsed in a rift of the storm that again swept toward the Spanish capital.

  15. Even as they glimpsed the ascending body, a gasp of horror went up from the little group on the raft.

  16. Even as he spoke, the leading peccary, whose gleaming tusks thrust out like keen knives from each side of his white jowl, glimpsed the little party in the shadows.

  17. In the swirl of noise and smoke and flying earth Rawbon just glimpsed the plunging fall of a man's body, and felt a curious sickly feeling at the pit of his stomach.

  18. The officer must have glimpsed the hope in Macalister's face, and, with an oath, he brought the pistol up level again.

  19. In that same instant she had glimpsed the superhuman energy that had driven him through the long years of discouragement to triumph.

  20. Through openings in the foliage we glimpsed picturesque scenery that revealed ceaseless changes and new charms with every step of our progress.

  21. For at this altitude the wave contour of the range comes out most sharply; the sky is strangely deep and darker, as if through its translucence one glimpsed the void of space.

  22. He had been convinced of this the instant he had glimpsed Beeston.

  23. Bab glimpsed a library, then a dining-room, its sideboard and serving table glittering with silver.

  24. Hand-looms could be glimpsed through open doors, and as yet the dry-goods trade is unknown to the homespun-clad denizens of the Settlement.

  25. If she came out of the door he watched, if he glimpsed her beneath a window shade, then probably she still belonged in her father's house--was still unmarried.

  26. They both stooped for it, and collided gently; but in rising the man glimpsed the string of glass beads.

  27. He had glimpsed it, this expression, outside his window the night before.

  28. Across the great room they went and down the long stairs up which that day a most complacent Hamdi Bey had escorted his just-glimpsed bride.

  29. Over his shoulder he glimpsed the young Arab hurrying out of the camp.

  30. Though she and Tom had but briefly glimpsed their Golden Summer, the remembrance of his unselfish devotion would keep it alive forever.

  31. As they neared Grace's home, both glimpsed in the same instant a taxicab standing in the street directly opposite to the house.

  32. Grace was always fairly cheerful at the start, yet the moment her gray eyes glimpsed Haven Home the old, wistful shadow crept into them.

  33. During that time Jean conducted David into all sorts of forest nooks and crannies that the latter had not even glimpsed when searching about with the men of the camp.

  34. He was about to lay her on the bare ground, for want of a better place, when he glimpsed Mose running heavily across the bridge, and went hurriedly to meet him.

  35. Then she had glimpsed something just too funny for anything in the idea of Elmer raising pigs .

  36. He was still far off when she first glimpsed him, just cresting one of the higher hills, so that for him the sun had not yet set.

  37. Roderick Norton, entering swiftly, his spurs dragging and jangling, swept the faces in the room with eyes which had in them none of that human glint of good-will which the girl at the arroyo had glimpsed in them.

  38. Through their foliage she had glimpsed the Engle home.

  39. Besides, the man standing over her looked straight and honestly into her eyes and for a little she glimpsed again the youth of him veiled by the sternness his life had set into his soul and upon his face.

  40. Somehow I've been wonderin' why we haven't glimpsed a single ship since sun-up.

  41. In the end he was greatly pleased to discover a faint light ahead--in about ten seconds he glimpsed it again and when this happened for the third time his last doubt was removed.

  42. I glimpsed a straw-hatted coachman and a pair of grays.

  43. I had a vision of them as I had glimpsed them last amidst the thickening vapors, close together, hand in hand.

  44. Neither Smoke nor any man there glimpsed what lay in Cultus George's brain, behind his attitude and prompting his attitude.

  45. In the gathering darkness, Kit glimpsed the Mane and the crooked fling of the current into it.

  46. And when he had dug the snow out of his neck and struck a match, he and Shorty glimpsed a third body, wrapped in blankets, lying beside a partially dug grave.

  47. Over the divide to the north they went, down to the spruce-trees which Smoke had glimpsed the preceding afternoon.

  48. We can all squat down in this patch of grass," suggested Madaline, who, as yet, had not even glimpsed the envelope Grace had passed on to Cleo.

  49. Grace, and, stopping in the briar path, Madaline glimpsed the imperturbable Grace, making her way through the thicket and dragging something heavy behind her!

  50. So anxious was Rose to know where Tessie was, she glimpsed through the little note without actually reading one word of it.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glimpsed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.