In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret.
So they settled in good places where they could see and hear all that went on in the ring and still catch glimpses of white horses, bright colors, and the glitter of helmets beyond the dingy red curtains.
There was a slight lull in the gale at this time, and the clouds broke a little, allowing occasional glimpses of moonlight to break through and tinge the foaming crests of the waves.
I have frequently called a flock of the birds into a thicket at sunset, and caught runningglimpses of them as they hurried about, looking for the bugler who called taps.
Doing nothing pays one under such circumstances, if only by the glimpses it gives of animal life.
A moment she stands listening, looking; while just within the dark entrance you get glimpses of four pointed black noses, and a cluster of bright little eyes, wide open for a last look.
Sometimes it was by the flashes of the thunder-storm lighting up a pitchy night, and giving glimpses of her careering across Tappaan Zee, or the wide waste of Haverstraw Bay.
Occasional glimpses of this larger life are a desirable part of home education; but constant familiarity with its excitements is to be sternly deprecated in the causes of health and of mental stability.
From this child, the woman who had had no childhood, captured gleams of youth--the virgin who was for ever celibate, caught glimpses of maternity.
As she heard these things, the greying man became to her again the boy that had loved her--and as the woman leant listening, the man caughtglimpses of the girl that she had been.
Many times she had caught glimpses of the faces of those who occupied the rooms above as they watched at the windows.
That imagination which dilates the closet he writes in to the world's dimension, crowds it with agents in rank and order, as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
We are in a state between sleeping and waking, and have indistinct but glorious glimpsesof strange shapes, and there is always something to come better than what we see.
I get glimpses of the way in which great governments deal with one another, in ways that our isolated, and, therefore, safe government seldom has any experience of.
Photography has demonstrated, what had long been suspected from occasional glimpses revealed by the telescope, that this celebrated cluster of stars is intermingled with curious forms of nebulæ.
Yet there is a certain attraction in these far-away glimpses of starry swarms, for they give us some perception of the awful profundity of space.
Its pictures of storm and wreck, its glimpses of the tense and hazardous life of dwellers by the ocean, its disclosings of the mystery and the subtle lure of the sea, stir one at times like the deeper notes of poetry.
The book Glimpsesof Unfamiliar Japan, 1894, marks the beginning of his second literary period.
The first gold of it, appropriately enough, came from California, where Harte and Mrs. Jackson caught glimpses of an old Spanish civilization alive only in the picturesque ruins of its Missions.
We may catch glimpses of what the four years meant to the eager young Westerner in A Foregone Conclusion and A Fearful Responsibility, stories that center about an American consul at Venice.
Chapter two with its merry-making at the great plantation, and all its glimpses of traits and scenes peculiarly Southern, leads the reader to feel that he has in his hands at last the great romance of Southern life.
We would like to see more of him than the brief glimpses allowed us by his creator.
We feel that we are near lofty mountains; now and then we catch glimpses of a snowy peak, but only for a moment.
II Glimpses there already had been of the new humor of the West.
It is like his own landscapes, abounding in vast barrens and flats, with here and thereglimpses of glittering peaks and vast ranges, and now and then oases full of marvelous revel of color and strange birds and tropic flowers.
These are but a few glimpses at this very significant and far-reaching book, which indeed takes for its theme the very development from pagan to Christian idealism with which we are dealing.
Each of these has a character of its own, and the glimpses which we shall have of them ought to be interesting in their own right.
In her own room was a long pier-glass, where a certain young person stole brief glimpses of herself.
He told them stories of his student days in Germany, wonderful adventures by land and sea, and conjured up glimpses of the kings and queens of the Old World.
There were fine views down the valleys to the east, with blueglimpses of the Dead Sea at the end of them.
Again and again he tried to tear up from his inner consciousness something which he could remember, closing his eyes and sinking his head upon his hands, but nothing except fragments and glimpses of vision rose before him.
It seems a waste of energy to criticize disembodied spirits who do no worse than "revisit the pale glimpses of the moon.
The varying inscriptions which follow as reasons for their erection as votive offerings give us glimpses of the life in these communities clearer than those afforded by anything else.
Burt, The Attractions of Brattleboro, Glimpses of Past and Present (Brattleboro, 1866).
We rise after finishing the Reminiscences realising that we have read once more romance, in whose half-lights and modest evasions we catch fleeting glimpses of reality.
In a word, Dostoievsky is a profounder psychologist than Tolstoy; his faith was firmer; his attacks of epilepsy gave him glimpses of the underworld of the soul, terrifying visions of his subconscious self, of his subliminal personality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glimpses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
