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Example sentences for "momentary glimpse"

  • We, therefore, now headed the boats straight in for the beach, catching a momentary glimpse as we did so of the other division, apparently doing the same thing.

  • As Dick looked in the direction toward which his companion pointed, he caught a momentary glimpse of a sudden faint irradiation in the sky, followed by the appearance of a minute cluster of tiny falling stars.

  • The deer had stood perfectly rigid for perhaps half a minute, during which Earle had also suspended all movement, under the impression that the quarry had caught a momentary glimpse of something suspicious behind the screening bush.

  • Or was it a momentary glimpse of a pale face in a moonlit room far away, which took the spirit out of him and made his arm drop at his side?

  • Just a momentary glimpse of a boy's pale face somewhere in the dim gloom of that little room, and then all was as before.

  • But a turn of the umbrella gives him a momentary glimpse of them, and in that glimpse poor hapless Jeffreys recognises Raby and Scarfe!

  • Yes," I answered, as I caught a momentary glimpse of an upright figure that seemed to give a single wave with its arm and then collapse into the bottom of the boat.

  • It looked half inclined to break away two or three times during the morning; but as mid-day approached it became as bad as ever; and I had the vexation of seeing noon pass by without so much as a momentary glimpse of the sun.

  • I looked in that direction, and caught a momentary glimpse of some distant object whirling in the air, and immediately afterwards the sound was repeated.

  • Once Appleby had a momentary glimpse of the schooner, a blur of slanted canvas against a patch of hazy sky, but she faded next moment and was not seen again.

  • He, however, knew the schooner had run to leeward of the boat, and now when she lay to, he had a momentary glimpse of the Russians.

  • She hove her nose up for an instant, and Appleby had a momentary glimpse of a jib that had burst its sheet thrashing itself to pieces above the bowsprit.

  • It looked half inclined to break away two or three times during the morning; but as mid-day approached it became as bad as ever, and I had the vexation of seeing noon pass by without so much as a momentary glimpse of the sun.

  • A momentary glimpse of a face in a dark winter night, was that enough to build such an accusation upon?

  • And it was a momentary glimpse that I could not trust to.

  • During the skirmish I had caught a momentary glimpse of her at about a cable's length on our port beam through the glancing of the pistol-flashes on her spars and rigging, but now she was nowhere to be seen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    borne along; clear idea; colonial expansion; day and ceased saying her permitted; derry down; desperate struggle; edition page; foreign born; four eyes; generous heart; give attention; hasty meal; little sweetheart; momentary glimpse; momentary pause; other provisions; reads thus; settled right; something extraordinary; usually happens; waited till; what degree; white patch