glim

Example Sentences

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Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim.

From Time Magazine Archive

The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim.

From Time Magazine Archive

We goes up to the second floor and turns on the glim in the front office.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell

“Sure enough, they left their glim here,” said the fellow from the window.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)