glim

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Duke: And then Petey will douse his glim.

From Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates by Flory, Julia McCune

But douse the glim there; we shan’t want it, and it might give the alarm.”

From Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

Mind him who will, with his great white face, Boldly I'll ride by his glim to the chase; Give him a Rowland, and loudly as ever Shout, as I show myself, "Stand and deliver!"

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison