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 got to the fifth child, and I heard something about her, when the wind reached round the wood stack at us, and snatched the last glim.

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

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)

"I'd 'a' had th' drop on 'em in another second if they hadn't doused that glim!"

From The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X by Gooch, Thelma