glim

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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

Rollin' home, rollin' home, Rollin' home across the foam, She had to swim to save her glim And catch us rollin' home.'

From The Magic Pudding by Lindsay, Norman

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)

Now, here, you see, is my little glim; it ain’t for me, because I’m blind, worse luck! and the day and night is the blessed same to David Pew.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis