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noun

Glimpse n.

A sudden flash; transient luster. "LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran."

A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight. "Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen."

A faint idea; an inkling.

verb

Glimpse v. t. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of. "Some glimpsing and no perfect sight."

Glimpse v. i. (past & past part. glimpsed; pres. part. glimpsing) To appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.

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Etymology of 'Glimpse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glimpse" Quotes from Famous Books

... by Apollonius is perhaps the last glimpse we have of Babylon's passing glory. Even then for centuries the walls had been a quarry from which stones were drawn for Babylon's rival, Seleucia, on the Tigris. And Strabo, the Greek geographer, who also wrote in the first century, ...

— Our Day - In the Light of Prophecy • W. A. Spicer

... contemporary English writers. His detached works have long since found a very large American audience,—larger, perhaps, than even their home-circle of readers; and the sort of biographical interest which attaches to a collection of shorter essays—giving, as it does, a glimpse at the training of the writer—will more than compensate for the want of continuity in these volumes, and for the merely local interest which belongs to many of the subjects treated. Church-rates and the English currency have not ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various

... man admitted that there was reason in this line of argument, but he was impatient, nevertheless. His daily walks now included trips to the post office. On one of those trips he caught a glimpse of Mr. Pulcifer's hemispherical countenance through its wearer's office window, and, on the spur of the moment's ...

— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

... he was helpless against Nature if she set herself to tempt him. No sooner had he put his nose outside the door than the summer air, sweet and fresh, began to play upon his face and reminded him of a certain wood. As he went through the streets of the town, a glimpse of the river, steely blue that morning in the sunshine, brought up a pool where a fat trout was sure to be lying. As he crossed the North Meadow, the wind was blowing free from the Highlands, and was laden with ...

— Young Barbarians • Ian Maclaren

... in my things somehow I struck a match and had a dazzling glimpse of my berth; then I pitched the roll of my bedding into the bunk but took no trouble to spread it out. I wasn't sleepy now, neither was I tired. And the thought that I was done with the earth for many many months to come made me feel very quiet and self-contained ...

— Chance • Joseph Conrad

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