"Glim" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... place. But when he turned round, I crept away, and made the signal, and they let down the sheet, and then, as they were hauling me up, I heard voices—I suppose they must have been yours and Kenrick's; but they thought it was some master, and doused the glim, and oh! so nearly let me fall; so, Walter, please don't despise me, or be angry with me because you found me crying and shivering in bed. The cold made me shiver, and I couldn't ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar
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— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey
... "On'y a glim," said the stoker in a satisfied tone, "but it showed me as I've made my money. An' made ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various
... regained the outward apartment, and seated themselves, Jeanie heard the highwayman say, to her no small relief, "She's as fast as if she were in Bedfordshire.—Now, old Meg, d—n me if I can understand a glim of this story of yours, or what good it will do you to hang the one wench and torment the other; but, rat me, I will be true to my friend, and serve ye the way ye like it. I see it will be a bad job; but I do think I could get her down to Surfleet on the Wash, and so on board Tom Moonshine's ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... 'Let's have a glim,' said Sikes, 'or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog. Look after your ...
— Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens
... be great rogues. I suspect he would have dowsed his glim in no little hurry if one of his officers had hove ...
— Fred Markham in Russia - The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar • W. H. G. Kingston
... sapere. Heere my harte laggared on the hope of your Majesties judgement, quhom God hath indeued with light in a sorte supernatural, if the way might be found to draue your eie, set on high materes of state, to take a glim of a thing of so mean contemplation, and yet necessarie. Quhiles I stack in this claye, it pleased God to bring your Majestie hame to visit your aun Ida. Quher I hard that your Grace, in the disputes of al purposes quherwith, after the exemple of the wyse in former ages, you use to ...
— Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue - A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles • Alexander Hume
... how to do was to raise chickens. He figured that if he could get a little place off where land was cheap, and get the hang of it well in his head before his glim was doused altogether, he might worry along. He couldn't bear to think of goin' back to his old home, or hangin' around among strangers until he had to be herded into one of them big brick barracks. He wanted to be alone ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... of night there were lights moving upon the shore, probably occasioned by the unloading a smuggling lugger from the Isle of Man which was lying in the bay. On the light from the sashed door of the house being observed, a halloo from the vessel of 'Ware hawk! Douse the glim!' alarmed those who were on shore, ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott |
