I might have been twice as weary, yet I would not have left the deck, all was so new and interesting to me--the brief commands, the shrill note of the whistle, the men bustling to their places in the glimmer of the ship's lanterns.
" Donnie looked up with love in his eyes and just a glimmer of a smile － the first I'd see on his face that year.
For most of us, Hawaii begins to weave her spell with some little glimmer of awareness.
Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh!
This went on all day, and even at night, when I threw myself down half dead with weariness, the terrible old man held on tight to my neck, nor did he fail to greet the first glimmer of morning light by drumming upon me with his heels, until I perforce awoke and resumed my dreary march with rage and bitterness in my heart.
I followed it for what seemed to me many miles, and at last saw before me a glimmer of light which grew clearer every moment until I emerged upon the sea shore with a joy which I cannot describe.
" In other words, at the heart of every joy is a glimmer of sadness waiting to shine through.
After he had spent some hours in the darkness, not without fearand trembling, he saw at a very short distance the glimmer of alight, and as he thought that a human habitation might be there,where he would be better off than on the branches of a tree, hegot carefully down and went towards the light.
The church bells were silent; the last tone floated away with the last red glimmer on the evening clouds.
" The long wicks of the altar lights glimmer red; but there is a redder gleam upon the pavement, where the bishop lies with cloven skull, and his dead warriors around him, in the quiet of the holy Christmas night.
Only a faint glimmer of light struggled through the horn panes in the little window on the roof, while within sat the old clerk, generally on his bed, singing his evening hymn in a low voice; or he would be moving about in his booth till late in the night, busily employed in many things.
He wings his way in the glimmer of the Northern Lights over the plains of Lapland, and hops among the yellow flowers in the short Greenland summer.
