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Examples
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Runners are carrying the flame past the glimpsy (ph) Las Vegas casinos as well as old colonial buildings and so far, there have been no protests reported.
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Dark towers, and old half-lit stone-work; winding, built in, glimpsy passages; the sudden spacious half-lighted gloom of a chanced-on quadrangle; chiming of clocks, and the feeling of a dark and old and empty town that was yet brimming with hidden modern life and light, kept them almost speechless; and, since they had never known their way, they were at once lost.
Over the River 2004
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Her thighs, too, they used to look so quick and glimpsy in their female roundness, somehow they too were going flat, slack, meaningless.
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“So,” said Len, “do we look for glimpsy fireflies or go straight to the Welken wagon?”
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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“So,” said Len, “do we look for glimpsy fireflies or go straight to the Welken wagon?”
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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“So,” said Len, “do we look for glimpsy fireflies or go straight to the Welken wagon?”
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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Its visibility is only possible where the public can have a glimpsy of it - at Companies House.
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Its visibility is only possible where the public can have a glimpsy of it - at Companies House.
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