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    glimpse


    glimpsed


    glimpses


    glimpsing


    1. He looks out the window, catches a glimpse of an unsmiling policeman with a machine gun cradled in his arms


    2. Tom managed to catch a glimpse of her leaving the car park


    3. I even caught a glimpse through my tears of one of our guards wiping a speck of dust from his cheek


    4. This gives your followers more to see, more to enjoy and a longer glimpse of wheat's to come in the future


    5. glimpse of the visitors


    6. Both girls had been on beasts leaving early in the stampede and were probably ahead of him, though he hadn't caught a glimpse of either in the darkness since their thongas bolted with them


    7. they might catch a glimpse of the truth


    8. I did finally get a glimpse of the female just now when I probed her


    9. Several times he caught a brief glimpse of the White in his peripheral vision


    10. glimpse into who you are as a person and what you are passionate about

    11. they caught a glimpse through the hedges, there was nothing to see


    12. and caught their first glimpse of the sea between the trees


    13. glimpse of what he was hitting


    14. glimpse of the cord around the sailor’s neck


    15. Some of them peer into the ambulance with bald, video trained curiosity, while others try to get a glimpse of the bodies


    16. As doors swing to and fro with the constant movement of nurses and support staff, interested bystanders try to catch a glimpse of the drama, eager to compare the reality of television medical scenes with the fiction all around them


    17. He catches a glimpse of someone peering in through the bay window


    18. he could occasionally catch a glimpse of the farm-land beyond


    19. I didn’t know it at the time but that Saturday would show a glimpse of


    20. It is that glimpse that I want to peek into now

    21. Titania and Hipolyta were hidden by the clot of bodies blocking their escape route, but a moment of jostling gave Jameson an instant's glimpse of two small figures nearly with their backs to wall at the far end


    22. The depths of his own experience and resources were his own second nature, and would have given any casual passerby only the glimpse of an official telegrapher at his routine chores


    23. Occasionally he would catch a glimpse of the mountains to the northwest


    24. Emma had so hoped they would be able to catch their first glimpse of the valley the way she had, from the top of the hill


    25. Whirling about, she caught a faint glimpse of a couple struggling just outside the light


    26. How he could see behind their faces 'and glimpse the love and majesty of God


    27. Into the lives of some of our species, there is brought a bare glimpse of the truth of love


    28. a glimpse of the smug, smiling face of Dean Grossin


    29. Over her shoulders she caught a glimpse of Jim, smiling down at her from his lofty perch at the top of the steps


    30. He had the good fortune to run into Sheizenn at that tiny roof-plaz on the Thulingain where you can catch a glimpse of the southern horizon

    31. As he did so I caught a glimpse of his face in the mirror


    32. Now there was only the tiniest glimpse of sky from the courtyard in front of it


    33. the ground he caught a quick glimpse of an ugly face with


    34. He had felt the man's presence when entering the inner city and had even managed to catch a glimpse of his thin face with eyes of gray and white watching them from within the crowd


    35. He had a short glimpse of


    36. Through Plato, we catch a glimpse of Christianity


    37. Is feeling anxiety with time caused or released By the full narrative glimpse?


    38. Herold knew her “red letter” could not be that living whole: Yet it was a fragmentary glimpse of the spark of life itself


    39. toes again, trying to catch a glimpse, moping about the growing


    40. Babylonian women dressed somewhat more liberally; how else could men see and appreciate their beauty? Men liked to see some cleavage and a glimpse of bare shoulders and calves

    41. It again was a glimpse of that nigh otherworldly wisdom, that intuitive knowledge of him that she seemed to have from their first meeting


    42. Craning back to see, she caught a glimpse of the thing


    43. As they passed the fire pit, Nerissa caught a glimpse of the hermit’s neatly piled sleeping


    44. He let his eyes quickly rove over the crowd to see if he could perhaps get a glimpse of him or even his stallion somewhere down there


    45. Letting some seconds pass, he too left the Bee and Barb to take a final glimpse of the man


    46. This was already the third night in a row that she’d been waiting there to get a glimpse of him in all his glory


    47. Like the womenfolk, the men also loved to get a glimpse of the queen – for different reasons


    48. But he very soon was delayed again, when he happened to catch a glimpse of a certain shifty Argonian meandering near the marketplace


    49. That was only taken as a glimpse, what filled her eyes to the point of weeping was the sight from the terrace: the living heart of Sheranara, Beloved and Betrothed of the Enthilesté


    50. But before disappearing the figure paused to throw a glance over the narrow shoulder, and Brynjolf caught a brief glimpse of an unfamiliar Dunmer man with very dark hair and red eyes that glowed with insistence














































    1. Under the bare, low-wattage bulb hanging from the ceiling in the outer corridor, I had glimpsed a narrow passage running away from me as I knelt at the foot of the ladder


    2. I glimpsed a simulacrum of moon and sun briefly through a brown lattice fog when the cell door opened


    3. As he flew across the breaching ship’s bow, through the dome he thought he glimpsed Chief Horcheese’s head and torso strapped in the command chair with a thousand cables trailing out of her, like a spider that had become its web


    4. glimpsed some of the pages, which seemed to contain assorted notes,


    5. He strongly suspected that the portal archway he had glimpsed


    6. sensible shoes could just be glimpsed


    7. Whatever he glimpsed was more the size and shape of a human than any predatory animal he knew of


    8. When he at last glimpsed the town’s


    9. Both seemed sound of mind, though incredibly frightened – and rightly so, in the minds of their companions he had glimpsed the monstrosity that sent them running


    10. As soon as he glimpsed his stall, his own thoughts drifted here and there, ghostly echoes of past conversations rising and falling

    11. She stared at his nudity and felt the old wild passion spread over her as it always did when she first glimpsed a young boy’s nakedness


    12. She had seemed like such a “nice,” pretty woman when he had first glimpsed her on the porch


    13. As we walked down the passageway, I glimpsed ahead to the room where one bathed


    14. When Sespian set the report aside, he glimpsed the sketches he had made a few weeks earlier for a new art wing at the university


    15. Once she glimpsed movement below, but when she turned her head, she saw nothing


    16. But then Brock glimpsed an image of Soffen, and so strong was the image that it jolted him from his hopelessness


    17. The house, half glimpsed between the hedges, revealed itself to me as I passed between them


    18. I glimpsed the man at the helm, spinning


    19. She had only glimpsed the youth’s dad for a short time in a soupy morning light, but the two were undoubtedly father and son


    20. His sidelong glance made her feel as if he had seen her one more time, this time though, it was her emotional nakedness that had been glimpsed

    21. The sun had not yet come up, but the first light could be glimpsed in the horizon


    22. Her intention in the moment had been to swallow, but at the last second, she glimpsed in his mind that he wanted to see his seed on her breasts


    23. Once in a while, many miles apart, I glimpsed a tin-roofed farmhouse standing alone in the empty land


    24. I glimpsed at my attacker uneasily at first, but as we looked at each other, I felt a tug of familiarity, as if I had seen, gazed into his eyes before


    25. Anannya's temporary joy departed in jiffy when she glimpsed Panchali scratching the notice board once more


    26. What do you want? she asked, but holding back the power of her mind so it did not destroy whatever she might have glimpsed


    27. For a heartbeat, it was impossible to understand and then he knew, as clearly as if the Gathandrian Spirit had spoken directly to his heart, that this was what Jemelda had planned and this was what she was hurrying to do when he glimpsed her


    28. The quickly glimpsed outlines of a city slowly disappeared into the


    29. Simon could see the shift in his thought-colours and the gathering darkness of shared memory, a more physical entity than whatever he had glimpsed before


    30. When he glimpsed the whiteness, his mind too echoed with the same emptiness, bringing him at once to a place in himself he had not realised existed

    31. Beyond them, the scribe glimpsed a figure in shadow, a flash of silver at his side


    32. An impression of the people he’d glimpsed in the desert


    33. For several seconds he glimpsed something deep within the Primagnon’s mind


    34. Through cracks in the flapping tarpaulin I glimpsed the town of Soltau


    35. actually look at what was happening on screen until, by chance, I glimpsed the horrifying


    36. But as he did so, he glimpsed a pair of bright amber eyes staring at him from the side of the trailer


    37. Two years ago, I'd glimpsed it briefly from a train


    38. images I glimpsed the first time we saw her with this voice,


    39. she first glimpsed him


    40. Secret courtyards can be glimpsed through tiny grills

    41. have glimpsed it at the last moment and tried to duck his mid section


    42. This almost inhuman, glorious version of her mother was a much, much larger scale of the person that Dana’d always glimpsed when her mother was the Angel


    43. His dark shirt soaked up the rainwater and after brushing his wet hair back he glimpsed a motorcade outside one of the oldest and most respected hotels in the old city center


    44. She could dimly see that Conan still sat on the boulder; she glimpsed the long blue glimmer of his blade


    45. I have heard tales of giant towers and walls glimpsed afar off by sailors who dared go part-way up the river


    46. Already the mist was thinning; close to the bars she saw a pair of sandalled feet, the toes turned upward—she glimpsed the indistinct outlines of seven still, prostrate shapes


    47. Behind them, beyond the slopes they had traversed, torches were tossing on the walls of the fortress, and he glimpsed a flare of light that meant the great gate had been opened


    48. They moved in soft thick darkness, in which she sometimes glimpsed vaguely gigantic walls sweeping up like black ramparts, or great crags shouldering the stars; at times she sensed echoing depths beneath them, or felt the wind of dizzy heights blowing cold about her


    49. For answer he pointed to the northwest, where she glimpsed a peak in a notch of the crags


    50. The wayfarer glimpsed its flight as he sprang frantically to cover














































    1. around her head, revealing glimpses of stone cold wall and hard, puddled


    2. The brief glimpses of my new home in this subterranean world that I had stored away as I watched and listened through the sacking started to coalesce and form a broader landscape


    3. She felt the magic in the air begin to waver around her head, revealing glimpses of stone cold wall and hard, puddled tarmacadamed floor amongst the grasses and the starry sky


    4. I crossed the road to the Flea Market in Avissinias square and wandered around, snatching occasional glimpses of the awesome floodlit Acropolis at the end of narrow interlocking streets but it was too early to visit


    5. He catches glimpses of the women he loves


    6. It was something about the Caribbean breeze that seemed to follow her everywhere and press her robes against glimpses of her body


    7. He saw it in Yhohonshu’s mind as glimpses of delta-warehouses per big-bead


    8. brief glimpses of frowns and smiles, joy, and sorrow


    9. The glimpses of the warrior that lived somewhere in Roman’s soul


    10. Now there were finally some glimpses of daylight down the streets that ran off of this khume

    11. She continued dancing and when she moved, Zarko caught glimpses of her secret place through the thin leather thongs suspended from a leather belt around her hips


    12. Although most of us would not recall our past lives, some people actually have had glimpses of such times


    13. He had seen glimpses of that future through the Arch, and it was heartbreaking to think that it might come true


    14. That other world; or those other dimensions within the Arch; were reflections of Kismeria, glimpses of a world without the substance of the real world


    15. where nothing could be seen of the great church but glimpses of the


    16. shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not


    17. harbor as I caught glimpses of the waterfront


    18. From a few glimpses through the bush, she could see that they paralleled the bank of a wide muddy river


    19. “What fair skin she has, even through the mud,” he mumbled aloud softly, smiling at the glimpses he’d had as he plodded along


    20. She could not see more of it, only the shining moon’s reflections in white wall as small glimpses between the trees

    21. As he struggled to get back on his feet, his eyes caught the jarred glimpses of pure panic: mothers screaming and dragging their children alongside with them, men craning their necks to find the next trail or engine exhaust in the night sky


    22. They met no patrol boats, although they did pass scattered clusters of fishing boats and caught glimpses of the occasional freighter on the horizon


    23. She only saw Elior's grin in glimpses next to her


    24. Little glimpses from her life, names, places, and words


    25. Even though Hunter could at times get glimpses into Cara’s thoughts, he remained unable to read the mind of anyone else in the present


    26. find out her dreams were also glimpses of the future


    27. In the Bible there are several glimpses of a rather dry, ironic, humour


    28. Akua had fed me well; I was beginning to catch glimpses, even if they were too small to feel, of my original healthy, undead state


    29. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see glimpses of his face


    30. As she stretched up, the hem rose higher at the back to expose alluring glimpses of underwear

    31. When she moved, the gauze strips moved in the breeze, revealing tantalizing glimpses of her nakedness beneath


    32. Beneath it Ralph glimpses all the ways those beneath the Tregannons have kept their secrets over the generation-cycles


    33. Within the black lay glimpses of silver and he knew then what he saw—Gelahn’s knowledge of the cane


    34. Around them, and hovering in their arms, slide glimpses of words and meaning, shifting and repatterning themselves constantly with every movement


    35. After a while, although he could not tell the extent of it by a story’s length, Simon became aware the glimpses of the villagers, and indeed the village itself, were fading around him


    36. Above him he glimpses a cloud of whiteness floating over the ruined houses and it takes him a heartbeat or so to understand it is Simon’s snow-raven


    37. I’ve been seeing flashes of light and glimpses of grays


    38. Over the shields, Venn saw glimpses of strangers' bearded faces glaring with hate


    39. completely, beyond the glimpses he would get when he would


    40. Siddhartha Gautama spoke about literally developing awareness in terms of fractions of a second, to awaken people to the fleeting glimpses of an open, precognitive spaciousness that keeps occurring before things get interpreted in a particular perspective

    41. That which the mystic glimpses is not just his or her unconscious, but the unconsciousness of God, an unconscious at its deepest level shared by every animate being, he says


    42. He heard footsteps and, by scooting over and arranging his head in such a way, Calvin caught glimpses of familiar faces marching with hands on their heads between forceful Rotham guards who—despite their height disadvantage—looked vicious and domineering


    43. 15 leadbeater, Charles W , Some Glimpses of Occultism, Madras (India), The Theosophical


    44. tantalizing glimpses of the challenges and


    45. connection really began to fade more and more after that until I had only fleeting glimpses of your presence


    46. I have had glimpses of it


    47. really began to fade more and more after that until I had only fleeting glimpses of your


    48. In between the planks and between the trestles one could catch terrifying glimpses of the raging torrent tens of feet below


    49. I caught glimpses of lockers along the wall


    50. The sand at the bottom of the ship was thin and hard to walk through; what little light was left in the oil lamps showed glimpses of the boy's face, and it was not a pretty sight










































    1. Crawling on his belly from one building to the next, he tried not to look down but often he found himself glimpsing at the streets below, watching the shadows scatter as yet another ball of flame ignited the sky


    2. While he awaited his refreshment he turned to look about the inn, glimpsing the still gawking patrons


    3. Amonas spoke then, his voice sounding somewhat distant, as if his mind was removed elsewhere and he was merely glimpsing what surrounded him:


    4. few miles from the chapel, glimpsing the barren plains and


    5. This was my first impression upon glimpsing the Administrator at the Temple of the People


    6. Now they turned onto the wide King’s Way, with the many steles that commemorated the greatness of Pharaoh, nestled among all the different kinds of now denuded trees that Moshe remembered only glimpsing before


    7. She couldn’t bear to be so near her husband, no matter his betrayal of her cause, without at least glimpsing him again


    8. remembered only glimpsing before


    9. For a while she stayed there, touching the small leaf and glimpsing all the memory of the land’s power


    10. She was whisked to the top floor of the hotel, just glimpsing something of the wonderful gilded foyer and gigantic arrangements of flowers everywhere

    11. and 40 will be glimpsing the truth of this, and those under 30 probably still think they are immortal


    12. There were not precisely sweet days those that I was glimpsing in the horizon


    13. Felix noticed Xavier glimpsing over at him out of the corner of his eye


    14. A silent scream bounced around the cavernous interior of his mind as his eyes sprung open, glimpsing the same fear in Sophia’s wide eyes


    15. He halted short, glimpsing the man on the wall in the faint glow of the fires


    16. Glimpsing intently at every member of the throng they


    17. commented silently, glimpsing at the perforated bodies of employees and security


    18. “Stop it, Mother” Cristian yelled, reaching for her arm, glimpsing the crucifix hanging on her neck


    19. He ignores this and continues through the pages, only briefly glimpsing at pictures of horses, friends, and what looks to be bra burning, until he comes across the final completed pages


    20. She ran into the hallway, not daring to look in the mirror as she passed for fear of glimpsing the giant that surely now followed her

    21. glimpsing the target car in the mirror


    22. front of the hotel, soon glimpsing the street where they had


    23. Descending, and glimpsing the house through the mist and rain,


    24. I separated from Arthur, just glimpsing him turn to join the main battle


    25. Glimpsing for the first time her strength of character, she had stood


    26. know this already; those between 30 and 40 will be glimpsing the


    27. And with it I turned up my collar and set off along the road, journeying by foot to kill time, to feel the city in all its ugliness, the black jugular of the city, with its barren river awash in trash, with animal carcasses and factory waste, slakes of grey froth lapping the bank walls, stagnant and aimless, no sign of a current, on by derelict building sites, by pavements torn up and abandoned, through sheet metal tunnels, the rain coming down harder, banging on the roof, streaming through cracks and then down the rusting panels, along past metal railings, past locked up gardens sold off and privatised, and all the time the cars and wagons screaming along, an endless stream, trails of blue exhaust smoke swirling, the air singeing, on and on, head to the path, barely glimpsing Great Peter setting off for the West, seeing nothing at all until turning up at Kropotkinskaya and finally looking up to the statue there of Engels


    28. The views opened up again as I walked along a ridgeline of volcanic rocks and boulders, glimpsing lakes occasionally below the trail and the land that spread beyond


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    Synonyms for "glimpse"

    coup d'oeil glance glimpse sight look gleam glitter

    "glimpse" definitions

    a quick look


    a brief or incomplete view


    a vague indication


    catch a glimpse of or see briefly