glimpse
He, too, tried circling, in the hope of cutting the other’s circle; but, without catching a
glimpse
of him, he finally emerged upon a fresh clearing where the young trees, waist-high, afforded little shelter and less hiding.
They saw it but for a
glimpse
for the window was instantly thrust down; but that
glimpse
had been sufficient, and they turned and left the court without a word.
At first I could see nothing, but presently I caught a
glimpse
of a bit of smooth and glossy green moving among the scarlet and purple and yellow of the vegetation.
He was drunken in new and more profound ways – with Ruth, who had fired him with love and with a
glimpse
of higher and eternal life; with books, that had set a myriad maggots of desire gnawing in his brain; and with the sense of personal cleanliness he was achieving, that gave him even more superb health than what he had enjoyed and that made his whole body sing with physical well- being.
At least, through what seems no more than verbal yammerings, you may, perchance,
glimpse
faint far vistas of other lands and tribes.
The first
glimpse
of her new home was a delight to eye and spirit–it looked so like a big, creamy seashell stranded on the harbor shore.
The evident alarm the savages betrayed filled me with forebodings of evil, and with an uncontrollable desire to penetrate the secret so jealously guarded Despite the efforts of Marheyo and Kory-Kory to restrain me, I forced my way into the midst of the circle, and just caught a
glimpse
of three human heads, which others of the party were hurriedly enveloping in the coverings from which they had been taken.
So I got the false whiskers and the goggles and this countrified suit of clothes, and fetched them along back in a hand-bag; and when I was passing a shop where they sell all sorts of things, I got a
glimpse
of one of my pals through the window.
Grant me but one
glimpse
of thine interior, and I am satisfied for ever, remaining henceforth thy docile pupil, thy unemancipable slave, ready to receive all thy teachings and to feed upon the words that fall from thy lips.
We caught a
glimpse
of the handsome tessellated pavements within and of the devotees performing their ablutions at the fountains, but even that we took that
glimpse
was a thing not relished by the Moorish bystanders.
WHILE bathing, Antinous was seen by Minerva, who was so enamoured of his beauty that, all armed as she happened to be, she descended from Olympus to woo him; but, unluckily displaying her shield, with the head of Medusa on it, she had the unhappiness to see the beautiful mortal turn to stone from catching a
glimpse
of it.
I had one little
glimpse
of another thing, one day, which gave me a great uplift.