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noun

Glimpse n.

A sudden flash; transient luster. "LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran."

A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight. "Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen."

A faint idea; an inkling.

verb

Glimpse v. t. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of. "Some glimpsing and no perfect sight."

Glimpse v. i. (past & past part. glimpsed; pres. part. glimpsing) To appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.

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Etymology of 'Glimpse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glimpse" Quotes from Famous Books

... manner. 'I ask no more! I have been standing about, on this side of the way, to see that gentleman,' turning her head back towards Mr. Bounderby's again, 'come out. But, he's late this year, and I have not seen him. You came out instead. Now, if I am obliged to go back without a glimpse of him - I only want a glimpse - well! I have seen you, and you have seen him, and I must make that do.' Saying this, she looked at Stephen as if to fix his features in her mind, and her eye was not so bright as ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

... passed by Barbara and smiled. It was Marjorie Moore. She was not going to try to shake hands with the President. She had a note book and a pencil in her hand and was evidently bent on business. Barbara also caught a glimpse of Peter Dillon, but he did not come ...

— The Automobile Girls At Washington • Laura Dent Crane

... wended his way through strange streets and lanes, with a big haversack under his arm, which Daley had relieved him of at the door, and brought into the room under his arm. As soon as Manuel caught a glimpse of him, he rose and clasped the little fellow in his arms with a fond embrace. No greeting could be more affecting. Manuel exulted at seeing his little companion; but Tommy looked grieved, and asked, "But what has scarred your face so, Manuel? You didn't look ...

— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams

... hide-and-seek finely, didn't we?" he cried cheerily. "Afraid you had all your trouble for nothing. I happened to catch a glimpse of you heading off in the wrong direction, so turned into 'It' myself, and rooted them all out of their lairs. Then we played some sensible, middle-aged, sitting-down games, and strolled home in time for a siesta before dinner. Very good ...

— Big Game - A Story for Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... a not very friendly "Good day" uttered by two men in passing each other, and then the dwindling of the footfall of one of them in a direction onwards. Eustacia stretched her neck forward till she caught a glimpse of a receding back and shoulders; and she felt a wretched twinge of misery, she knew not why. It was the sickening feeling which, if the changed heart has any generosity at all in its composition, accompanies the sudden sight of a once-loved one who ...

— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy

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