glimpse
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glimpse englanniksi
To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.
(RQ:Stuart-Wortley Sonnets)
(quote-journal). Chapter 8.|editor=Farnsworth Wright|journal=Tales|Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual|location=Indianapolis, Ind.|publisher=Popular Fiction Pub. Co.|volume=XVIII|issue=1|page=67|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v18n01_1931-08.Popular_Fiction_ATLPM-Sas/page/n68/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=55045234|passage=Those wild hills are surely the outpost of a frightful cosmic race—as I doubt all the less since reading that a new ninth planet has been glimpsed beyond Neptune, just as those influences had said it would be glimpsed.
(quote-book) glimpses mean that the night is drawing in, that the ship will be sailing into the dark. 'Illumined' also carries its own gothic charge, and what she glimpses is not therefore a passenger ship but a ship of death, more foreboding than inviting.
To perceive (something intangible) briefly and incompletely.
(ux)
(quote-book)|page=16|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-oUsANmmcUC&pg=PA16|oclc=3907780|passage=What memories? / The pure love thoughts and who may know / Thou glimpsest from the long ago?
(RQ:Lowell My Study Windows) White.
(RQ:Coates Unconquered Air)
(quote-journal)|volume=182|number=21|author=Elizabeth A. Johnson|title=Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet|url=https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2000/06/17/mary-nazareth-friend-god-and-prophet|text=To glimpse the actual woman behind these texts in any kind of full and adequate way is impossible. New studies of the political, economic, social and cultural fabric of first-century Palestine, however, enable us to fill in aspects of her life in broad strokes.
''Chiefly followed by'' at or upon: to at briefly and incompletely; to glance.
(RQ:Hawthorne English Notebooks)
To shine with a faint, unsteady light; to glimmer, to shimmer.
(synonyms)
(RQ:Surrey et al Songes)
(RQ:Gascoigne Steele Glas)
To appear or start to appear, especially faintly or unclearly; to dawn.
(RQ:Drayton Poems)
''Sometimes followed by'' out: to provide a brief and incomplete look.
(senseid) ''Chiefly followed by'' of: a brief and incomplete look.
(syn)
(hypo)
(RQ:Lyly Euphues)
(RQ:Spenser Fowre Hymnes) vvhich did ſpend / His plenteous vaine in ſetting forth her (quote-gloss) prayſe, / Seene but a glims of this, vvhich I pretend, / Hovv vvondrouſly vvould he her face commend, (..)
(RQ:Bunyan Holy War)
(RQ:Radcliffe Italian)
(RQ:Rogers Friend)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)
(RQ:Irving Sketch Book)
(RQ:Hazlitt Table-Talk)
(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol) went straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant.
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set)
(quote-journal)
(quote-journal) Revie A Nostalgic Treat|journal=City A.M.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203035926/https://www.cityam.com/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-review-a-nostalgic-treat/|location=London|publisher=THG plc|page=18|column=2|issn=2516-5445|oclc=1064664820|passage=An opening sequence, featuring a de-aged Ford|(quote-gloss) Ford playing a younger Indy (quote-gloss), is a bold and nostalgic gambit, offering a glimpse of what you've missed.
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2)
(RQ:G. Fletcher Christs Victorie) skull, his ſtaring eyes did glovve, / That made him deadly looke, their glimpſe did ſhovve / Like Cockatrices eyes, that ſparks of poyſon throvve.
(RQ:Browne Hydriotaphia)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Dryden Fables)
(RQ:Scott Canongate 2)
(RQ:Tennyson Princess) / The shimmering glimpses of a stream; (..)
(RQ:De Quincey Works) English Crackenthorpius (who has the honour to be an ancestor of Mr. Wordsworth|(quote-gloss) Wordsworth), though buried for two centuries, will revisit the glimpses of the moon.|footer=A reference to William Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet''—see the ''c.'' 1599–1602 quotation above.
(RQ:Emerson Nature)
(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)
A brief, unspecified amount of time; a moment.
(RQ:Byron Works) Alwin smiled, / When aught that from his young lips archly fell / The gloomy film from Harold's eye beguiled; / And pleased for a glimpse appeared the woeful Childe.
A faint (and often temporary) appearance; a tinge.
(RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Q1) an attaint, but he carries ſome ſtain of it.
(RQ:Browne Religio Medici) nature, as light in the Sunne and Elements; (..)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)