glance

vilkaista, katsahtaa

vilkaisu

lyödä kulmaan puhekieltä To look briefly (at something).

She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, / Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.

From art, from nature, from the schools, / Let random influences glance, / Like light in many a shivered lance, / That breaks about the dappled pools.

And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, / His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet.

Your arrow hath glanced.

On me the curse aslope / Glanced on the ground.

I started — I dropped the glass — the fluid flamed and glanced along the floor, while I felt Cornelius's gripe at my throat, as he shrieked aloud, "Wretch! you have destroyed the labour of my life!"

Wherein obscurely / Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.

He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.

Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.

Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer's office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.

swift as the lightning glance

How fleet is a glance of the mind.

(ux)