Definition of Glancings

1. glancing [n] - See also: glancing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glancings

glanc't
glance
glance away
glance off
glance over
glanceability
glanceable
glanced
glanceless
glancer
glancers
glances
glancing
glancing wound
glancingly
glancings
gland
gland disease
glandage
glandered
glanderous
glanders
glanders bacillus
glandes
glandiferous
glandiform
glandilemma
glandless
glandlike
glands

Literary usage of Glancings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Christ's Second Coming: Will it be Pre-millennial? by David Brown (1882)
"... does not imply the synchronism; but arises only out of the comprehensive glancings of prophecy, embracing and interlacing together in its view the whole ..."

2. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1840)
"It came so near our boat, although several persons were looking on, that I could perceive the glancings of its eye. The Teal, on the point of being caught, ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Poor Marie Antoinette; with thy quick, noble instincts, vehement glancings, vision ail-too fitful narrow for the work thou hast to do! ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... vehement glancings, vision all too fitful narrow for the work thou hast to do ! Oh, there are tears in store for thee; bitterest wailings, soft womanly ..."

5. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"All is not pipeclay, then, and torpid formalism; aloft from the murk of commonplace rise glancings of a starry splendour, betokening—O how much ! ..."

6. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"These swift glancings of the “mind's eye” make you see life more deeply, and they keep you from being commonplace, alive only because you are breathing. ..."

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