Lexicographical Neighbors of Glancings
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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