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Definition of Glimpsed
1. glimpse [v] - See also: glimpse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glimpsed
Literary usage of Glimpsed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mars as the Abode of Lifeby Percival Lowell by Percival Lowell (1908)
"Wire glimpsed, but faint and diffuse and not visible all the time. ... Line and
wire glimpsed somewhat more certainly than at 1300 ft. station.—v. M. s. ..."
2. A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success, and by Stephan Paternot (2002)
"E WHAT? the origin of the internet and how two Cornell freshmen glimpsed the future
... glimpsed ..."
3. The Chemist ; Or, Reporter of Chemical Discoveries and Improvements by Charles Watt (1840)
"The existence of this radical, which Gros merely glimpsed at, and which I have
been so fortunate as to discover, explains in the simplest manner, ..."
4. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial by Louis Christian Mullgardt, Maud Wotring Raymond, John Hamlin (1915)
"... the murmur of the four hidden fountains that gush unseen from the base of
allegorical groups of statuary, glimpsed through colonnades, is to stand in ..."
5. The Making of Herbert Hoover by Rose Wilder Lane (1920)
"The boy sat dumbfounded before a problem in geometry that revealed heights of
mathematics he had never glimpsed. It must be solved, but how? ..."
6. John Jasper, the Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher by William Eldridge Hatcher (1908)
"X JASPER glimpsed UNDER VARIOUS LIGHTS JASPER'S mother was near the century line
when she died, and he attained unto the extraordinary age of eighty-nine. ..."
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