"Glamourie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his cradle in the glamourie They have stolen my wee brother, Housed a changeling in his swaddlings For to fret my own poor mother. Pules it in the candle light Wi' a cheek so lean and white, Chinkling up its eyne so wee Wailing shrill ...
— Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes • Walter de la Mare
... illusion to that which suggested Poole's inland sea. To the northward he saw a belt of gigantic gum-trees, and beyond them what appeared to be a sheet of water with elevated land on the far side. To the eastward was another large lake. But all this was but the glamourie of the desert — on closer examination the gigantic gums dwindled down to stunted bushes, and the mountainous ground ...
— The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work • Ernest Favenc |
