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"Glim" Quotes from Famous Books

... whose eye's were dim, Could tell by tasting, just the spot, And so below, he'd "dowse the glim,"— After, of course, his ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... it is. But look to be ready to douse your glim. Boomery's a nailer at turning up unexpected." The ...

— The Secret of the Tower • Hope, Anthony

... a suspicion that we have some business with him, for at four bells he turned his head in for the shore," added the commander. "If you go forward you will see that we have dowsed every glim on board, even to our mast-head and ...

— Fighting for the Right • Oliver Optic

... to time," replied Chief Waller. "And after the thing had been successfully done, he could watch the two thieves gathering the swag together, and putting it in a satchel they found in the cashier's room. Then, just at a quarter to three they doused the glim, which was only an electric torch one of them carried, and skipped out, locking the door on poor Cadger. It was hours afterwards when the day watchman came on duty and ...

— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy

... comply; the master-at-arms insisted; she threatened him with the vengeance of the Company, the premier, and the nobility and gentry of the British realm. The master-at-arms, finding he had no chance in argument, doused the glim—pitiable resource of a weak disputant—then basely fled the ...

— Great Sea Stories • Various