Word: glimmering
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...back in the recesses of one such cavern on Tristan Island, Arthur Repetto, brother of the island's headman, found a ship's figurehead. Its ghostlike glimmer "skeered" him at first. When he went in he found a beautifully modeled maiden, nine feet high. Her hair was done up in a bun behind her head; a long cloak, which her left hand grasped, covered her dress. Her right hand held a lily to her bosom. Around her neck was carved a necklace of disks; a tasseled cord girdled her waist. On each arm was a bracelet hung with...
...Colonel, his short legs pumping up & down with extraordinary speed, churned straight up the slope toward the firing. A queer glimmer of a smile played around his lips. Three riflemen, an officer called Jack, two soldiers with walkie-talkies and I scrambled after him, while the rest of the battalion flew across the lower slopes...
...crossed the Mekong and the Salween en route to the Japanese lines with lights out, our formation tight, the interlocking ships black against the rising moon behind them. Tengyueh lay absolutely still within the rectangular walls of its valley, with not a glimmer of light anywhere. But the brilliance of the moon traced the outlines of the walls and the main streets in clear, sharp shadows...
...struck me in the face. I put my hand to my face and eyes. I felt blood and raw flesh. . . . The Japs in the trees fired a steady downpour of bullets that chipped up dirt all around us and ripped through our sandbags. ... I strained my eyes for a, glimmer of light, but I couldn...
...small nucleus of six returning lettermen shone in the midst of 55 candidates for the basketball team at its first practice session last night, and gave Coach Earl Brown at least a glimmer of hope for the coming season...