Word: glimmers
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...real, but like the glimmer...
...glimmer of your hair...
...glimmer up the road, indistinguishable at first from that of a star in the horizon; now scintillating, now increasing. A faint hum ! a louder and a louder whir! A blaze of light, a screech, a stop, and I am conscious that the express is there, and has pulled up but for a moment. Blinded by the glare, still half in dreamland and wholly confused, I spring upon the train The wheels once more revolve, and I turn to go in, - no door! I rub my eyes, and discover, but too late, that I am between the tender and the baggage...
...defended. In truth, however, it happens again and again that the student of some Greek play attends recitations faithfully, listens carefully to what is said at them, fills sheet after sheet with "notes," and at last, with a sigh of relief, throws down his book without having caught one glimmer of that light which, for those who see it, shines as brightly now as it did when the most ignorant man in Athens felt the roll of the thunder in AEschylus' words, and was the wiser and the better for it. Such an unfortunate result cannot always be prevented...
...could see the radiance of Tom's face in the uncertain glimmer of the Chinese lanterns. He was evidently shivering before the final plunge...