glimmer
/ˈɡlɪmɚ/ noun C2- A faint light; a dim glow. · The glimmer of the fireflies was pleasant to watch.
- A flash of light.
- A faint or remote possibility (as it were a flash of light).
- Mica.
- A subtle, positive micromoment that evokes feelings of joy, safety, calm, or connection.
Plural glimmers
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You can imagine my surprise when, as I looked down this corridor, I saw a glimmer of light coming from the open door of the library.
Again he climbed the rocky height he had ascended the previous evening, and strained his view to catch every peculiarity of the landscape; but it wore the same wild, barren aspect when seen by the rays of the morning sun which it had done when surveyed by the fading glimmer of eve.
When I came round the balcony he had reached the end of the farther corridor, and I could see from the glimmer of light through an open door that he had entered one of the rooms.
There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.
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