Glimmerings [noun]

Hast thou not a Brain, furnished, furnishable with some glimmerings of Light; and three fingers to hold a Pen withal?

Of this too there are, though in diluted state, some glimmerings to be had,—chiefly in the Correspondence with Jordan.

Night is about to yield to day; the moon is setting; the first glimmerings of dawn begin to crimson the eastern sky.

That she began to distrust Rupert, I plainly saw, though it was merely with the glimmerings of doubt.

She looked more practically upon her state and began to see glimmerings of a way out.

San Nicandro upon its headland stood like black marble above the far glimmerings of the sea.

We had only faint glimmerings as to where Niort was, or what it stood for, but we were bound thither for the night.

The Life and Mind evidenced in the Particles are but the faintest glimmerings.

The expression of his countenance was that of bewildered uncertainty, relieved by frequent but fitful glimmerings of hope.

Buckley seems to have had glimmerings of this fact, when he tried to get southern teachers for the schools.