By the glimmer in his eye, he wanted her to move.

There was the first glimmer of doubt in Fitzgerald's eye.

Martha asked, showing the first glimmer of interest since being told of her forced departure.

With the capture of Alexandria by Omar in 641, the last glimmer of its scientific light became extinct, to be rekindled, a century and a half later, on the banks of the Tigris.

The Roman occupation has left not many material relics in Scotland, and save for letting a glimmer of Christianity into the south-west, did nothing which permanently affected the institutions of the partially subjugated peoples.