Lexicographical Neighbors of Glancers
Literary usage of Glancers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophy in Poetry: A Study of Sir John Davies's Poem "Nosce Teipsum" by Elias Hershey Sneath (1903)
"Your mere readers of title-pages and contents, or glancers over indices are
constantly blundering after this fashion. Dalrymple was one of these. ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1858)
"... and yet who more needs to be caught with their own grain than the rapid,
rollicking glancers-on-the-wing at truth ? Now such things do not at all meet ..."
3. American Annals of Education (1836)
"Long articles you must have — good, indeed, as well as long ; treatises, not
scraps — such as glancers will call dull, but such as readers will find 29* ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1843)
"Roamers of earth and air— Free children of the woods— Bright glancers o'er the
floods, Ye are upon the mountains. With proud and lonely flight ; Ye are upon ..."
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