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Definition of Gloams
1. gloam [n] - See also: gloam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gloams
Literary usage of Gloams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Who's who by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1898)
"... to the nums-uber of os--em hs-alf a sss-/li/sssu ; ‘Ts-s-us-us-si gloams-s-is-i'
as-ssI the Mink, bus-/mug Tales- as-ssI Sketchs-u's of thue North ..."
2. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1843)
"... and extinguished its brightness—and though the star of Bethlehem quickly rose
to relume ils darkness and lend it its light, it still gloams its ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1877)
"For the gloams was the great family here fifty years ago, and was landlords of
most of the farms roundabout; but they steered a bad course, as I might say, ..."
4. Herodotus by Herodotus (1840)
"... the net secures the way ; And night's pale gloams will bring the scaly prey.
9 Factious citizens.'}—-The whole account given by Herodotus of the conduct ..."
5. A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery of the by William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay (1882)
"One or two gloams of apparent success preluded the dark days to come. Intelligence
was received that a considerable force of the enemy were near Hanover ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"... yet always graceful, English in which his thoughts were clothed, and not less
the quiet humor whose lambent gloams were seldom intermitted for long. ..."
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