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Sentences ending with dim

Warm compassion seized upon the tender-hearted young widow, and her own eyes grew dim. [10]
All round the side of the room were set coloured lights, shaded and dim. [11]
Her face had shriveled, her upper lip had sunk in, and her eyes were dim. [2]
I heard him say that with my own ears, an' I saw his big eyes grow dim. [13]
There was a rushing noise in her ears, and her eyes grew dim. [10]
Mona--Kitty, the two names, the two who, so far, had touched his life, each in her own way, as none others had done, they floated before his eyes till sight and feeling grew dim. [11]
That I should love him is no wonder, but that he should love me--' and there the schoolmaster stopped, and took off his spectacles to wipe them, as though they had grown dim. [12]
By and by its outlines began to waver and grow dim. [5]
He could scarcely hold the pen now, and his eyes were growing dim. [11]
Her eyes grew dim. [2]

Short sentences using dim

It seemed very dim. [11]
But it's so dim, now. [5]

Sentences containing dim two or more times

It had grown dim in my mind, by and by, then it disappeared; but it was back now, and not dim. [5]

More example sentences with the word dim in them

You'll know, and your country'll know, what's going on here in the hum of the dim bazaars. [11]
Such was Amasis' young, fading daughter, who was now being carried past them, and many an eye grew dim as the beautiful invalid came in sight. [10]
A good many young people think nothing about life as it presents itself in the far horizon, bounded by the snowy ridges of threescore and the dim peaks beyond that remote barrier. [6]
There was the world of the Old Testament, of David and Samson, and of those dim figures in the dawn of history, called the Patriarchs. [4]
Share thy happiness with thy neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. [2]
One heavenward draws, with rays so mild and clear, Eyes dim with tears, when the world darkness veils, Showing 'mid desert wastes the spring anear, If, spent with wandering, your courage fails. [10]
He climbed on, with frequent stops to watch the rim, and before he dreamed of gaining the bench he bumped his knees into it, and saw, in the dim gray light, his rifle and the rabbit. [13]
Tipsy and perspiring, with dim eyes and wide-open mouths, they were all laboriously singing some song or other. [2]
Three of the windows showed lights; two were rather dim, however, the result probably of one lamp only. [10]
She wore a white robe with wide, open sleeves, and her arms shone in the dim light as white as her garment. [10]
The assemblage rose, whiffed ceremony to the winds, and rushed for the door like a mob; overturning chairs, smashing crockery, tugging, struggling, shouldering, crowding--anything to get out before I should change my mind and puff the castle into the measureless dim vacancies of space. [5]
There was nothing whatever in this dim marble prison but five more of these biers. [5]
Vaguely she realized what had been working in him, but yet the knowledge was dim indeed. [11]
His eyes, too, were dim, and he repeated to me what I had already heard him say in the conference, and wrote the same thing to my mother in a letter explaining my departure from the school. [10]
Barbara Golding's eyes were dim with tears. [11]
His grave eyes were dim with tears as, when taking leave, he whispered to the Lady Euryale: "All is well. [10]
She groped her way up to the dim garret, the scene of her memorable punishment. [6]
Close by us was the Grand Stand--tier on tier of dim thrones rising up toward the zenith. [5]
I think there was music; but it is all dim now and blurred by the lapse of time, and this may be only a senile fancy. [5]
I saw he was looking at the dim photograph of memory, and turned from him to Iris. [6]
After the book was finished it was discovered that Susy had a dim model of Soldier Boy in her arms; I had forgotten all about that toy. [5]
Here the light was dim, and the masses of people were pretty closely packed together. [5]
Outside indeed it was dim and wet, but within it was no less comfortable, for a mighty fire was blazing in the wide chimney-place. [10]
Ten steps away was a little wickiup, a dim and formless shelter of rags and old horse-blankets, a dull light showing through its chinks. [5]
He did not want to know what lay hidden in the dim and distant future. [13]
Before it, scarcely visible in the dim light, stood the altars, loaded with sacrifices by Archibius. [10]
The city of Victoria was twinkling dim in the deep heart of her smoke-cloud, and getting ready to vanish and now we closed the field-glasses and sat down on our steamer chairs contented and at peace. [5]
Finally, with a venomous access of irritation, I said I would leave without the sock; so I rose up and made straight for the door--as I supposed--and suddenly confronted my dim spectral image in the unbroken mirror. [5]
There are no valentines, no stolen interviews, no riding out, no courting in dim parlors, no lovers' quarrels and reconciliations--no nothing that is proper to approaching matrimony. [5]
His mother and two noble sons were snatched from him in a day; and he would again have had recourse to poison as a refuge from all, if a dim ray of hope had not permitted him to believe in their escape. [10]
And gray old trees of hugest limb Shall wheel their circling shadows round To make the scorching sunlight dim That drinks the greenness from the ground, And drop their dead leaves on her mound. [6]
I am a tottering ruin and my eyes are dim, but I recognized it. [5]
When De Soto took his fleeting glimpse of the river, away back in the dim early days, he took it from that same spot--the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas. [5]
But their light, too, was dim, and veiled as it were with clouds. [10]
Yet we are told that Moses himself lived to be a hundred and twenty years old, and that his eye was not dim nor his natural strength abated. [6]
From Baton Rouge to New Orleans, the great sugar plantations border both sides of the river all the way, and stretch their league-wide levels back to the dim forest-walls of bearded cypress in the rear. [5]
They had seemed to melt into a dim and airy distance, as the prospect of ever beholding them again grew fainter; but, as they receded, she had loved and panted for them more. [12]
We went aft to find some breakfast, and the first thing we noticed was that there was a dim light burning in a compass back there under a hood. [5]
I say, appeared to be; for we stood in thick fog or in the heart of clouds which limited our dim view to a radius of twenty feet. [4]
If it comes to a battle my old soldier's eyes, dim as they are now, may with the help of yours see many things that may be useful to you young ones. [10]
For the first time since his mother's death his own eyes grew dim, as shouts of farewell rang warmly and loudly from the manly breasts of his soldiers. [10]
At the same time she pressed her lips so tightly together that her toothless mouth deepened into a hole, and her dim eyes shone with a keen, menacing light. [10]
For the first time she had been brought face to face with life in hideous earnest, and when the singer went to look for her in her room, at dusk, he was startled to find her bright face clouded and her eyes dim with tears. [10]
He drifted silently through the dim reflections of the crags and trees, with his intent eyes fixed upon the low cliff which he was approaching. [5]
For life all through is but waiting for the end; and even when we have taken the last Sacrament and our eyes are dim in death then most of all must we take Patience, waiting for that we shall find beyond the grave. [10]
For two or three hours we jogged along the level road which skirts the beautiful lake of Thun, with a dim and dreamlike picture of watery expanses and spectral Alpine forms always before us, veiled in a mellowing mist. [5]
Old men were there, whose eyes were dim and senses failing--grandmothers, who might have died ten years ago, and still been old--the deaf, the blind, the lame, the palsied, the living dead in many shapes and forms, to see the closing of that early grave. [12]
No pomp was there, no glory shone around On the coarse straw that strewed the reeking ground; One dim retreat a flickering torch betrayed, In that poor cell the Lord of Life was laid! [6]
The rack was there, and the other instruments, and there was a smoky lantern or two hanging on the walls and helping to make the place look dim and dreadful. [5]
But the people there would not know me, and my old master's name, Louis, is but a dim legend in the wards where he used to teach his faithful band of almost worshipping students. [6]
It seemed to them as if the song filled the dim, cold corridor with warmth and sunlight. [10]
These thoughts worked their dim way through Huck's mind, and under the weariness they gave him he fell asleep. [5]
She was like the sun; on whatsoever dim and humble object her rays fell, that thing was straightway drowned in glory. [5]
Steaming slowly in the stupendous Delagoa Bay, its dim arms stretching far away and disappearing on both sides. [5]
The eyes of the royal huntress, though she was by no means unduly soft-hearted, grew dim with tears. [10]
Farther away, on the right and left, the light was dim, and near the side walls the darkness was as intense as in a real tomb. [10]
Gray slopes, tinging the purple, barren and wild, with the wind waving the sage, swept away to the dim horizon. [13]
At eight o'clock, the priests were chanting vespers to a larger congregation than many churches have on Sunday: their voices were rich and musical, and, joined with the organ notes, floated sweetly and impressively through the dim and vast interior. [4]
He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the winking stars, and by and by got to talking about himself. [5]
Shall I betray the moon, when I am sure of gaining nothing thereby save to dim the warm light of the sun? [10]
Hear some of the low murmurs of happiness we, who listened, heard:-- "I really seem to have had scarcely a spare moment since that dim quiet June morning, when you, E----, and myself all walked down to Haworth Church. [14]
Sometimes I turned the lights low: this gave perspective, you see; and the imagination could play; always, the dim receding ranks of the dead inspired one with weird and fascinating fancies. [5]
The eyes of the former even grew dim with tears as he pressed a farewell kiss upon Barbara's brow. [10]
Next we had the Flood, and the Ark tossing around in the stormy waters, with lofty mountains in the distance showing veiled and dim through the rain. [5]
Could I call the fabled Hydra, I would have him live and perish, survive and die, until the sun itself would grow dim with age. [5]
Within the room the dim light of the little lamp and the fiery glare of the lightning illumined tear-stained, agitated faces. [10]
We tramped through the dim corridors, winding this way and that, and piercing ever deeper and deeper into that vast heart of stone, and at last we stood before Joan. [5]
Once we saw the dim bulk of a couple of them, far away, spectral and dreamy things; members of the Horne-Alofa and Fortuna. [5]
I could see the dim blur of the windows, but in my turned-around condition they were exactly where they ought not to be, and so they only confused me instead of helping me. [5]
I could see the dim blur of the window, but of course it was in the wrong place and could give me no information as to where I was. [5]
He thought of the dim and dread future,--all the changes that it would bring to him, to all the living, to the face of the globe, to the order of earthly things. [6]
Soon one heard the deep tones of the organ and of chanting men; then one saw a long file of lights approaching through the dim church. [5]
Presently he saw the curtain of the window raised, and against the dim light of the room was outlined the figure of his wife. [11]
When I judged that the time was ripe, I crept to the room next the nursery, glanced through the window, and saw the dim outline of the coachman in the yard below, standing at present-arms and waiting for a chance. [5]
Then I saw that he had a mask on and was holding something in my face--I heard a click-click and recognized a revolver in dim outline. [5]
Tom found a subterranean lake, shortly, which stretched its dim length away until its shape was lost in the shadows. [5]
Of the United States he had only a dim conception, but his mind rather rested upon the statement that we lived "near Boston. [4]
Her sensitive face spoke a wonderful language: a divine gratitude and thankfulness; and her eyes had a clear moisture which did not dim them. [11]
He would not spoil the development of the drama, of which he now held the fluttering prologue, by any blunt treatment; he would touch this and that nerve gently to see what past connection there was between: "These dim blown birds beneath an alien sky. [11]
In their far-off splendor they rose upon our imaginations dim and huge, shadowy and awful, and it was a fearful thing to hear them spoken of as if they were mere men, and their acts open to comment and criticism. [5]
So the wide space, dim with smoke, was illumined only by a dull, varying glimmer. [10]
I made out some dim forms, and a woman started up from the ground and stared at me, as one does who is wakened from sleep. [5]
The light fell softly but clearly on the dim and faded canvas from which looked the saintly features of the martyred woman, whose continued presence with her descendants was the old family legend. [6]
It was all so dim, so like clouded silver, the trees and the grass and the bushes and the night. [11]
There was a singular stillness in this sombre Royal Court, where only a tallow candle or two and a dim lanthorn near the door filled the room with flickering shadows-great heads upon the wall drawing close together, and vast lips murmuring awful secrets. [11]
An alabaster lamp shed a dim light in the bed-room, softly and still smiling he went up to Glycera's ivory couch, and held up his lamp, and stared at the empty and undisturbed bed--and the smile faded from his lips. [10]
She wondered; then she was just a grain troubled; next a dim suspicion came and went--came again; she watched; a furtive glance told her worlds--and then her heart broke, and she was jealous, and angry, and the tears came and she hated everybody. [5]
Again and again she repeated the prayer, but when Bessie's dim eyes no longer met hers and her hands fell into her lap, she could not help thinking of Peter, the assembly, the fate of the city, and the words: "Leyden saved, Holland saved! [10]
In his presence she lost her fear of the dim passageways of Withersteen House and of every sound. [13]
This took dim shape, presently--it was budding homesickness. [5]
In the dim shadow of the curtain her luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that were in them. [2]
Red-haired Gitta was sewing another patch of cloth upon her rough husband's already well-mended jerkin by the dim light of a small lamp, into which she had put some fat and a bit of rag for a wick. [10]
Here in a secluded nook was a bench from which, through an opening in the tree-tops, could be seen the sage-slope and the wall of rock and the dim lines of canyons. [13]
I do not say that your heart will beat as mine did, I am willing to confess, when I entered the dim chamber. [6]
All that Tom saw, at first, was a dirty, coal-spattered shed with dim recesses, for it was lighted on one side only, and its temperature was somewhere below freezing. [9]
When I first saw these records, now grown dim with time, I fell to wondering what was the real life-history of these two people. [11]
And as he sat there his eyes grew dim and heavy and his head fell on his heaving breast. [10]
I saw the sage, an' runnin' hosses--an' thet's the beautfulest sight to me--an' I saw dim things in the dark, an' there was a kind of hummin' in my ears. [13]
All the skeleton-like ribs of the roof showed in the dim light, naked overhead, and the only floor to be trusted consisted of the few boards which bridged the lath and plaster. [6]
But I have recognized the weary head and the dim eyes, finally. [5]

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