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present participle and gerund of glance examples
comparative more glancing, superlative most glancing
Making superficial, obtuse contact with something. quotations examples
She looked with a grudging eye on this waste of life and beauty—there was none for him; and the sight of the coffin, with its deep black pall borne slowly along the glancing path, was a contrast of unutterable misery. It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), pages 324–325
plural glancings
A sideways look; a glance. quotations examples
No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy.
1856, David Brown, Christ's second coming: will it be pre-millennial?