glance 
glance (glans, gläns)
intransitive verb glanced, glanc′·ing
- to strike a surface obliquely and go off at an angle: usually with off
- to make an indirect or passing reference: with over, at, etc.
- to flash or gleam
- to look suddenly and briefly; take a quick look
Etymology: ME glansen, glenchen, prob. a blend < OFr glacier, to slip (see glacis) + guenchir, to elude < Frank *wenkjan, to totter; akin to OE wancol, unstable
transitive verb
to cause (an object) to strike a surface at an angle and be deflected
noun
- a glancing off; deflected impact
- a flash or gleam
- a quick look
glance (glans)
glance
v.
Object
- header: Parker then turned provider for Paul Hartley who met Parker's cross with a glancing header just inches over the bar.
- blow: The one which struck the viaduct was a glancing blow on ends of sleepers, which with rails on downside, damaged.
Converse of object
- admire: I was a die-hard wintel user for many years, paying only the occasional admiring glance at Macs.
- cast: Smith cast a cold glance back at him over his left shoulder.
- sneak: Rowena slipped into her nightdress, and tried to sneak a glance at David to see if she had caught his attention.
- snatch: Snatching furtive glances at the top shelf - all those chunky, garish plastic boxes, full of the promise of horrid delights.
- steal: I felt really bad for her, " he said, stealing a sad glance at Mimi.
- exchange: The three exchanged worried glances, then they heard the sound of salvation.
Preposition: at
- clock: Around thirty minutes later I glanced at the clock, it was exactly 1:00.
Adjective modifier
- cursory: Even a cursory glance at Hurd's outstanding book reveals his dependable traits.
- sideways: Hockney takes a sideways glance at the stories, presenting vivid images capturing the mood or detail rather than the main event.
- sidelong: On Monday a sidelong glance at addiction - what's yours?
- furtive: Presently the boy began to steal furtive glances at the girl.
- quick: A quick glance around the street gave no clues.
- fleeting: I only got two fleeting glances silhouetted against the sky.
Modifying Another Word
- nervously: New Years Eve... The tall, powerfully built Australian glanced nervously around the room.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- across: Leaning on the shovel, he took a much needed breather, before glancing across at the Doctor, standing bare-headed in the drizzle.
- over: Unable to stop herself, she glanced over her shoulder.
- around: Rob glanced around at the cemetery in the grounds of the nearby church.
Preposition: in
- mirror: We shot our story without even a glance in the mirror trusting that " happy on the inside " would translate.
O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom, or the bole? O body swayed to music,O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?
These people in the senseless hurry of their idle lives do not read books, they merely snatch a glance at them that they may talk about them. And even if this were not so, never forget what I believe was observed by Coleridge, that every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever his glance falls he turns all things to beauty.
For I have a song to sing,O! It is sung to the moon By a love-lorn loon, Who fled from the mocking throng,O! It's the song of a merryman moping mum, Whose soul was sad and whose glance was glum Who sipped no sup and who craved no crumb, As he sighed for the love of a ladye!
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