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Meanings of rather dim in English

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Usage of rather dim in English
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Ayla opened her eyes to see a rather dim, unfamiliar image.
The Land of Painted Caves
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The evening meal was prepared cheerfully and roughly, eaten under a rather dim lamp.
The Rules of the Game
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We passed some swampy woods, rather dim and junglelike.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910
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The actual making of the prophecy was rather dim to her mind until he recalled it.
The Last Shot
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In the rather dim light of the gloomy old room the boys and girls looked queer-almostghostly.
Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall; Or, Leading a Needed Rebell...
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Three of the windows showed lights; two were rather dim, however, the result probably of one lamp only.
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 06
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The light was kept rather dim.
Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University...
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The lamplight was rather dim.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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Her color was sharply white and red, and in the rather dim light her skin was like a girl's.
Lister's Great Adventure
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The bride and bridegroom at last stood side by side in the lofty but rather dim room, panelled with oak.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5
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I, too, was just bidding farewell to the Land of Joseph, and I fear my sight was also rather dim.
Story of Chester Lawrence / Being the Completed Account of One w...
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It was a clear evening, with a bright English moon,-thatis to say, what we Americans should call rather dim.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
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It had been evening when I dropped from the clouds, but the mist kept the light very white though rather dim.
The Man from the Clouds
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What it does do is cast a rather dim image onto a very nearby wall, without batteries or lights of any kind.
Wired
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He says himself that the whole thing seems rather dim now, as if he had seen it in a very vivid dream.
The Necromancers
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Though the light was rather dim, you could see all the way to the horizon quite clearly, with no atmosphere in the way.
The Forever War
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Rather dim across language varieties
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