glimpse vs pass by

glimpse

verb
  • To see or view briefly or incompletely. 

  • To appear by glimpses. 

noun
  • A brief look, glance, or peek. 

  • A sudden flash. 

  • A faint idea; an inkling. 

pass by

verb
  • To travel past (something) without stopping; to ignore, to disregard. 

  • to drop by 

  • Of a period of time: to come to an end, to elapse. 

  • To travel past without stopping. 

How often have the words glimpse and pass by occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )