Mac bent down, shading his eyes from the faint flame flicker.

The man's life, seen in its true proportions, dwindled into the merest flicker of a match; he had such a little while to live, this Rudolph Musgrave!

De Chauxville saw by a little flicker of the eyelids that he had not missed his mark.

Far off in the night, a hundred yards or more up the road, leading to Grimes' cabin he saw the wobbling, uncertain flicker of a light wending its way like a will-o'-the-wisp through the night.

All were alike invisible to the Pontiff, who, with the dim flicker of his lamp, could no more discern Judaea wed with Egypt on the frescoed ceiling than, with the human limitation of his faculties, he could foresee that the ill-reputed rooms would one day harbour a portion of the Vatican Library, so greatly enriched by himself.

He tugged his broad-brimmed hat a little lower across his eyes and poised himself, as if on tiptoe; his glance was a constant flicker about the room until it came to rest on Bull.

Hobart and Turner were absent for some little while; the sound of their voices ceased, but the distant flicker of the lantern enabled West to trace their progress up the alley, and then back again.

London was getting stale and tired, and the last feverish flickers of the exhausted season alternated with a kind of languor in which nobody bothered much about anybody else's affairs.

I can best describe the passage of day and night, at this period, as a sort of gigantic, ponderous flicker.

An irresistible flicker of laughter twitched his wrinkles and bubbled in his throat.

There was still an occasional flicker of lightning and mutter of thunder and the darkness remained heavy.

This is a comfortable chamber, with an oak wainscot; and whenever in summer months the air is sharp enough, as on the present occasion, a fire helped to light it up; which fire, being chiefly wood, made a pleasant broad flicker on panel and ceiling, and yet did not make the room too hot.

I can best describe the passage of day and night, at this period, as a sort of gigantic, ponderous flicker.

" My acting must have been good, for I could have sworn I saw a faint expression of relieved contempt flicker across McMurtrie's face.

Something in the keen eyes of the lad raised a responsive flicker in his own.

A sardonic flicker that was scarcely a smile touched his face.

A sharp slap on the cheek with the wet towel produced a sensible flicker of the eyelids; a similar slap on the chest was followed by a slight gasp.

As he left the stable-yard, he was whistling light-heartedly, and Phipps glanced at a colleague with a slight flicker of one eyelid.

It was so thrown obliquely that the hands reached to the window-sill, and the feet stretched and stretched, longer and longer as she looked, toward the ground, and disappeared in the general darkness; and the rest, with a sudden flicker, shot downwards, as shadows will on the sudden movement of a light, and was lost in one gigantic leap down the castle wall.

When it was just a tiny flicker he dropped to sleep.

The tremulous flicker of a smile passed over the faces of the listening crowd, and the Colonel slightly winced.

Is it because you sit here all day blaming me for all the things that have happened to you?" The dark flush and the uneasy flicker of Gregg's glance gave a sufficient answer.

War's end in 1945 saw the shadow of a universal state flicker across the screen of history.

The unsteady white flicker behind the trees had sunk and changed to smoky red.

They drift under the alternate flicker and gloom of the windy rooms of pines, in gray rock shelters, and by the ooze of blind springs, and their juxtapositions are the best imaginable.