The air was mottled with pine-tassels and bright green plumes, that went flashing past in the sunlight like birds pursued.

He touched it to the rags of his coat, and the oil-soaked cloth flashed brightly into flame.

For while he linger'd there, A doubt that ever smoulder'd in the hearts Of those great lords and barons of his realm Flashed forth and into war; for most of these, Colleaguing with a score of petty kings, Made head against him crying: "Who is he That should rule us?

" A sudden forgotten recollection of my first interview with McMurtrie flashed vividly into my mind.

"He expects to finish this fight for his own amusement," flashed angrily through Darrin's mind.

" "That is very wrong of them, and entirely unavoidable," Rance answered, calmly, "But the opinion of the neighbors has never bothered me yet," he continued; "why should it in this instance?" Mrs. Corbett's eyes flashed ominously.

" "Who'll make it?" flashed back Roy indignantly.

His thoughts flashed almost too swiftly for comprehension.

Each pin represented a ship, and each ship was obedient to an order flashed from the big aerials overhead.

The bearers hear and stay; Up starts the form; wide flash the eyes; With gladness blends dismay.

I snatched the light out of his hand, and flashed it all about me wildly.

"Ain't three of you enough to take care of any mistakes?" At which Doc Coffin's right hand flashed downward.

See all along the shore, as you look up the bay towards the Lake House, how the millions of fireflies flash their tiny torches, upward and downward, this way and that, mingling and crossing, and gyrating and whirlinga troubled and billowy sea of millions upon millions of glowing and sparkling gems.

The light flashed aloft; and there, so far above the Queen Mary as to be little more than a tiny speck, hovered a giant Zeppelin; and even as they looked, the airship came lower.

" "You are treating me like a child," she protested, and her eyes flashed passionately.

The flames spread rapidly, and flashed up high into the air, and soon there was nothing left of the poor wigwam but a few smoking and blackened sticks lying on the ground.

Homer, both in the "Ilias" and "Odusseia," gives his readers frequent glimpses into the halls of Olympus; for messengers are continually flashing to and fro, like meteors, between the throne of Zeus and the earth.

Even the creek was full of life, for there could be seen the movements of creeping things upon its bottom, while through the clear waters trout and minnow flashed brilliantly.

Then her mind flashed backward through a surmise which embraced the whole series of events.

It had neither doors nor windows, and the rain used to beat through the room, while the eaves were inhabited by countless swarms of bats, who, in the evening flashed backwards and forwards in ghostly rapid flight, and were a most intolerable nuisance.

Fox-hunting on Minto Crags must indeed have been a picturesque sight, and there was a special rock overhanging a precipice upon which she loved to sit and watch the wild chase, men and horses appearing and disappearing with flashing rapidity among the woods and ravines beneath.

She thought that under the jest there was a queer note; when his eyes flashed briefly toward her she tried to read their message.

And the eyes of the Southern lad flashed darkly.

A tall, rather masculine-looking creature, with a dark, handsome face, bold black eyes just now flashing fiercely, rage in every feature.

The pinewood fire flashes fitfully on a masterpiece of Vereschágin's, which stands on an easel by the hearth, and the massive gold "ikon," [A] encrusted with diamonds and precious stones, in the corner.