The uncertain flicker of a single candle playing miserably between the two was the last thing in the world to appeal to him.

They are very merry, frolicsome birds, with all sorts of tricks and mannerseven Dodo's Flickers are no jollier members of the Laughing Family.

The child, however, recovered, and her recovery was due, I think, to that chance thought of Mr. Winterbotham's about the chloroform, for I used it whenever the first sign of a fit of coughing appeared, and so warded off the convulsive attack and the profound exhaustion that followed, in which a mere flicker of breath at the top of the throat was the only sign of life, and sometimes even that disappeared, and I thought her gone.

The flicker in the eyes of Anthony was the rapier which swerves from the ax and then leaps at the heart.