The flicker of the days and nights quickened.

During months and months, just to punish this great crime, there was no bright sunshine; but often in the long night, while the chief was wearying for summer to come again, he'd be tantalised by these little bits of the broken day that flickered in the sky.

So, for a space, they fronted each other, speaking not, while eye met eye unswervingthe menacing blue and the challenging black, and, through the open casement near by came a ruddy glow that flickered on arras-hung wall and rugged roof-beam.

It resolved into a glowing hand, transparent, with a lambent, greenish flame flickering over it.

On deck the crew was at work about the long boat, and over the port rail, perhaps a quarter of a mile away, I could see our house, with a light burning in the window, flickering through the waving branches of the elms that half hid it.

In the meantime, the lightning flickered about the lake and between the flashes all was nearly dark.

A weary smile flickered across her face as she sat there on the ground like a bronze figure of patience and long-suffering.

The bright black eyes of the fat man glittered and flickered from face to face.

I could not follow Dawson's movements; his hands flickered like those of a conjurer, there came a sharp click, and the handcuffs were upon my wrists!

McFluke's eyes flickered at the question.

" A slight smile, sad and deprecating, flickered for an instant over his lips.

shouted the Boy, and in truth each wick lay languishing in a little island of grease, now flaring bravely, now flickering to dusk.

But Marcia's strained lips flickered with the vestige of a smile.

the torch is flickering into ashes!

So picture after picture flickered before his mind's eye, as though his brain had built up a five-reel mental movie from all sorts of memory film; a hundred feet of this, two hundred of that, a thousand here, there just a flash.

This Beltane saw 'twixt hood and wimple, by aid of the torch that flickered against the wall; and she, conscious of his look, stood with white hands demurely crossed upon her rounded bosom, with eyes abased and scarlet lips apart, as one who waitsexpectant.

He was about to start back to the town when he thought he saw a light flickering among the trees and heard the snapping of twigs, the sound of feet, and rustling of leaves.

"Tuckered out," he thought as he looked into her face across which light and shadow flickered as flame and smoke in the camp-fire came and went fitfully, twisted by the evening breeze.

The light flickered along the road toward them.

" A lantern flickered above the storm-apron and then swung in the break of the bridge-rail at the ladder-head, and I saw Harris moving something which hung limply as he dragged it behind the canvas.

Helma stood watching until their little forms had flickered out of sight among tree-shadows.

By the uncertain light of a candle lamp that flickered inside the cab, a Manchu shepherd that saw the vehicle pass, where he watched his sheep on the plain in fear of the wolves, for the first time saw evening dress.

A small fire flickered beneath a quaintly devised mantel, though it was summerfor the mists crept up the hill at night and chilled the souls of the books.

But with the cry on his lips, the glance of Cartwright flickered past Sinclair.

All night long the flash of fire flickered round the position, and six times the Russian officers led up their troops to the attack.