Through a tangle of bushes she saw the flicker of a small fire; she smelled coffee; she drank half of the hot cup which he brought to her.

There was something of boyish alertness in her movements that sent a flicker of approval into the man's eyes.

"My hope was that I might arrive before Manuel"he caught a flicker of wrath in the eyes of the don at the name and smiled inwardly"but the moonlight played tricks upon the trail, and my caballo tripped upon a willow-branch and fell upon his head so that his neck was twisted.

The three nearest candles went out; but the further ones gave only a short flicker.

Frowenfeld, as we have already said, had closed his shop, and was sitting in the room behind it with one arm on his table and the other on his celestial globe, watching the flicker of his small fire and musing upon the unusual experiences of the evening.

" "Have you never, Francoise, felt in your heart some little flicker of the love which glows in mine?"

Telbin was a poet, and he has handed on much of his talent to his son, who is alive now, and painted most of our Faust scenery at the Lyceumhe and dear Mr. Hawes Craven, who so loved his garden and could paint the flicker of golden sunshine for the stage better than any one.

I had walked, according to my reckoning, just upon five hundred metres through the gorge, when on ahead I perceived the flicker of lights which appeared to be moving to and fro.

"And shall I see the niece?" The financier had his back turned, and so he permitted the flicker of a smile to come over his mouth as he answered: "It might be; but we have dismissed the subject of the niece.

We cried to him to swerve, and the sound of our voices brought up that last flicker of hope which waits till the end in every man.

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

His wild outburst over the unhappy Fontanges had represented the last flicker of his passions.

Quicker, and ever quicker, ran the flicker of day and night; and, suddenly it seemed, I was aware that the flicker had died out, and, instead, there reigned a comparatively steady light, which was shed upon all the world, from an eternal river of flame that swung up and down, North and South, in stupendous, mighty swings.

There was no light save the flicker of the fire, which played on Kate's smile and the rich gold of her hair, or caught out of the dark one of the lean, hard faces which circled her.

So that her face showed the faintest flicker of dismay when Rowcliffe suddenly began to talk about her.

" "Rome does!" murmured Pertinax, his eyes and lips suggesting a mere flicker of a smile.

His lips formed a name but did not breathe it, for at that moment the swaying of the boat had thrown a flicker of light on the face and Mr. Heatherbloom drew back, the edge of his ardor dulled.

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.

So it was, then, that Aronsen cherished a flicker of hope, and thought he could afford to stand on his dignity with any who offered to buy up Storborg.

The canister was no longer hers, neither the tea-pot, nor even the battered old pewter spoon with which she tapped the bottom of the tin to dislodge the last flicker of tea-leaf dust.

Yet, like one in a dream, who knows it is but a dream, and scarce dares breathe lest he should break the mirrored ecstasy, he would not carry the lamp to the bedside: no act of his should disperse the airy flicker of the lovely doubt, not a movement, not a nearer glance, until stern necessity should command.

The partners exchanged the merest flicker of a look, which Wayne, as far as he thought of it at all, supposed to be a recognition on their part of his carefulness in thinking of such a detail.