Flashes

Examples

• The night was so dark that the men could not distinguish one from another except by the light of the flashes of their muskets. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The lightning is made his swift messenger, and thought flashes in submarine depths around the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I saw flashes of the rifles and heard the reports. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Do you notice how it darts different coloured fires--it flashes really superbly--' They remained in silence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then it flashes upon him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Almost immediately flashes of light broke from these strange objects. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I watched the flashes on San Gabriele. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the M?le, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• If the companion moves his head in order to avoid the reflected beam, his tormentor moves or inclines the mirror and flashes the beam back to his victim's face. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There was a roar of musketry, and then answering flashes and roars from temple and rampart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The greatness of Greece comes out only in the art and literature and thought; not in the political and social history--except in dim flashes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was fighting in the mountains and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Do you mean to tell me, then, Sophronia--' Thus he begins after a long silence, when Sophronia flashes fiercely, and turns upon him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He had the dull man's unexpected flashes of astuteness, and Lily could not help joining in the laugh with which he had pounced on the truth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The hollow night was rocking and crashing with noise, and from the sluice came sharp, regular flashes of sound. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Faster than ever river ran towards the sea, it flashes, darkens, and rolls away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Sometimes, by flashes, he felt there was little reason in the demands his party made on Government. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But these flashes of amusement were but brief reactions from the long disgust of her days. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Editor: Rochelle