Flickering

Examples

• There were odd little fires playing in his eyes, he seemed to have turned into something wicked and flickering, mocking, suggestive, quite impossible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• War rages yet with the audacious Boythorn, though at uncertain intervals, and now hotly, and now coolly, flickering like an unsteady fire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The candles were flickering in their sockets. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His eyes were flickering with mixed lights, wanting something of her, yet not wanting it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The flickering fires in his eyes concentrated as he looked into her eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Halliday hung motionless, an almost imbecile smile flickering palely on his face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A lamp casts the broad shadow of the sleeping warrior flickering on the wall--the sword and shield of Troy glitter in its light. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yet again, they were flickering their way to the centre, finding the path blindly, enviously. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Had I told you to go and quench eternally our last flickering chance of happiness here you could have done no worse. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She looked, and saw a flickering firelight proceeding from the open side of a hovel a little way before them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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