Flickered

Examples

• His face flickered with sardonic comprehension. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He looked at her again, and a fire flickered up in his eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And his long, pale, rather elegant face flickered as he made his sarcastic remarks. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The candle-flames flickered in the frozen air, in the intense silence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The women went off to their cabins, and Tom sat alone, by the smouldering fire, that flickered up redly in his face. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• An ironical smile flickered on Gudrun's face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The rushlight flickered in the basin. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The match flickered in the twilight, and they were all smoking peacefully by the water-side. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Renewed hope followed renewed effort: it shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, it faded, flickered: not a line, not a word reached me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His face flickered with bored irritation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• My sinking courage flickered up in me again, and kept my eyes fixed on his window, as I stole my way back, step by step, past the wall of the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She waited while the spark flickered under his curved palm; then he held out the cigarettes to her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Peering in, we could see that the only light in the room came from a dull blue flame which flickered from a small brass tripod in the centre. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It flickered, and Birkin went bending over the well of light. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Palestra was quick and silent as a water rat, Gerald wavered and flickered, a white natural shadow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Edited by Francine