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  • My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.
  • Danlo looked through the flickering red fires up at the circle of skulls. The Broken God
  • In this manner, under the dim-flickering light of an "oilie cruizie," in a straggling village in Perthshire, did I learn first of Blue Beard and Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
  • Meditation taught me not to overidentify with my flickering, rapidly altering emotional states, but rather view them as visiting wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
  • The flickering firelight revealed an appearance that was most disturbing.
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  • Small businesses are flickering into life. Times, Sunday Times
  • The flyingfish are flickering in the orange glow, and one flies close and winks at me before diving below the surface again. First Snakes, Now This? « Looking for Roots
  • She began to crawl forward again, her eyes continually flickering between the tracks on either side of her.
  • The candles were flickering in their sockets. North and South
  • I held in my hand a single black candle, it's flame flickering as my body disturbed the air around it.
  • The mood in Haiti today reminds one of the wanly flickering orange glow of the kerosine lamps that Haiti's market women - known as ti machann - use to illuminate their wares as they work late into the night. Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer
  • That was six years ago and now, her hands flickering across the melamine table top seeking the wood beneath, she says her most recent scans have given her the all-clear.
  • She joined in a conversation, her eyes flickering in the direction of the room doors.
  • Trees, rocks and soil had all been uprooted, and flickering tongues of flame dotted the landscape.
  • But then he spotted the flickering light of a candle coming from a room near the rear of the building. Times, Sunday Times
  • The clouds of gas swirled and mixed as their electrons changed polarity, flickering colors that moved with the solar winds of a million suns.
  • She was obviously enjoying the antics of the jugglers and tumblers illuminated by the flickering light.
  • Rhea's eyes fluttered for a moment before flickering open.
  • Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
  • Some are just attractive domes with openings to hold the lamp so that only the slight flickering can be seen while the dome protects it from wind.
  • It was the worst mass murder in Juárez in years, Cardona says as I gaze at the flickering votives, the bloodstains and bullet holes framing the picture of Christ. The Fall of Mexico
  • She was reading by the flickering light of the candle.
  • The bikes that majestically stood on either side of the stage with their sidelights flickering welcomed the gathering.
  • The candle flickered [ was flickering ].
  • Even in the foregrounds, the brushstrokes are a web of quick flickering dabs, layered, but not blended or otherwise heavily worked.
  • A look of relief briefly lit his sallow features, like the flickering of a faulty fluorescent bulb, then immediately went out. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • Henderson was smiling gently, but since her eyes were on the flickering candles, I couldn't tell if she sensed the strained silence.
  • I went into the darkened drawing room and sat watching the flickering of light on the TV screen.
  • She looked over toward the living room and saw the soft flickering light from a burning fire.
  • His endorsement fanned my flickering fantasy into a burning desire. Christianity Today
  • As this incantation proceeds, small flickering tongues of fire start forth on every side; they soon rise higher and higher, roaring and crackling until, as Wotan disappears, they form a fiery barrier all around the sleeping Walkyrie: -- Stories of the Wagner Opera
  • Anna half imagined that the stars were flickering: since there was no atmosphere to refract their light, they were being distorted by cloaking fields. Star Trek The Next Generation®
  • The first track further lulls you a false sense of security; a lovely, candle-flickering tune, drums brushed around a breathy sax and gently chiming vibes.
  • Danlo looked through the flickering red fires up at the circle of skulls. The Broken God
  • I think the bulb over the sink is going to go. It's been flickering all evening.
  • When I opened the door, I saw that the light was cast by the flickering flames of some two dozen small butter lamps burning at the base of a painting of a multiarmed Krishna. Hi-Ya!
  • The term 'illuminated' refers to handpainted manuscripts flecked with gold, which created a flickering effect when viewed by candlelight. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
  • The previously staid faces of the man-height computer consoles were a frenzy of flickering lights and wildly oscillating needles. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • The flickering shadows and darting phantasms on the walls reminded me exactly of some sights I once encountered in a cave in Spain, filled with art.
  • The Christmas tree is decorated with coloured lights because they remind us of the stars flickering through the branches on a cold starry winter night.
  • The figures of the guitarists are immobile, and so inscrutable are their veiled faces that almost the only stage movement is their hands flickering across the fretboards.
  • The equally glamorous Einstein's Cross, composed of five fiery white balls in a deep blue field haloed by a flickering ring of red, is closely based on a Hubble telescope image taken off the Internet.
  • The star was indeed flickering, pulsating with a dying glow.
  • Ornate sconces lined the walls, bringing the hall into flickering illumination.
  • The argil lamps, suspended below these images, shed a flickering light. Tentation de saint Antoine. English
  • WOULD you continue to drive your car knowing that you had a slow puncture or a flickering warning light on the dashboard? Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a magnificent display of the phenomenon, and I feel certain that my attention was first attracted to it by the crackling sound which appeared to accompany the motion of the pale flames as they streamed across the sky; indeed, _crackling_, is not the word that properly describes the sound I heard, which was precisely that made by the _flickering_ of blazing fire; and as I have often since read and heard discussions upon the question whether the motion of the aurora is or is not accompanied by an audible sound, I can only say that on this occasion it was the sound that first induced me to observe the sheets of white light that were leaping up the sky. Records of a Girlhood
  • In winter, when the sun is low in the sky, it goes down behind the turbines and causes flickering shadows coming into the room. Times, Sunday Times
  • The notion often prevails that if there be in the heart this divine witness of God's Spirit, it must needs be perfect, clearly indicating its origin by an exemption from all that besets ordinary human feelings, that it must be a strong, uniform, never flickering, never darkening, and perpetual light, a kind of vestal fire burning always on the altar of the heart! Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
  • Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies. THE KANAKA SURF
  • Their black satin pants and jackets gleam in the sun, starbursts of acrylic colour flickering down each arm.
  • He opened his eyes and it wasn't dull flickering red at all, but grey-a cold sourceless silver, grey like snail trails on the lilac leaves-a springtime thing, that. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
  • The scherzo is the flickering of mad watery lights, a fantastic whipping dance, a sudden sinister conclusion. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
  • These last few have been days to hold on to: bright sunshine through fat-bottomed clouds; ringlet butterflies flickering over flowering grasses; yellow-and-black-banded cinnabar moth caterpillars twitching as they spun threads to tie themselves to ragwort; bright pink lip-gloss heads of pyramidal orchids – these things once observed becoming dearly held. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
  • Nick's eyes burned, small flames flickering within his pupils.
  • Dark silhouettes lurched crazily in the flickering light, while the pub doors creaked and slammed threatrically in the wind.
  • In old times when the houses were draftier they was troublesome about flickering, candles was; but land! think how comfortable we live now to what we used to! A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
  • The decor is unremarkable - flickering oil lights and faux candelabra, prints of Paris, and nicely set tables with proper linen and big generous balloon glasses.
  • Looking out the belly hatch of the Halifax that night, Jacques and Toto had spotted lights flickering on the ground from the resistance fighters waiting near Clermont-Ferrand to receive them. Wild Bill Donovan
  • The only light were coming from a couple of torches; the flames dancing and flickering in the night.
  • A flame, like a candle flame but burning with a clear magnesium-white luminance, was flickering on the tip of her forefinger. AMERICAN GODS
  • The viewer enters a mirrored cabinet, at the heart of which a chandelier hangs, its lights pulsing and flickering. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sunlight performing magic, shimmering, flickering through the tree tops, and the smell, the warm autumny scent, making you feel heady. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • The flickering insect halo began to drift slowly away, keeping a constant six feet above the earth.
  • What's the key to the intimacy and the poetry of flickering emotions in her work? Times, Sunday Times
  • She rocked the baby gently, gazing in abstraction at the flickering fire.
  • In Treasures from the Archives you can blow the dust off restored and remastered golden oldies that rarely see the flickering light of day. Times, Sunday Times
  • The body was clothed in a purple gown and a silver pectoral cross winked in the flickering candle light.
  • Far into the distance curved the line of flickering gas-lamps, and outside a little walled-in house stood a solitary hansom, the driver asleep inside.
  • White mustache took a pair of shoe of multicoloured in grandfather hand, sending golden light flickeringly.
  • But still i had a faint flickering of happiness because we had decided to take the DAY flota back to Coch Sat. morning. no more night flotas for me for a while, so i was thinking how wonderful it would be to get back to coch sat. night and have sunday to unpack, do laundry, and relax for a day before classes started again. Adventures in Bolivia
  • Candles, both large and small, tapered, pillar or votives all generate a warm, inviting, flickering light to the room.
  • Yes, a week at most," says he, and pointed out how he had sited his left and right attacks opposite the strongest points in the rebel defences, which our gunners were pounding with red-hot shot, keeping the pandy fire-parties busy quelling the flames which you could see here and there behind the walls, flickering crazily through the heat-haze. Fiancée
  • I'd freewheeled down the hill, trees flashing past, the late summer sunlight flickering above my head.
  • I think the bulb over the sink is going to go. It's been flickering all evening.
  • You leave the cliffs and promontories and blue sea gulfs behind, and corkscrew inland, past the roadside shrines with their solitary icons and flickering candles.
  • The flickering cine emphasised the tangibility of alighting on this terrible horror. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mass accreted onto the white dwarf can result in flickering and quasi-periodic oscillations. Unprecedented Eruption Catches Astronomers By Surprise | Universe Today
  • At night, lanterns show you the way and the tents are lit with low, flickering candles. Times, Sunday Times
  • Super 8 and old cine film can convert even the most haggard or non-descript landscapes into flickering beauties. Times, Sunday Times
  • The night cast its silent shadow over the clearing at the edge of the woods, storm clouds parting slowly, revealing the pale, flickering light of the half-moon that shone overhead.
  • The viewer enters a mirrored cabinet, at the heart of which a chandelier hangs, its lights pulsing and flickering. Times, Sunday Times
  • The young man held up his hands to show he was unarmed, but they continued towards him, the daggers gleaming in the flickering light.
  • The viewer enters a mirrored cabinet, at the heart of which a chandelier hangs, its lights pulsing and flickering. Times, Sunday Times
  • WOULD you continue to drive your car knowing that you had a slow puncture or a flickering warning light on the dashboard? Times, Sunday Times
  • It was the worst mass murder in Juárez in years, Cardona says as I gaze at the flickering votives, the bloodstains and bullet holes framing the picture of Christ. The Fall of Mexico
  • She watched the sun flickering down through the warm-trunked redwoods. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
  • It was an almost sleepless night for him, watching the cold flickering of the stars beyond the screen of thin leaves, often starting at plops and splashing sounds from the stream.
  • When you see it with your naked eye, it may be because of sunlight flickering between the spokes of a rotating bike wheel, creating a kind of strobe effect. TIPSHEET
  • If we as a nation had the strength to detach from the glittering, flickering baubles beamed into our cerebral cortexes and mute the bleating klaxons, we'd realize that the "news" spouted from many a sneering, slanted mouth is pure carnival barking, and we'd see what America has allowed itself to become. Steven Weber: Step Outside
  • Their vehemence left him with a hunted air, his eyes flickering here and there, looking for escape.
  • Dancing shadows cast by the flickering firelight struck the newly risen stone walls and foundation of the main lodge looming above the fire pit, sheltering the flames from steady northerlies. Genellan- Planetfall
  • Instead, we wander down to the conservatory, where a lone table is laid, its pink candles flickering.
  • Small businesses are flickering into life. Times, Sunday Times
  • In those usually confident and bright eyes, there was a flickering dart of fear and fury.
  • They had scarcely hidden themselves, and removed all signs of their presence to Jack's satisfaction, when the storm which had been threatening for so long a time burst with terrific fury, the air being continuously a-glimmer with the flickering and quivering of lightning flashes, while the very ground beneath their feet seemed to quake with the deafening, soul-shaking crash of the thunder; and the rain, breaking loose at last, descended in such cataractal volumes that, even partially sheltered as most of them were by the dense foliage of the scrub amid which they cowered, every soul of them was wet to the skin in less than The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
  • The boy is sitting above him, the tip of his cigarette flickering amber in the half-light, exhaling softly in clouds of white smoke(sentence dictionary), a strangely comforting presence.
  • They sat round a huge log fire, the flickering flames casting long shadows against the far wall.
  • The lights were out and the only light showing was that of a small flickering torchlight.
  • Another important part of weaving the past into my story was walking the streets of Brooklyn Heights, especially on a snowy night when it's easier to imagine carriages clattering down the streets and gaslight flickering behind the windows of the brownstones. Patricia O'Brien discusses her novel Harriet & Isabella, about the trial of Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • So placed, the light sculpture's flickering luminosity seems to both recall an earlier contemplation and act as new illumination to a newer generation.
  • As soon as Lana flipped on the switch, letting the weak light of a flickering lamp in the corner just barely illuminate the small room, Olivia let out a small gasp of shock.
  • There were no bright lights flickering on and off giving you a headache.
  • A scarlet glow became visible in the distance, flickering through the ethereal trees surrounding the two.
  • Cheever's flickering back and forth between a yearning for light and the destructive lure (alcoholic, carnal) of darkness is rendered on a scale at once "ingrown" and vast. Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
  • At very low membrane tension, small fusion pores can be trapped in a flickering metastable state.
  • I can only make out a shadow since everything is dark, and the room is splashed with alternating flickering colors.
  • Glad he was when, at length, after this wild race, he beheld the holy man who had led it standing in front of a cavern, with a large torch in his hand, composed of a piece of wood dipped in bitumen, which cast a broad and flickering light, and emitted a strong sulphureous smell. The Talisman
  • The flickering insect halo began to drift slowly away, keeping a constant six feet above the earth.
  • Moments later the flight control system came online, my HUD flickering into life.
  • Gordon drove with his mind pleasantly vacant, lulled by the monotonous miles of road flickering through his vision, the shifting forms of distant peaks, virid vistas, nearby trees and bushes, all saturated in the slumberous, yellow, summer heat. Mountain Blood A Novel
  • Lightning sends flickering flashes through the Hall, and the thunder reaches us as a rumble of kettledrums.
  • All along Dale Avenue, you could see the flickering green-and-white lights of televisions in curtained windows, and the quiet cars lining the streets, slowly freezing in the chill night air. One Last Thought On Intellectual Honesty: The Fallacy Of Infinite Proof
  • At her beckon he left them and joined her outside in the flickering spill of candle light. A Time of War
  • His garrulity is the garrulity of old age in its last flickering moments. The Great Taboo
  • We now know that the entire series of Lost takes place in the flickering moments between Jack Shephard opening his eye in the bamboo forest and closing it in the last scene of the finale, when all of the passengers are suspended in the bardo, the intermediate state between life and death. Michael Carmichael: The End of Lost : Death, Dharma & the Dao
  • Although the vapor trails of dub still colour the essence of much of this new material, 'Liumin' is an altogether more 'destroyed' experience than its predecessor, opening with the washed-out, beatless sequence of 'In Echospace', a track that somehow manages to harness the disorientating experience of being a stranger in a strange land, with only the flickering glow of neon lights for company. Boomkat: Just arrived
  • But at night when we're on the sofa he sees the inscrutable stories flickering on the box in the corner.
  • What's the key to the intimacy and the poetry of flickering emotions in her work? Times, Sunday Times
  • They faced each other, the flickering light casting eerie shadows and throwing their faces into sharp relief.
  • My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.
  • You leave the cliffs and promontories and blue sea gulfs behind, and corkscrew inland, past the roadside shrines with their solitary icons and flickering candles.
  • The two noticed that Kari was shifting her body, and her eyelids were flickering.
  • Lightning from the storm had cut off the electricity and the cell was illuminated by a bronze dish filled with flickering candles.
  • A blue and flickering gleam of light, dim, yet persistent, seemed to enhalo a woman's face; and as Stern's weary eyes opened under languid lids, closed, then opened again, the wounded engineer smiled in his weakness. Darkness and Dawn
  • Their smiling faces appeared everywhere; in newspapers and magazines, in flickering newsreels, on the lids of chocolate boxes and biscuit tins.
  • What follows is a rich, wavy drone of multi-tracked tones, which echo into the distance until the crackle of a fire takes centre stage, with soft bells flickering in the background.
  • The campfire, linen tablecloth and flickering lamps pile on the magic. Times, Sunday Times
  • His belief in a higher power has nudged him from deepest darkness to flickering light. Times, Sunday Times
  • When the trainer shouts, the group runs up the stadium's terraces, sending long shadows flickering over the steps.
  • No one seemed to be about, so with only the flickering fire to show him the way, he went to the closet and removed his hat, his overcoat, and those strange arctics which had come into his life when he decided to take this simple little trip to Tahoe. Murder Canyon
  • Flickering light on moving leaves was rendered with deft touches of white, while a palette knife created rich textural effects.
  • Flickering to life, a small light shone from the pylon's centre as the Head Lorekeeper heard a familiar voice in her mind.
  • As he walked into the flickering darkness, the sound hit him like a sweat-soaked brick.
  • The word morning becomes his mantra; that one word helps crowd out the more desperate, flickering thoughts of how easy it would be to just close his eyes and let go. OVERBOARD !
  • The valves and gear shafts in his mind spun faster and faster, spark plugs flickering with anticipation.
  • A gust of wind blew the flickering candle out.
  • Small businesses are flickering into life. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were seated in a square surrounding the flickering embers, and every now and then somebody would poke the fire to keep it burning.
  • Will watched the diamonds on the tiara glimmer in the flickering light.
  • Furthermore, while maiden Lavinia stands beside her father feeding the altars with holy fuel, she was seen, oh, horror! to catch fire in her long tresses, and burn with flickering flame in all her array, her queenly hair lit up, lit up her jewelled circlet; till, enwreathed in smoke and lurid light, she scattered fire over all the palace. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • He struck a match, and held it at arm's length flickering and guttering, trying to illuminate the space he was in. THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
  • The images show glowing aurorae flickering at each pole - Saturn's equivalent of the Northern and Southern Lights on Earth.
  • I saw a flickering light and smelt the burning smoke of candle.
  • The story is largely seen in flickering circles of light and specific scenes are tinted using intense bubblegum pink and steely blue.
  • Teresa began to thrash around in Alistairs arms, her eyelids still flickering.
  • Slowly his eyes fluttered open, but the flickering torchlight that lit his cell seemed unnaturally bright.
  • A gust of wind blew the flickering candle out.
  • There are no sounds except the flickering of the flame and the hiss of some burning wood that has not thoroughly dried.
  • The ceiling wavered and shimmered, flickering in and out of clarity.
  • The curtain raises on the opening scene with the cast gathered front of stage to a backdrop of trees, a small camp fire Flickering to one side.
  • The walls were papered in a pleasing floral print, a few comfortable chairs and a matching footstool were scattered about, and in the fireplace, a happy little blaze was flickering away.
  • One of the last things that registered on Dave's perception as his vision faded was a flickering black nimbus of energy limning the creature's form.
  • As they chattered a small striped viper squirmed on top of the map with tongue flickering from open fangs.
  • As Koloth tapped at a control panel on his desk, the lights came up, losing their flickering, flamelike quality. Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
  • He wasn't so foolish as to think that fortune smiled on him every day; what if his future was as bright as a flickering street lamp?
  • He stared up at the blanket of stars glittering in the inky sky, his conflicting emotions flickering on his face. ICE AGE
  • She found a flint and steel on a narrow shelf above the fireplace and soon had flickering flames to chase the gloom and chill from the room. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • An introductory slide show, which has the flickering feel of an antique Kinetoscope, welcomes the visitor with an authoritative museological voice, intoning that the place "is an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic. NYT > Home Page
  • But then he spotted the flickering light of a candle coming from a room near the rear of the building. Times, Sunday Times
  • He paid, walked down a dark corridor and pushed through a curtain into a deep pool of sound and flickering light.
  • She'd seen her flickering black-and-white picture on some late-night movie channel. COLDHEART CANYON
  • On the far side, lit by flickering reed torches, we were confronted by a large and completely silent crowd.
  • In the plaster couple the painterliness of facture is accentuated by applied highlights of color, while in the bronzes the verdant patina emphasizes the work's mass over its flickering surface.
  • Kumma was poking at the fire with a stick, his eyes flickering the blaze.
  • There was a lamp on the table that threw weird, flickering shadows at the roughly revetted walls. DARE CALL IT TREASON
  • The bard played a soft melody on his gittern as Lord Kemoc seemed to doze, the golden firelight flickering over both of them. Oathblood
  • Up the fruit and booze content, add such goodies as stout, carrots and suet, and you have the Christmas pudding – the dense, almost-black ball of rich fruitiness which is carried to the Christmas table after the turkey dinner, and which, to the cheers of assembled friends and family is doused in hot brandy and set ablaze, flickering with a blue, almost transparent flame. Guest post: A British Christmas dinner! « Were rabbits
  • What inadequate lighting exists is unreliable, flickering off at the most inopportune moments.
  • His face, shadowed by the flickering torches, was harsh and strong while he exchanged words with the Majdi around him.
  • Many of the lights had fused or were flickering. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Shadow is at his desk, researching a situation, girasol ring flickering as usual. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Blackmail Ring - Maxwell Grant
  • In the plaster couple the painterliness of facture is accentuated by applied highlights of color, while in the bronzes the verdant patina emphasizes the work's mass over its flickering surface.
  • At the broad landing at the top the altar was about waist-high, and now for the first time they made out that at the back there was a big sitting figure, whose breast seemed to be covered with a kind of rayed shield; but everything was indistinct in the flickering light, and the figure was absolutely clothed in dust. Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig
  • The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black, absurd cosmos.
  • There was a sudden shaking and rumble of cannons and battering-rams and I saw flames flickering.
  • Lit by the flickering fire, the lodge is a dome shaped structure made of a skeleton of fastened willow branches covered by thick tarps. Into a realm of spirits: a Native American sweat lodge ceremony
  • This was just after Mr Zachariah Lathrope, the American passenger, had so well illustrated Virgil's line, _facilus descensus averni_, in coming down the stairway by the run, on the top of a "comber;" and, although the steward had lit one of the swinging lamps over the cuddy table, it only served, with its feeble flickering light, to "make the darkness visible" and render the scene more sombre. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land
  • The stars twinkled back, winking and flickering.
  • My flickering flashlight swung across a bank of overhead stowage.
  • She was grateful that she had found some candles, because the power had been flickering off and on.
  • The flickering hallucinatory drowsiness paradoxically allowed him to see more, see clearly, unhampered by the shadows cast by work, by Anna. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • First off, we already have flickering lights in offices, they're called flourescent lights. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Lightning from the storm had cut off the electricity and the cell was illuminated by a bronze dish filled with flickering candles.
  • With such simple means the earliest Christian artists evoked the light of the world, flickering in the surrounding darkness, casting a living, dancing shadow on the walls of a Roman tenement or catacomb.
  • But as children get older, the energy-sapping effect of the flickering screen insulates them in their own private world, leaving them only just enough energy to channel-hop or open that multipack of crisps.
  • The shells of the awabi, or 'sea-ear,' which reaches a surprising size in these western waters, are converted by skilful polishing and cutting into wonderful dishes, bowls, cups, and other articles, over whose surfaces the play of iridescence is like a flickering of fire of a hundred colours. º18 Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
  • Beams of sunlight slanted down, flickering whenever a ripple broke the calm of the surface.
  • Jake reached out a hand and stroked her cheek gently, his eyes never leaving her face, flickering in the gentle firelight.
  • Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky.
  • The charmingly titled cagómetro - Barcelona's very own crapping-yourself-ometre, measuring Catalan fear by the crapahertz - was flickering into life. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
  • His head rolled a little to the side, and he found himself staring into the roaring fire, captivated by the flickering golden tongues of flame.
  • The horizon lights up all around you, flickering and pulsating, white, blue and green hues of light, constantly moving up and down, changing shape.
  • He struck a match, and held it at arm's length flickering and guttering, trying to illuminate the space he was in. THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
  • The candles were flickering in their sockets. North and South
  • We know there was a gush of wind and tongues of flame flickering over the heads of the apostles.
  • In winter, when the sun is low in the sky, it goes down behind the turbines and causes flickering shadows coming into the room. Times, Sunday Times
  • The flickering firelight lit them all in its tumbling glow.
  • The uneven depth of colour, as in all these works, adds a flickering dimension to the work, form flexing in and out of light like a half-grasped memory.

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