There was the vaguest something in her smiling gaze, the merestflicker of an eyelash, which convicted him of impertinence.
A flicker of light high up in the sky-line seemed to move.
But he caught sight of her dress, and slowly sauntered up and down the platform until he passed near enough to her to identify her in the faint flicker of the gas.
A light wind breathed through the open window, cool and fragrant, and made the shaded candles flicker upon the table.
She was capable of a quick fervour, though the fervour might as quickly flicker out.
The shrewd, small eyes answered the scrutiny impassively, and without as much as the flicker of an eyelid.
Instead, there was a flicker indicating injured pride, followed by the sweetest, tenderest smile that he ever had seen on her face.
There's the foggy gleam From the Horse and Groom, Where topers dream In front of their liquor, And candles flicker As pipes allume .
Vodka and kvas, and bitter mountain wines We have not drunk, nor snatched at bursting grapes To pelt slim girls among Sicilian vines Who'd flicker through the leaves, elusive shapes.
The hard lines she had discovered in his face were softened, the frown relaxed, and at his lips there came the flicker of a smile.
It was one of those tragic moments when all the future hangs on the flicker of an eyelash.
But I'll tell you confidential, I wouldn't like Flicker to 'sociate with none but the best class o' boys.
An' you'd oughter see how grand him an' Flicker gets along!
Ironically, with a smile of defiance, the Roman Caesar gazed at the opposite corner of the cell, where in the feeble flicker of the lamp-light hung the great black crucifix.
They found themselves in the vestibule of a little vacant temple, its ancient and massive columns ill-lighted by the flicker of a lamp.
His voice roused the sufferer to one last flicker of spirit.
Only when Ashe turned the conversation to the subject of the museum did a flicker of animation stir him.
A flicker of passion distorted Dominey's face, flamed for a moment in his tone.
The group of students and teachers, standing in the storm, could now see the bright flicker of flames in the boiler-room.
Through the clouds of vapor, illuminated by gasjets here and there left burning all night in case of accident, he could see the flicker of flames.
She would have perceived this earlier had he not from time to time revived the hope when it was about to flicker out.
In spite of the difficulty of the minute he was conscious of a flicker of amusement.
In suitable localities throughout the United States and the southern parts of Canada, the Flicker is a very common bird, and few species are more generally known.
Then appears the Woodpecker in great variety, the Flickerusually arriving first.
The Flickerbegins to build its nest about two weeks after the bird arrives from the south.
With this he turned off the remaining light, leaving only the flicker of the firelight behind, shot back the bolt and strode from the room.
While I was musing over this strange way of feeding, the bird left, and a female flicker appeared.
Anything more ludicrous than those two birds standing face to face and performing such antics it is hard to imagine; no one but a flicker could be at the same time so serious and so absurd.
One day when I was watching the stump, a male flicker came with food, and alighted at the lower door, upon which a young bird put his bill out and was fed in the murderous-looking fashion of the flickers.
Instantly a head came out, much bigger than the first one, uttered the familiar flicker baby-cry, and was fed.
Now they have all flown, and only the laugh of the flicker and the call of the young ones all around remain to tell that woodpecker babies grew up in the tree.
Not a flicker of the eyelid betrayed the Arizonian's emotion, but for an instant the world swam dizzily before him.
This may have been the reason he did not catch the quick look that passed without the slightest flicker of the eyelids between Major Mackenzie and the young woman in Section 3.
In the piercing eyes that met his own steadily he perceived the flicker of a smile.
The flickerof a smile shone in the dark eyes, but the gravity of her features remained otherwise unchanged.
Such disease is the first flicker of the aurora of a rising health.
He continued to stare while he heard Luhra's voice, high with hope, and he saw a change of expression flicker across the black face, though Horab shouted a vehement reply.
But--" He waited deliberately after Luhra had spoken, and he saw plainly the flickerof fear in the ugly face.
Have you never, Francoise, felt in your heart some little flicker of the love which glows in mine?
But the old Huguenot had opened his eyes, and with a last flicker of strength he pushed away the gray-hooded figure which bent over him.
His wild outburst over the unhappy Fontanges had represented the last flicker of his passions.
