And as suddenly as she had risen from her seat so she turned on Robinson with a quick movement and with a flash of her old spirit.
And as he sat by her side one grey afternoon she suddenly turned her eyes on him with a flash of their old power.
I know they have," assented Jeckie with a flash of her keen eyes.
But a sudden flash of her keen eyes showed him that she was alive enough.
In the middle of that night a brilliant flash of lurid flame followed by a roar that shook her cottage to its foundations and left it rocking, sent her headlong from her bed.
Badly shaken though she was, a flash of her old indomitable spirit still woke to life at odd moments.
But as the vivid flash of flame and the infernal roar which followed it passed away, Jeckie standing in her night-clothes between her bed and her curtained window, felt herself stricken from head to foot; she was sick, in heart and brain.
Worse still, it can be broken by a slip of the foot, drowned by a cramp in the stomach, destroyed by a flash from the clouds.
My beard was three and a half feet long when I was born; and a flash of lightning burnt it off and killed the ancient who was delivering me.
Quick as a flash his left hand, the hand which bore the big signet ring, was raised to his lips.
Quick as a flash Tommy leapt from his hiding-place and dashed down the stairs, pulling the girl with him.
And like a flash there came into her mind another memory.
A flashof relief showed before the lids descended once more.
The gentleman stalked away, and the lady followed, lingering to cast upon us about the most viperish flash of the eyes that I have ever seen disfigure a pretty face.
I watched their position long and carefully through a good glass, but saw nothing except puffs of smoke and an occasionalflash of fire.
When the leader catches at a, it blows through to b; this lights the smeared surface of the box; the flash communicates the fire to c, and this carries it where desired.
It is evident that, upon conveying fire to the meal, by a leader, the flash will ignite the whole of the rockets, at once.
The sawdust prevents theflash igniting the whole at once.
As it ceased Kirkwood was half blinded by a flash of light, striking him squarely in the eyes.
She freed herself with a twist, and stepped back, a higher color in her cheeks, a flash of anger in her eyes.
Like a flashhe wheeled, to add yet another picture to his mental gallery.
Like a flash Margot turned upon Borelle, her eyes flashing with anger, but he held up a silencing hand.
Holding it up, Cleek let the lightflash through it, till it looked a veritable "eye" of wrath.
And it was only then, as she looked round over her shoulder at leaving, and a flash of alertness came into her eyes, that Cleek was able to put his finger on a point which heretofore had baffled him.
Here it was that a flash of memory brought back to Mr. Narkom that moment on the stairs at the Carlton and a recollection of what had been said.
The night was as dark as pitch, and from the moment that the boat started, nothing was to be seen but the white flash of the sea, which broke over the boat and drenched the crew.
Him girl," returned the woman, with a sudden flash of white teeth between parted crimson lips.
That" was a terrifying flash of red that suddenly illumined six of the big upper windows.
I saw the bright steel flash once, twice; and one reeled back, and rolled down under his fellows' feet.
I sank back in my seat, and glared at her in speechless indignation; seeing in a flash my impotence and her power.
And then, with an unmistakable flash of anger, "My God, Monsieur!
The flash in her eyes did not conceal a glint of triumph--or was it humor?
It was a quick, bright flash on his face--a moment only.
It lasted only for a moment; a flash of lightning lit up every corner of the house, bursting like white fire from every wall and ceiling.
The play of the lightning was incessant, and with every flash the little lakes shot back their white reflection, and distant farm window-panes seemed heliographing to each other through the night.
She, who never used to change colour, was pale to the lips, and in her eyes was a look of terror for him which betrayed all her love, and devotion and power of suffering for him, in the flash of an instant.
That sudden flash of radiance in the midst of his grief was but a dark shadow compared with the light of Hilda's face.
His long arm turned with the rapidity of lightning, and every one saw the whistling blade flash towards Rex's unprotected cheek.
For a flash of time I was too startled to act, but in the same flash I was convinced that the man had met his death from no accident, that he had not died through any ordinary failure of the laws of nature.
Why, it was I made him send his first Chinatown story to the International Magazine, and they took it like a flash and wrote him for more, but he blew in the check they sent him and didn't even answer their letter.
Around her throat was a great chain of diamonds, and the light played upon these and made them flash and blaze in tiny flames.
It was a great storm we had witnessed, away over the range to the east; we were far from the sound of the artillery, and it hid from us the flash of its batteries.
The instant he felt the sting he darted, like a flash of light through a clear topaz, for the bottom and centre of the pool.
I plunged onward amid the coiling stems and branches of the big rhododendrons, an illuminativeflash of the purple bonnet giving me my bearings.
Edward rose and beheld in the open doorway Helene DeBerczy; her large gaze, darker than a thunder cloud, was illumined by a long lightning flash of merciless irony.
And now, like a visible response to his silent but seemingly resistless longing, a boat was rapidly pushed away from the larger craft, and the swift flash and fall of the oars kept time to the pulsing in the old man's breast.
Great masses of black clouds still hung heavily in the western sky, occasionally pierced by a brilliant flash of sunshine, that emphasized by contrast the dreariness succeeding it.
She never paused to consider the ruin she had wrought, but darted off like a flash of lightning.
The next moment a flash of white lightning lit up the forest aisles,--and in that moment the man saw a huge black bear standing in the trail, not ten feet distant.
From a clump of hemlock not fifty yards away came a red flash and a sharp report.
This done to his satisfaction, he dropped like a flash from his seat, and disappeared into a small hollow beneath it.
The ram's mild gaze changed in a flash to one of cold, yellow savagery at the sight of the great black beast invading his kingdom.
The wings of the flock, as if on signal, turned out and upward, showing a flash of paler colour as they checked the still considerable speed of the flight.
In other words, Bombay aroused New York to action by means of a flash of electricity within twenty-four hours.
As is the flare of a great fire when a wood is burning on a hill-top, so was the flash of their arms and their armor as they thronged to the field.
Thus he thought in his heart; and Achilles came near, brandishing over his right shoulder the great Pelian spear, and the flash of his arms was as the flame of fire or as the rising sun.
Five miles farther on, the flash of the search-light caught their eyes as it slowly swept a broad beam across the veldt surrounding the town.
One crash, one murderous flash of fire, and the hearts of the Boers were inspired with terror, and they fled precipitately to cover, whence they kept up a sullen fusillade.
Less than five seconds later a huge shell shrieked just above their heads, and, striking the house opposite, exploded with a terrific flash and roar, shattering the walls to pieces.
A second later it had been left behind, but the rope in his hand jerked and then stretched tight, as though the flash had been a signal and someone were pulling.
As he did so a second flash showed Wilfred standing up and using his whip freely, while two mounted Boers were galloping along on either side of the leaders, vainly endeavouring to pull them up.
What happened to the bullet Jack never knew; probably it went beneath his arm, for he found a slit in the sleeve after the fight was over, but the concussion and flash of light almost blinded him.
He ran his fingers along it, and was wondering what it could be, when the flashof a light from the open veldt at the side of the line caught his eye.
They had heard the firing, seen the flash of the gun-cotton which had destroyed the gun, and so learned that some of their number were making a sortie.
In a flash of movement Les tried to get a weapon from his desk.
Though the ominous movement on the burned-out slope continued, the actualflash of weapons seemed suspended.
In a flash Ed drew his own Midas Touch and fired it at the place among the broken rocks where the canary had just vanished.
This impression came on me as sudden as a flash of light, and with it this thought.
One pentecostal flash of the Holy Ghost on a consecrated heart, and mind, brings intelligence that all the culture of the day cannot fathom, nor in any way comprehend.
Another instant and a hand was pressed upon his mouth and there was a dazzlingflash of light from a dark lantern held over him.
The children had seen the flashof light when the Vicar opened his front door.
And in a flash of glass and pink baby-paws, the bowl of golden carp in the middle of the table rolled on its side and poured a flood of mixed water and gold-fish into the Baby's lap and into the laps of the others.
Suddenly like a flash of lightning, the golden gravel shone all round the four children instead of the dusky figures.
Aristotle did, however, have a flash of the truth.
