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Example sentences for "flashed upon"

  • All at once it flashed upon my brain that my second in command was inciting the crew to my downfall and his own elevation.

  • I noticed that the water and the stones were both of a brown, rusty color, and it flashed upon me that it must be caused by iron.

  • And then, as Tom's hand was laid upon my arm, it flashed upon me that the woman he loved was my plighted bride--and he knew nothing of it.

  • Somehow I knew that I should win, and somehow it flashed upon me that she knew it too.

  • As she spoke, she shut her fan with a sharp click, and then it flashed upon me that it had never ceased its pendulous motion until that instant.

  • That suspicion which of late had been perpetually floating dimly in his brain--that vague distrust of his one chosen friend, John Saltram, flashed upon him in this moment with a new distinctness.

  • I know not why, but at that moment the recollection of the muffled figure I had seen upon the course, flashed upon me.

  • While I gazed upon him, a thought of more exquisite and refined revenge than had yet occurred to me flashed upon my mind.

  • It flashed upon me that something had fallen my way.

  • It flashed upon me that my gentleman was, after all, only some one who was wanted, and that he regarded me with as much apprehension as I had regarded him with caution.

  • This small force accounted, as I have said, for the moderation Zamet had shown; but it flashed upon me that the lackey had been left behind for no other purpose than that of observing our route.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    answer the; benefit from; but may; each party; farre from; flashed over; flashed upon; great evil; great orator; happy here; hath said; judged according; moral training; much sought; nor does; often represented; other studies; personal character; quite suddenly; stop them; wood pulp; would come; would remain