Suddenly something touched my leg, and the thought of the sharks we had watched from the bridge the previous afternoon flashed shudderingly across my mind—but it was only a floating potato!
A minute later the lantern flashed in my face, a pair of strong arms grasped me by the shoulders and hauled me clear of the water.
It was the size of a pigeon's egg, and was set among eight gems of lesser magnitude; and in transit through the sunlight the trinket flashed and glittered with diabolical beauty.
Graciosa broke off in speech, shrugged, flashed a smile at him.
A leather helmet rolled from his head, and the silver crescent of the police flashed on his breast.
Richling flushed and flashed with the mortifying knowledge that his companion's behavior was better than his own.
A heightened gladness flashed into the faces of the two young people as they descried the physician.
And, as she spoke, there flashed into her mind some idea of the meaning of certain little sentences that were breathed into her ear yesterday.
She took note of all their superficial peculiarities in a moment, and the conviction that the lace and the pearls were realflashed across her like an inspiration.
Then it flashed across Mrs. Duff-Scott that Paul Brion might have been the donor, and she said no more.
And, suddenly, Eleanor, who was supposed to be washing plates and dishes in the kitchen, flashed into the room, startling them all out of their dreams.
Grant was silent; it had flashed across him that Rice might have harbored revenge for his father-in-law's interference in his brief matrimonial experience.
The meaning of his father's attitude instinctively flashed upon the boy.
The colorflashed to his cheek and he felt a mist before his eyes.
Some were so young when they left us, that morning Seemed to haveflashed and then died into gloaming, Leaving us wearier 'neath the world's scorning, Blinder in roaming.
She was no longer restless, and her eyes no longer flashed with impatience, but had a sweet and calm expression; and Lenz's work always succeeded better when she was near.
But it flashed across her mind, "And Lenz could go away without even saying good morning to me!
Proebler continued to talk wildly, though sometimes a clear thought flashed through his wandering brain.
At this shaft, Grandmother Stark flashed awake deep within the spirit of her descendant, and she made a haughty declaration of war.
And as Molly Wood's eyes fell upon her ancestress of Bennington, 1777, there flashed a spark of steel in them, alone here in the room that she was leaving forever.
At that name light flashed on Mrs. Taylor, and she turned to Molly; and there was the girl struggling with a fit of mirth at his speech; but the laughter was fast becoming a painful seizure.
The sunlight flashed on the six-shooter where it lay, and the Virginian secured it.
But he grew interested after awhile, and was touched unconsciously by the beautiful faith and tender humanity that flashed out here and there.
Besides, her eyes were fixed on the distant sea, which flashed in the sunset like burnished gold.
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.
I was awakened early in the morning by a slight call from Bill, and sat up in the boat, rather bewildered for a moment, till I saw the outline of the body in the stern sheets, and then everything flashed back to my memory.
All at once it flashed upon my brain that my second in command was inciting the crew to my downfall and his own elevation.
Amongst the many thatflashed through my mind, I picked out these, as forming the most important to first receive my attention.
But one thought flashed into my mind upon this discovery, matches!
The want of water had troubled me on the preceding day, and it flashed across my mind, What shall I do if I find no fresh water?
Biff flashed a smile at Chuba and signaled the direction he meant to take.
The plane swooped out of the dark, flashed over the landing field, circled and entered its final glide path.
His head was downward; it was not till the blue eyes flashed inquisitively up that Father Anthony recognized Pierre.
Above them in the sky the thunder rode; the rain whipped against the rocks like the rattle of a thousand flying hoofs; and now and again the lightning flashed across the sky.
His glance wavered and flashed around the circle and then back to Red Pierre, for the expectancy of the crowd forced him back.
She shifted the golden scarf--the white arms and breast flashed in the light--a gasp responded.
Birds flashed across the open vault of this forest room--brilliant birds, like the Louisiana Tanager; sober little birds like the creepers and nuthatches.
A second vision flashed by of a ragged, unshorn fugitive, now in jail, whom his testimony could condemn.
As he was dropping asleep two phrases flashed across his brain.
The Douglas squirrels scampered and barked; the birds twittered and flashed or slanted in long flight through the trees; the sun shone soft; a cool breeze ruffled the feathery tips of the tarweed.
The Frenchman flashed his teeth, and bowed with some courtesy.
A bewildering succession of coloured views flashed on the screen.
The thought flashed across his mind that the fire was probably breaking across elsewhere, just like this.
I kept twisting it about, and thinking how like it was to my own writing, when the truth suddenly flashed on me.
I had lost a sister a few months previously, and the thought flashedacross me that it might be her.
In a moment it flashed across me to ask her to return to Bayswater and sleep with me, for I was most desirous of testing her powers when we were alone together.
The fire flashed about him and roared like a furnace.
But the hand she extended was small and white, and flashed the fire of diamonds.
In a moment, it flashed through me that he had smelt the ghost to be a thing of flesh and blood.
He laughed harshly as that thought flashed through his brain.
And then before he could move the control stick, or jump on a rudder pedal, the seaplane had flashed by him, and his Cyclone was starting to cough raspingly and spew black smoke out of its exhaust.
Intelligence seemed purposely to allow three or four moments for the importance of his statement to have its effect upon his listeners, and then he made a little gesture with one hand, and flashed them a brief smile once more.
In a moment would come the shock of the braking rocket-tubes firing from the bows-- That shock came an instant after the wild expedient flashedacross Kenniston's mind.
She wore a white middy blouse, and her brown, bare forearms flashed pleasantly in the spring sun.
The girl's white hand flashed to her side, then rose sure and steady, holding her pistol.
The old exhilaration and rapture of battle flashed through him as he swung his axe, sending home blow after blow.
As this dreadful thought flashed home he dropped the empty rifle and seized the axe that leaned against a log of spruce beside the fire.
His eye kindled at the recognition, and the beginnings of a smile flashed to his lips.
III There was a great house-cleaning in the dome of the heavens one memorable night that flashed like a jewel from the murky desolation of a rainy spring.
Because his mind was operating clear and sure, his thoughts flashed at once to his enemies in their cabins along the creek.
The burnished wings of a flock of mallard flashed in the air, startled by some creeping hunter.
The woman flashed a furious look through her half-closed lids at the man sitting in front.
The drunken man sat grinning, as one picture after the other flashed across his sick brain.
A thought flashed through Mrs. Tiralla's mind, "How impertinent she was!
Mrs. Tiralla did not notice the smile that made the big mouth under the snub nose still bigger, nor the cunning, lurking gleam that flashed in the small, deep-set eyes.
And whilst praying, all kinds of plans flashed through her mind.
Oh, what a fool he had been, suddenly flashed through his mind.
Pg 119] Then she had flashed a glance at him, a swift and strangely scrutinizing glance.
Her mother had even kissed her when she had said good night, and she felt as if a flame of light had flashed through her.
Always there were the intermittent black bands that flashed swiftly across the brightness, momentarily darkening the sphere and then passing on into the limbo of this strange realm between planes.
The man's eyes had flashed to the place where the swords were used to hang.
For a moment he stared blindly at his rescuer, then a glad intelligence flashed into his eyes.
That diamond flashed like the Gould's Bluffs light.
His deep-set eyes flashed and his big fist pounded the office table.
Presently she flashed a glance at him somewhat angrily and her lips moved as though she said:-- "What right have you to speak like that?
The white balustrades and flights of steps around the great circle, the statuary and the fountains in the middle lake, flashed pure.
Behind us shimmered the blue lake, great mountains rising behind; away on the right, embosomed in the green mountainside, flashed the white Château de Hautecombe.
Hardly had the boy turned away, however, before the quick thought flashed into his mind that he had failed to ask him the question for which he had called him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flashed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
