The single tiny candle flickered in the cane-walled darkness of their shack; the glittering eyes of the Mojo and Tacana retainers gathered in the doorway to listen to the peculiar noises made by white men in conversation.
Quickly the velvet darkness of the tropics fell, and the high lights flickered on naked skins; slowly the moon rose above the purple hills of the background, transforming the muddy surface of the swirling river into a shimmer of molten silver.
A faint glow as of soft coral flickered over the crests of a stray cloud, that, close after, flushed with the bolder brilliancy of the ruby and the topaz.
As the last and thirteenth chair was filled, the mask at the head leaned forward and pointed silently to a dark object at the far end of the room about which the candles flickered and sparkled.
It flickered for a moment and he held it between his hands, coaxing it.
There came back a gush of bodily strength, the last leaping of the light before it flickered in the socket.
The countess lay motionless--the flame of existence flickered between life and death.
It seemed to me that the still room shook and echoed to the barely whispered word, that the candles stirred and flickered as in a wind of passing wings.
But no, he was not poking fun, though the rich color had come into his cheek, and the golden lights flickered mischievously in his eyes.
He now approached the window where the light shone--the faint, dim light which flickered against the blind and seemed almost to go out, and then shone once more.
Once, a strange primitive impression flickered through his senses: it was a moment he never forgot.
Around him danced and flickered a hundred meters, indicator lights, tubes.
The oscilloscope flickered as he readjusted, a new trace appeared.
When the light flickered on the pantry shelves the mother gave a scream of surprise and anger.
The stars flickered out; the moon grew pale, and for a while the horsemen rode into a wall of blackness, conscious of progress only by the sound of hoof-beats which they were relentlessly urging forward.
His quivering words were spoken to a profile of bronze, over which flickered a smile as she answered with a prompting and disinterested analysis.
I think that he knew then that the light of our guiding lantern had flickered out, but he said nothing.
Magin still watched, as the little flame flickered through the windless air.
He caught the look, and her eyelidsflickered and fell before his gaze, and then, as the footman repaired the damage, she sank back once more into the half-light beyond the radiance of the candles.
The lightflickered and sputtered with each fresh onslaught of the wind.
It gave a feeble light at best, but now it sputtered and flickered like some dying thing and sent out weird shadows that stole up and down the dirty walls.
The last of the little bit of tallow candle flickered in its socket.
The lamp scarcely flickered as Grosjean held it above his head.
She attempted to speak, but there came only a quiver across her mouth, and a sickly smile that flickeredover the ghastly proud face, like the lying sunshine of Indian summer on marble cenotaphs.
Shading their eyes with their hands they lay on their backs and blinked up at the sun which flickered down on them through the sparse fir boughs.
Over the exhausted city hung a sultry haze of secret desire, in which formal restraint and genuine feeling flickered and went out, leaving no sign of ever having been.
Her eyelids flickered over her eyes as though he were dust in their light.
Two bats flickered and zigzagged hither and thither above the glimmering stream.
Only at long intervals a thin, whitish membrane flickered down across them for a fraction of an instant, to cleanse and lubricate them and keep their piercing brightness undimmed.
Curtains of the same stuff and colour flickeredin the draught from the windows opened on a gloomy backyard.
His head was bent, his eyes downcast, and the smile that flickered over his thin lips unseen.
By the horses stood Conrad Sigismund, bringing them one by one under review, in the scanty gleam of light afforded by the lantern, and that flickeredupon them through the space that answered for a window.
Within its penthouse eave an oil-lamp flickered before the frescoed Madonna and Child; the shelf in front of the picture was heaped with flowers just beginning to fade.
The loggia, was in festa; and the morning sun flickered through the vine-leaves on the bright table, and the patterns of the brick floor.
The candlelight flickered across the alabaster, sending ghostly apparitions against the fresco of the dolphins.
A heavy gust flickered her candle, adding mystery to the shadows dancing across the enigmatic women of the frescoes.
The line in his senior's cheek flickered with a hinted smile.
It worked the kind o' miracle, for one of the Corporal's stiffened eyelids quivered and came down halfway, and the martial spirit of its owner flickered up long enough for W.
An expression of ineffable triumph, and of triumph only, flickeredin the Older Man's face.
Then a little shy smile flickered across her face and was gone again.
And then suddenly the neon lights flickered and went out, leaving a complete and utter blackness.
It flickered uneasily for a while, and finally went off altogether.
The cold air played with the water, and flickered upon the Minerva's deck; strong enough only to appear mischievous, too soft and wayward to make its presence known to those within.
The candle flickered still more in the draught from the open window; and Jenny saw her breath hang like a cloud before her.
Wilson's eyes flickeredover him, hurt and dubious.
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