A pine-knot fire was soon kindled on the hearth, and threw its flickering shadows on the room and its occupants as the dusk gathered in.
The flickering light showed his face to be a fat one, kind enough, gleaming now with perspiration and fear, but shiny at other times with that Christian tolerance which makes men kind to their own failings.
Thus the boat plunged out toward the sea and the flickering lights that mark the channel, tacking right across to that spit of land lying between the Gironde and the broad Atlantic, where grows a wine without match in all the world.
Often just a simple cold suffices to snuff out the flickering life.
The candle, which had been flickering for several minutes, here went out, and she was busy for a while, taking another from her pocket and lighting it.
Eyes girded and shot with a bloody film bulged fixedly up at them, glaring through the flickering orange light.
I stood by a blazing city Till the fires had died away, Save a flickering gleam in the ruins And a fitful gleam on the bay.
Now and then the flickering firelight touched his face and showed the harsh lines of its rugged chiselling and the steadiness of his contemplative eyes.
Then she slipped softly into the tent where Leger lay asleep, and coming out with a coarse brown blanket, spread it over Ingleby, though as she did it the flickering light showed a rich damask in her cheek.
A flickering blaze was roaring up the chimney now.
Ingleby went in knee-deep, with the firelight flickering on him, and with a twirl of his hands washed out half the lighter contents of the basin.
The firelight still flickering redly upon the towering trunks showed Hetty Leger the curious intentness in Ingleby's gaze.
Bonfires were built on the northern and the southern bank, but all the wood was wet, and the flickering light proved deceitful as any darkness.
She stood in the flickering glow and said, “Yankees!
Beyond, stood a thick grove with a clear sky flickering among the branches.
I pointed to the lights of the inn, flickering across the fields.
Hardly a chill was in the air, but for her sake a log blazed in the cavernous fireplace and threw its flickering light over the guest who sat in front.
Under the flickering spark the face of the abbot had at first flushed with anger and then grown ashen with vague, formless terror.
Again the same great dark room, lighted by a flickering spark.
The leaping savages, the flickeringfirelight playing upon their painted bodies, circled about the victim at the stake.
In the dim and flickering light of the dying fires she saw but a single sentry, and he was dozing upon his haunches at the opposite side of the enclosure.
Only the rustle of the wind outside and the flickering shadows across the hall answered her.
But his aunt seemed reluctant to speak, and looked after Miss Ruth, who was walking slowly up the mossy path, flecked here and there by patches of sunshine that fell through the flickering leaves above her.
After the benediction had been pronounced she walked absently down the aisle, and went at once to her horse under the flickering shadows of the chestnuts.
Overhead was a gray expanse of cloud, slightly stirred, however, by a breeze; so that a gleam of flickering sunshine might now and then be seen at its solitary play along the path.
The decision once made, a glow of strange enjoyment threw its flickering brightness over the trouble of his breast.
Then a cool breath stirred his thin hair, and the low flame of the one candle dropped down almost to a mere spark, not flickering as though a draught were going to blow it out, but just dropping down as if it were tired out.
For the last time the dreadful smile came upon the twisted lips, very slowly, very surely now, and the toad eyes glared red, and the parchment face glowed a little in the flickering light.
Children who could read, read, as I did, by the flickering light of the fire, which often limited for life the power of seeing.
In tinder-box days the nimble night burglar heard the flint and steel going, and had time to pack up his booty and reach the next parish, before the owner descended the stairs with his flickering candle.
Vibert, as by the flickering light of the bed-room candle, which he had brought from his own apartment, he recognized the travellers who now entered the hall.
For more than an hour Emmie watched the flickering spark of life, and tried to whisper words of holy comfort, which the now dulled mind and deafened ear had no longer power to receive.
The spring is rustling in the tree-- The tree the wind is blowing through-- It sets the blossoms flickering white.
By the light of the flickering blaze he saw the trouble and worry pass from her brow and the expression of her face grow as quiet and contented as that of a child's.
They sat there waiting, perfectly still, with the candles flickering faintly about the room in the night air that breathed in through the open windows.
He saw Lady Markland stand, with the child clinging to her, in the dim room, the shrouded bed and indistinct attendant figures behind, the dimly flickering lights.
He came to her at the door of the room which had so suddenly, with its bare, unused look, in the darkness of a few flickering candles, become a sort of presence chamber filled with the solemnity of dying.
For an instant there was intense darkness, followed by a succession of brilliant, flickering illuminations, bewildering to the senses.
Jean was standing by his side, the bright, flickering flames illuminating her happy face.
The table had been laid with care, and the light from the bright open fire-place cast its soft flickering glow upon the spotless linen and well-arranged dishes.
He observed the flickering light dancing upon her soft, wavy hair, and the varying expressions playing upon her face as she listened to her father.
Finally, without raising her eyes, she sat down by the flickering candle and read them all.
For a moment he stared at her, at me, and around the cabin, dim in the flickering light of logs and candle.
The men and women under the flickering lights were by this time as responsive to the speaker's words as a child to its mother's voice.
