One was scarfaced, athletic, his tailtip restlessly aflicker. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Jets aflicker, the boat staggered drunkenly over the moonscape. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
It displayed a schematic of the sock ahead, aflicker with fields of fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Never Sleeps]
Suddenly overwhelmed, cold lightnings aflicker in him, the boy stared past his father, outward and outward. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Sunlight drenched us, though more than a third of the sky was black, tumid with rain, intermittently aflicker with electricity. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Because he had come down at Ilitu's head, he saw the face inverted, a chiaroscuro behind the hyalon, lights and shadows aflicker as his lamps moved. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Before entering the forest, we saw an impressive cell of mini thunderheads, gorgeously mauve and dimly aflicker from within, standing on the phony horizon like purple-robed clerics of Doom. From Wordnik.com. [New Race] Reference
Then finally -- it was dark outside, the hot still dark of summer's end, heat lightning aflicker beyond stockade and skeletal trees -- he summoned her; but when she entered the office, he rose and said: "Let us go to my private quarters.". From Wordnik.com. [A Circus of Hells]
After fifteen or twenty seconds, Lily and Scheherazade (with Keith somehow bracketed in the middle of it) were swiftly and surreally engulfed by a swarm of young men, not boys or youths, but young men in sharp shirts and pressed slacks, whooping, pleading, cackling and all aflicker, like a telekinetic card trick of kings and knaves, shuffling and riffling and fanning out under the streetlamps. From Wordnik.com. ['The Pregnant Widow'] Reference
The dark interior of the shed was aflicker with white wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Rust] Reference
The butternut-colored room still exudes a warmth that's especially cozy when the fireplace is aflicker. From Wordnik.com. [Philly.com - Latest Videos] Reference
It was after all Fritzing who had behaved with the braveness of a lion the night before in that matter of the policeman; and it was he who had asked in stern tones of rebuke, when her courage seemed aflicker, whether she repented. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight] Reference
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