Miss Minchin struck the door open with a blow of her hand. She was pale herself, but it was with rage. She looked from the frightened faces to the banquet table, and from the banquet table to the last flicker of the burnt paper in the grate.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
One little flickering spark of life goes on. A day! a week! who can tell how long?"
"Has he a doctor?" Trent asked. "The missionary, he is a medical man," Oom Sam explained. "Yet he is long past the art of medicine."
It seemed to Trent, turning at that moment to relight his cigar, that a look of subtle intelligence was flashed from one to the other of the brothers. He paused with the match in his fingers, puzzled, suspicious, anxious. So there was some scheme hatched already between these precious pair!英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
Raines had stopped now in the centre of the cabin, and the shadows flickering slowly over him gave an unearthly aspect to his tall, gaunt figure, as he stood with uplifted arm, pale face, glowing eyes, and disordered hair.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
In the long evenings, by the flicker of the fire, they sat together, cheek to cheek, and looked at this little bed, singing low songs together.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
But the upward pressure ceased before our efforts. We heard the ladder creak again under a ponderous and slow descent; and we stood upright in the dim flicker of a candle-end that I had lit and left burning on the floor. Raffles glanced at the four small windows in turn and then at me. "Is there any way out at all.?" he whispered, as no other being would or could have whispered to the man who had led him into such a trap. "We've no rope-ladder, you know."英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Before they had time to realise their position, they were in the sunlight. The upheaval still continued. In another minute or two the valley floor had formed a new mountain, a hundred feet or more higher than the old. Then its movement ceased suddenly. Every noise stopped, as if by magic; not a rock moved. Oceaxe and Maskull picked themselves up and examined themselves for cuts and bruises. The shrowk lay on its side, panting violently, and sweating with fright. "That was a nasty affair," said Maskull, flicking the dirt off his person.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
So, I had a little bit of a self-control problem, and I would put a rubber band around my wrist and flick it every time I got the urge to...flick it.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
I watched four chick flicks back-to-back, then I made a list of possible ways to tell Caroline I love her.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》