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》
Leehallfae fell back suddenly. Maskull dropped on his knees, and helplessly watched the last flickerings of aer spirit, going out like a candle in foul air. Death came.... He closed the eyes. The awful grin of Crystalman immediately fastened upon the phaen's dead features. While Maskull was still kneeling, he became conscious of someone standing beside him. He looked up quickly and saw a man, but did not at once rise. "Another phaen dead," said the newcomer in a grave, toneless, and intellectual voice.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
And a little flicker of the warm and giddy will grow and spread.美剧 · 《Billions》
I'm here because when I hit the ten billion mark, I felt a flicker of excitement about the same as finding a twenty dollar bill on the sidewalk, and then.nothing.美剧 · 《Billions》