Word: flickered
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Sarah, a mass of feline fur, follows the Yard officials on their most solitary rounds. She is never far from a guardian of the Yard: her mew accompanies every flicker of the signal lantern at Gray's Hall...
Oxlike Van der Lubbe showed not a flicker of emotion...
...TIME, May 15). Three years in Holly wood have taught Miss Hopkins to wiggle her eyebrows, as though engaged in a perpetual closeup. but otherwise her acting and good looks have been improved. There is a sharp flicker of vitality at the end of Jezebel's second act: against one of Don ald Oenslager's superbly romantic sets. dressed in an inverted fountain of white lace, her voice flat with excitement and despair, she celebrates the fact that a duel has resulted from her bad behaviour by singing a gay song with her slaves. The fact that...
...sudden madness had gripped the distinguished Senator. At its annual convention North Carolina's State Federation of Women's Clubs had pondered the fact that Alabama has officially adopted the flicker as its State bird, Massachusetts the veery, West Virginia the tufted titmouse. North Carolina was one of only five States without an official bird. That deficiency, concluded the federated ladies, should be supplied at once. Winner of a Statewide newspaper poll had been the Carolina chickadee, small cousin of the little grey-white-&-black bird which cheers many a northern farmer's wife with its pert...
...coming from; she is there, bright flesh, smiling, unworried, absolute in the moment, against a gaudy background of boxes and labels, like some person in a novel. The streetcars pass, carrying people to no destination; they sit in the brightly lit rows of seats, staring out, they flicker above the roar of the car-wheels, and exist no further. Enchanted, the Vagabond strolls past shops and people, in the still lingering heat, enjoying the colors and smells unthinkingly, willessly...