" The Station Master loosed Peter's collar, struck a match and looked at them by its flickering light.
Wilkins's funny, flickering face was blown out.
"Oh, she does look really dead," whispered Ruby Gillis nervously, watching the still, white little face under the flickering shadows of the birches.
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead.
" "Well, where you see one of them blue lights flickering around, Tom, you can bet there's a ghost mighty close behind it.
At last he got up cautiously, on his knees, and went searching among the grass and the flickering reflections flung by the campfire.
Despite all the hype, the movie-image sentimentalism, Manhattan - the central island and the city's real core - has massive romance: whether it's the flickering lights of the midtown skyscrapers as you speed across the Queensboro bridge, the 4am half-life in Greenwich Village, or just wasting the morning on the Staten Island ferry, you really would have to be made of stone not to be moved by it all.
, Flickering light touched the stones underfoot and brushed against a long procession of granite pillars that marched ahead, ,, two by two, into the dark.
Make your screen more eye-friendly You can take steps to make your screen easier on your eyes, such as making the text larger, increasing your device's refresh rate to ensure less flickering of the screen, and shifting the screen's colour levels away from the blue end of the spectrum and towards the softer yellow end.
To measure levels of the nutrient in the participants the researchers looked at the participants' eyes, where lutein accumulates in the tissue, asking them look into a scope and respond to a flickering light.
But that flickering flame might not seem quite so relaxing once you know it is spreading pollution around your home.
But that flickering flame might not seem quite so relaxing once you know it is spreading pollution around your home.
I walk with you in the garden, sharing the last of the light, the flickering of bats, the scent of roses.
Just rocked back and forth, his face lit by the silver glow of the images flickering across the screen.
I stood under it, remembered all the times we'd climbed it, straddled its branches, our legs swinging, dappled sunlight flickering through the leaves and casting on our faces a mosaic of light and shadow.
In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky.
So older television sets, which show fewer frames per second than modern televisions, would appear to a dog to be flickering like a "1920s movie," said Nicholas Dodman, a veterinary behaviorist at Tufts University, in Massachusetts.
My campus front door has the name of mother school on the door with a southern exposure, in the sun flickering give out light.
We took turns with the mirror as we ate mulberries, pelted each other with them, giggling, laughing; I can still see Hassan up on that tree, sunlight flickering through the leaves on his almost perfectly round face, a face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood: his flat, broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes like bamboo leaves, eyes that looked, depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire.
