aflicker

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.

New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

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 ...

'The Pregnant Widow' 2010

Sunlight drenched us, though more than a third of the sky was black, tumid with rain, intermittently aflicker with electricity.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

Suddenly overwhelmed, cold lightnings aflicker in him, the boy stared past his father, outward and outward.

Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

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.

The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

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.

The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

It displayed a schematic of the sock ahead, aflicker with fields of fire.

The Dragon Never Sleeps Cook, Glen 1988

Jets aflicker, the boat staggered drunkenly over the moonscape.

Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

One was scarfaced, athletic, his tailtip restlessly aflicker.

The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

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."

A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969