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There had been something of sinister portent in that swift merging together of the two figures upon the sky-line, and in the flash-like glimpse of the riderless horse.

The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

For this amazing splendor showed itself in a flash-like revelation to the freed portion of his consciousness, and he knew it irresistibly because he himself shared it.

The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910

Sympathy is the name for that place -- that state -- they feel with each other, see flash-like from the same point of view for a moment.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

Rogers saw the fact, flash-like and true-then let it go, yielding to the greater pull that drew reflection back into the past.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

With startling vividness, the incidents of their acquaintance came to him in flash-like succession -- the day that Rutlidge had met Sibyl in the studio; the time of his visit to the camp in the sycamore grove; the night of the Taine banquet -- a hundred things that had strengthened the feeling of antagonism which had marked their first meeting.

The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

Suddenly, with the flash-like quickness that was a part of her physical inheritance from her mountain life, she darted past him; eluding his effort to detain her -- and was out of the building.

The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

The girl interrupted with one of her flash-like changes.

The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

The artist -- puzzled by her flash-like change of moods, and by her manner as she spoke of the world beyond the canyon gates -- had no words to reply.

The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

As it was, the flash-like impression of the moment remained, and --

The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

But at his touch, with another cry, she sprang to her feet and, whirling with the flash-like quickness of a wild thing, vanished into the undergrowth that walled in the glade.

The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908