flickeringly

The light of hope kindled by women such as Joan shone only flickeringly in a great darkness, but it was never entirely to go out.

A Conversation with Donna Woolfolk Cross 2010

I imagined hearing it recited in a flickeringly gas-lit auditorium by Sir Henry Irving, the actor who once reduced Bram Stoker to a state of collapse with his rendition of "The Dream of Eugene Aram".

Poem of the week: Wind by Sydney Dobell 2010

His tongue was as flickeringly quick as a snake's, but it did not revolt her.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

The Sealons' phaser beams had cut through the main power supply to the Security section; by an almost impossible coincidence, the shock waves from the exploding outer skin had so degraded the section's self-contained emergency power unit that seconds passed before the lights in Kinitz's cabin came flickeringly and weakly to life again.

The Trellisane Confrontation David Dvorkin 1990

The Sealons' phaser beams had cut through the main power supply to the Security section; by an almost impossible coincidence, the shock waves from the exploding outer skin had so degraded the section's self-contained emergency power unit that seconds passed before the lights in Kinitz's cabin came flickeringly and weakly to life again.

The Trellisane Confrontation David Dvorkin 1990

The Sealons' phaser beams had cut through the main power supply to the Security section; by an almost impossible coincidence, the shock waves from the exploding outer skin had so degraded the section's self-contained emergency power unit that seconds passed before the lights in Kinitz's cabin came flickeringly and weakly to life again.

The Trellisane Confrontation David Dvorkin 1990

Or unless the past was as uncertain, as flickeringly quantum-variable, as everything else in the universe of physics.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

Or unless the past was as uncertain, as flickeringly quantum-variable, as everything else in the universe of physics.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

She smiled flickeringly (like a flashbulb, on and off almost before you saw it) and turned back to the desk calculator.

Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977

In the middle of wreck, Kossara could flickeringly wonder if the Eriau name had been given him by his parents, when he was born somewhere in the Roidhunate.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974