The distant flicker, Mr. Segura thought, was the law on their tail.

She looked back to the quiet night and the distant flickers.

A distant flicker of torchlight slid across his grinning face, his off-kilter gaze.

He saw the distant flicker of a fiery gate and heard the call again, more demanding this time.

From the marshes came the distant flicker of flames, where the Saxon dead were burning.

And on the scanner at my right a distant flicker showed me we were finished.

His apprehension had subsided but it sprang forth with every distant flicker of movement or unexpected sound.

In fact, she could see gaps in the surface here and there through which she could glimpse distant flickers of cloud and sky.

A faint, distant flicker, almost pettish.

As we stare back through the ages, Herophilus hardly stands as a distant flicker of moral quandary.