The stallion faltered a sickening instant, then found footing on the chain of islands that lay beneath the brackish water.

A sickening instant of this, then the great bulk quivered and lay still.

For one sickening instant he felt eternity yawn beneath him--then his upflung fingers hooked over the rim of the crest.

For a sickening instant the whiteness gave, but only a little.

Simultaneously, magnetic clamps were deactivated and, in a sickening instant of free fall, the AF-7's dropped through the yawning hatch.

In a single, sickening instant Franklin knew that she was right.

For a sickening instant she felt her fingers loosen on the baton but no bones had been broken and strength flooded back.

Then, in one sickening instant, realization dawned.

For a terrifying, sickening instant he saw everything, the unbelievable horror of the killer coming right into his home.

For a sickening instant he felt himself falling.