A flame flickered at the back of his eyes, a small, weak, smoky flame.

Richard and Stein whispered together as they stared at the weak flames.

My joyful anger came from her, my weak flame fed by her proximity.

'Sorry, sir,' Sharpe said, and then he ran to where one of the spent rockets still had weak flames burning from its exhaust.

The weak flame from the lamp was all that betrayed the shape she thought she saw.

The light of the spirit extinguished like the weak flame of a lamp gone out.

Then it caught with a weak blue smokeless flame.

The door opened softly, and there, lighted against the black night, stood a bent, feeble man with eyes like weak flames.

On the eighth try a small, weak flame appeared, wavered and almost died again.

The man with the scarlet eye was staring at his right hand, where weak blue flames popped along the fingers.