The thought flashed across her brain, "Better stuff in our young days."
It was only as she felt herself going off completely that a stray thought flashed across her exhausted brain.
"Now, then, in this difficulty a bright idea has flashed across my brain."
She could almost see the thought processes flicker across his brain.
The images came, sliding across my brain like a movie.
These are the images that danced across my brain during this holiday break.
Looting the bodies makes sense, although, somehow, the thought burns a line across his brain.
I do not doubt that this same thought, with regard to myself, is flashing across your brain.
There flashed across his brain the thought that it looked like a coffin.
Better dead, trying for a break, than-Something flashed across his brain.