Again, the beams stabbed, this time in a slow, sweeping pattern.

It was then that bright beams of light stabbed at them from all sides.

Abruptly a pencil-thin crimson beam stabbed the night off to the right.

A second later, a dark blue beam stabbed the panel, eliciting a spray of sparks.

The twin beams stabbed deep into the giant warship's guts.

The light beam stabbed between the iron bars of the hole in the cell door.

Suddenly, a beam of intense, red phaserlight stabbed through the swarm.

Then the beam of an electric torch stabbed the blackness.

On the third site, the beam stabbed at the center of the monstrous, snake-rimmed face.

A minute before, beams of light had stabbed the sky.