Springfield knew the flame of Grant's life was flickering dangerously low, and that time was short.

Heat flickered low in her belly.

He writes: "We are home now though our flame flickers low.

The firelight flickered low; activity in the camp dwindled.

Still, it does no harm occasionally to face the truth: even he sometimes had to produce music when the fires of inspiration flickered low.

Alf waited until the Bishop was comfortable, half-dreaming over his breviary but still awake, with the lamp flickering low.

The candles, flickering low, turned the long basement room to a maze of shadows.

Their fire flickered low, then died.

The fires are flickering low.

And then Freelorn looked at Herewiss, and the joy in his eyes dimmed and flickered low.