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There is a flicking of life force in it now.
There was a momenespause; he could hear the flicking of the registration cards.
While we remain fixated upon the flicking of the switch - bong!
Then I felt 'the charm start up again, like the flicking of one of those nonexistent light switches.
In the instant of the flicking of the switch the captain's mind became Kinnison's.
The only obvious vital sign he displayed was the flicking of his eyes as he scanned the typeouts.
The imp seemed to think it would-by the flicking of its hungry tongue across its lips.
The composer had available a variety of pre-taped segments, which he modified by the flicking of cryptic switches.
"You'd come here at dusk, and at the top of the stairs there'd be a flicking of Bics everywhere.
An angry hiss, a flicking of venomous fangs, and Barry was fading, trying to scream but it was no more than a dying whisper.
The flicking of the horses' tails and the long streamers on the lances, lifting on a cold breeze, were the only disordered things to be seen.
Any fishkeeper who has seen the fry's response to the flicking of the black pelvic fins of their mother will have no doubt that communication is taking place.
It was impossible from her angle to tell which one was so diverting the man, but by watching the flicking of his eyes she narrowed it down to two.
They also noted that the responses and outbursts were turned on and off like the flicking of a light switch, indicating more of a rehearsed than a spontaneous reaction.
For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger."
It meant that instead of guessing that the presence of a red spot or the flicking of a tail was acting as a threat signal or a courtship display, I could set about proving it.
Nor is any occasion too small to take note of, for I have known such trifles as the dropping of a gauntlet, or the flicking of a breadcrumb, when well and properly followed up, lead to a most noble spear- running.
The film has been shot with four cameras and a technical precision that makes every detail resonate: birds in flight, the sounds of passing airplanes, the flicking of a cow's ear, the beam of a distant lighthouse that flares up with the darkening of the sky.
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