Then he decided it was a trick played by the shimmering flames.

I stretched my hand towards the shimmering flames.

Twrch slept at my feet, the king rested fitfully on his white oxhide nearby, and Tegid sat beside me, staring into the shimmering flames, brooding in silence.

While in the main faint and translucent, at ground level, the sphere appeared as an ephemeral (perhaps 15 seconds) wall of shimmering flames from the outside.

I cannot say how long we stood there, the three of us in those shadows, and how utterly still they seemed to me, only the shimmering flames seeming to have life behind them.

Burke scowled at the candle, its flame shimmering over the mahogany clothespress.

Duncan wondered if he could possibly vault over the cauldron, but he couldn't see the far side through the shimmering flames and smoke-smeared air.

One after the other, the three ascent modules lifted from the surface of Mars on tongues of shimmering flame.