She risked another pecking and stared hard into its evil orange eyes, and tried to convince herself that way down in their depths, almost beyond sight, was a strange little flicker.

There was a strange flicker across his face.

"Yet they are there," Melisendra said at his side, and through her mind he picked up the image of the valley below, not dark as he saw it, but lighted with strange flickers which, he knew, were men, and horses, and engines of war.

Primary systems shut down and Troi felt the strange flicker and hum through the soles of her feet that meant the artificial gravity was on the verge of failing.

Aitrus saw how Jadaris stared at the dagger; saw the strange flicker in the muscles of his neck, the sudden change in his eyes, and knew that this had finally convinced him.

There was a last glimpse of a yellow plain, that was the sky of Azlaroc seen from above, and then only strange flickers of light from the abnormal space they were traversing briefly, like a cloud.

One day Biro experienced a strange flicker of light that crossed his right eye; within a few months he learned he had PNH, a degenerative illness caused by the genetic mutation of bone-marrow-stem cells that afflicts fewer than one person in a million per year worldwide.

The cause of its strange flicker is unknown.

"They do not permit it," he'd said, as his eyes widened in that strange flicker of fear.

Her tongue moved suddenly between her teeth and touched her lower lip in a strange flicker that sent a mild shock through my body.