Aflicker

After fifteen or twenty seconds, Lily and Scheherazade (with Keith somehow bracketed in the middle of it) were swiftly and surreally engulfed by a swarm of young men, not boys or youths, but young men in sharp shirts and pressed slacks, whooping, pleading, cackling and all aflicker, like a telekinetic card trick of kings and knaves, shuffling and riffling and fanning out under the streetlamps ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Before entering the forest, we saw an impressive cell of mini thunderheads, gorgeously mauve and dimly aflicker from within, standing on the phony horizon like purple-robed clerics of Doom. ❋ Joe Sullivan (2010)

Sunlight drenched us, though more than a third of the sky was black, tumid with rain, intermittently aflicker with electricity. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Suddenly overwhelmed, cold lightnings aflicker in him, the boy stared past his father, outward and outward. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1998)

Because he had come down at Ilitu's head, he saw the face inverted, a chiaroscuro behind the hyalon, lights and shadows aflicker as his lamps moved. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

It displayed a schematic of the sock ahead, aflicker with fields of fire. ❋ Cook, Glen (1988)

Jets aflicker, the boat staggered drunkenly over the moonscape. ❋ ANDERSON, Poul (1981)

One was scarfaced, athletic, his tailtip restlessly aflicker. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1978)

Then finally -- it was dark outside, the hot still dark of summer's end, heat lightning aflicker beyond stockade and skeletal trees -- he summoned her; but when she entered the office, he rose and said: "Let us go to my private quarters." ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1969)

It was after all Fritzing who had behaved with the braveness of a lion the night before in that matter of the policeman; and it was he who had asked in stern tones of rebuke, when her courage seemed aflicker, whether she repented. ❋ Elizabeth Von Arnim (1903)

The dark interior of the shed was aflicker with white wings. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

The butternut-colored room still exudes a warmth that's especially cozy when the fireplace is aflicker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It seems to me, therefore, that the instinctive although seldom articulated purpose of holding a funeral or memorial service is to reunite the people most intimate with the deceased, and to collectively rekindle in them all, for one last time, the special living flame that represents the essence of that beloved person, profiting directly or indirectly from the presence of one another, feeling the shared presence of that person in the brains that remain, and this solidifying to the maximal extent possible those secondary personal gemmae that remain aflicker in all these different brains.