heat-lightning

Flickers of searching thought sparked through the alien core like heat-lightning.

Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

Around us shimmered the pale heat-lightning of that shield.

The High Crusade Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1960

Three Presteign V-class transports, "Vega," "Vestal," and "Vorga," stood partially raised near the center of the yards, undergoing flaking and replating, as the heat-lightning flicker of torches around "Vorga" indicated.

The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

Three Presteign V-class transports, "Vega," "Vestal," and "Vorga," stood partially raised near the center of the yards, undergoing flaking and replating, as the heat-lightning flicker of torches around "Vorga" indicated.

The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

She was alarmed and confused; her telesending was like heat-lightning: ` My God! Who is he?

Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955

The usual forms of lightning are the zigzag or forked sharply defined, -- the sheet-lightning, illuminating a whole cloud, which it seems to open, -- heat-lightning, not emanating from any cloud, but apparently diffused through the air and without report.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

Then as you drive nearer and nearer, that far-off heat-lightning effect disappears and you can actually see the curve of the star-shells as they mount toward the skies over No Man's Land and fall again as gracefully as a fountain of water.

Soldier Silhouettes on our Front 1917

It reminded the other man of heat-lightning on a dark skyline.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

Then the heat-lightning smile played about the hollow face again.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

This was already the heat-lightning of the October Revolution.

From October to Brest-Litovsk Leon Davidovich Trotzky 1909