in a flash

• “And it kept me from thinking about Stewart, and how he'd drowned in a flash flood, and about his partner Annie Segura, who'd gone off looking for him and never been found.”

  Futures Imperfect

• “He was one of the first pair of scouts on Boohte, "he explained to Ev." Got caught in a flash flood and swept smack into a hill.”

  Futures Imperfect

• “You could tell in a flash it was superbly designed for its purpose, a thin ridge running each side of the gently curving blade, reaching the tip—kissaki, he knew it to be called.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set

• “Very soon there were dozens of identical slender hands, and in a flash his mind pictured himself stark naked on a vast table, with every one of the miraculously unclothed Pelagias crawling all over him, engaged upon a delicious assault of breasts, hands, and hot, wet, nuzzling lips.”

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

• “I really hired Sol because he reminded me of some one I'd known and liked, though I couldn't just remember at the time who it was; but one day, after he'd been with me about a week, it came to me in a flash that he was the living image of old Bucker, a billy-goat I'd set aheap of store by when I was a boy.”

  Old Gorgon Graham

• “Images flooded his mind, a violent, churning current of sensory detail that his llygad-trained mind was able to channel and process without tumbling beneath the surface like a hiker swept up in a flash flood.”

  Simon & Schuster: Etched in Bone

• “He wouldn't give her a name even if he had one to recommend, but if he told her that, she'd be out of the room in a flash and gone who-knew-where.”

  Tender Rebel

• “She consented; and instantly, as in a flash of lightning, he transported the prince into the highest heaven, and Somannass found himself seated on a glorious throne by the side of P'hra Indara the Divine, before whom the hosts of heaven bowed in homage.”

  The English Governess at the Siamese Court

• “It irritated Carridin that "Lady Shiaine" would be on her knees in a flash if the straggly-haired old beggar entered the room, but for him sat with her legs crossed, smiling and twitching her slippered foot as if impatient to be done.”

  A Crown of Swords

• “Back in a flash came the empurpled visage and the flashing eye.”

  Killer Dolphin

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