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  • Pennons aloft, metal aflash, they made a brave sight.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • Pennons aloft, metal aflash, they made a brave sight.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

  • Thunder-heads with lightning swords aflash on their brows grumbled and pounded the badlands, reminding me that trouble was not far away.

    The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984

  • Both moons rose high above him and hills aflash with dew.

    The Queen of Air and Darkness Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1973

  • Outside, the garden lay aflash with dew under Lythyr and a sickle Neihevin.

    Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

  • As Mr Fosset had said, there was a dead calm on the bosom of the deep, for the slight swell that remained after the gale on the previous evening, even up to the time of my going down below, had quite disappeared, the surface of the water being as smooth as glass as far as the horizon line and all aflash now with the rosy hue of sunrise to the eastward.

    The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

  • She turned her laughing face towards him, violet eyes, flushed cheeks, golden hair, white teeth -- everything aflash with instant gratitude.

    The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

  • This was the more to the writer's credit in that his brain was seething with impressions, luminous with pictures, aflash with odds and ends of minor but significant things heard and seen and felt.

    Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • "What then?" she cried at last, eyes aflash through lingering tears.

    The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • "Forces me?" roared the King, half rising, his eyes aflash.

    The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

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