The last of the red light vanished, and the pent-up beams sprang out of the flashlights.

A beam of light sprang from The Shadow's hand.

Then he touched a stud, and a beam of intense heat sprang from the muzzle.

A beam of light sprang from the bezel.

From the center of this flat summit, the opalescent beam sprang upward into the night.

Her helmet beam sprang forth.

Once again, the strobing beams sprang forward from our disrupters, sparkling evilly all over the fleeing ship's tail section.

Other beams sprang into life, winking like pale blue eyes through the dust and killing all they touched.

A thin, laserlike beam sprang from the violet end and lanced into shadowed complexity.

From a third assault ship, a beam sprang down and the entire middle of Newton disappeared in a thermonuclear inferno.