Springfield knew the flame of Grant's life was flickering dangerously low, and that time was short.
Heat flickered low in her belly.
He writes: "We are home now though our flame flickers low.
The firelight flickered low; activity in the camp dwindled.
Still, it does no harm occasionally to face the truth: even he sometimes had to produce music when the fires of inspiration flickered low.
Alf waited until the Bishop was comfortable, half-dreaming over his breviary but still awake, with the lamp flickering low.
The candles, flickering low, turned the long basement room to a maze of shadows.
Their fire flickered low, then died.
The fires are flickering low.
And then Freelorn looked at Herewiss, and the joy in his eyes dimmed and flickered low.