Then he glimpsed the flickering beam of her signalling projector.

A flickering beam shot out, another, ten more.

Beneath the wildly flickering beam of his headlamp, Margo could see Snow's eyes widen.

They are the faint and flickering beams of the smoky hurricane lanterns that, by dusk, are all that preserve large patches of this city from total darkness.

With the call signal ringing in his ears, Casey set about the delicate task of guiding the LC along the flickering beam, hoping to contact those transmitting it.

High on the back wall was the window of the projection room, where strange machinery aimed its flickering beams at the big screen and by sheer magic produced talking, moving, living pictures.

With just a single flickering beam from our tuk-tuk - a motorised rickshaw - to guide us, we could barely make out the potholed road ahead.

They are pitched to the public ear, and to be successful they must anticipate the psychology of an audience: the flickering beam of attention, the shifting posterior.

Through the half-open door of the cellar ahead he saw the flickering beam of a flashlight.

Shea Stadium, admittedly a flickering beam this year, will be extinguished like a sputtering candle.