Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Time to be taken from the flash of the pistol...
...lightning's flash, the pale moonbeams...
...straighten up and sit for an instant as rigid and still as so many marble statues. "Ready!" says the coxswain; the eight backs reach out. "Go!" Up come the heads together, and away they go up the river, around the bend with a long swinging stroke, the crimson blades flash in the sunlight as they dip the water, and the regular "swash, swash," of the stroke floats down the river. It was high tide, and from the balcony I could see the boat glide past the piles and through the bridge, shoot on past the gas-house and the upper...
They dance and wave in the meshes and flash in the pallid gleam...
...waters flash in the sunlight, and billow about their beam...