Word: flashly
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...only a brief return, a sudden coming, followed immediately by a sudden disappearance; a single apparition, an arrival and departure, with a single word as Thou comest and goest, a single sign, an admonition, a lightning flash in the sky, a light in the night, an opening of the heavens, a splendor in the night ? one hour alone of Thy eternity, one word alone for all Thy silence...
...charged with thunder and no man can tell when the first bolt of lightning will flash across the Mexican political sky, now dark with clouds...
...spectators got their money's worth. When a bomb started the race, the pilots swooped into the air like bullets. The machines seemed to flash across the course. On the last heat, in going round the pylons the pilots banked so sharply that they seemed to rest in the air on their wing tips...
...1G.B. is slated to be the sensational tennis fight of the four singles matches to be played this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock on the Divinity Courts for the Jackson Cup. Whitbeck and Wheeler, both seeded men, the former the ex-star of Loomis School, the latter the Yale flash of a few years ago, will both step on the court with a series of easily gained victories behind them, and with little apparent advantage either...
...camera sixty-five feel long, used for photographing the sun during eclipse was among the apparatus used by the expedition, which has been called by Dr. Miller the "best equipped single expedition that has ever gone out to observe an eclipse of the sun." Other apparatus included a two flash spectroscope with which to obtain spectra of the corona,--the gaseous haze surrounding the dark disc during totality; an Einstein camera, the gift of Professor C. L. Poor of Columbia, and especially adapted to proving the Einstein gravitational theory, and a new type of interferometer called the "etalon", designed...