Flashings [noun]

The first thing that attracted my eye was the myriad flashings of rifle fire in the dimness of the breaking day.

Some parts of it are the result of serious reflection; others the flashings of lucid intervals.

Low mutterings of thunder and occasional flashings of lightning bore out this belief.

Flowers with crimson flashings lovely in the forest of her tresses, haunt of that wild creature love's desire.

It was like a shimmer of moon-beams, and her hair held the diamond flashings of a hundred tiny stars.

We, as personalities, float like fog-wisps through glooms and darknesses and light-flashings.

The flames of hell are only the flashings of the exterminating, vindictive glance which faith casts on unbelievers.

We move away from the aerodrome at once, and the occasional red flashings of bursting bombs show us that we are wise.

With flashings of heavy light, the water unrolled, and sank back from the beach.

The place was alive with electricity, and flashings kept me awake for hours.