flash set
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A blinding flash set his horses on edge, their sensitive nerves quivering in every flank.
From The Shagganappi by E. Pauline Johnson
The rain was falling in torrents, and even the slight discharges of electricity that followed the one big flash set their flesh to tingling, and made them fear that worse was to follow.
From Two Boy Gold Miners or, Lost in the Mountains by Frank V. Webster
You, 'too old to fight,'—and so in a flash set forward into old age,—are nevertheless finding your pen tipped with passion instead of with philosophy.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
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