dartle
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Sometimes, on hot summer nights, clouds form angrily in the distance; vivid flashes dartle hither and about, which serve to intensify the evening darkness.
From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath
For then 'twere meet that ravens, as they fly, Should dartle from white pinions a white sheen, Or swans turn black from seed of black, or be Of any single varied dye thou wilt.
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
He was dressed in the latest suit produced by Schaffner and Marx; he wore a tie of variegated silk which, like Browning's star, "dartled" now red, now blue.
From Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt
The ruddy lights dartled as he slowly turned the jewel around.
From Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath
O golden spear that dartled through the darkness!
From Goblins and Pagodas by John Gould Fletcher
The silk handkerchief, which protruded carefully from his breast pocket, also "dartled."
From Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt
Another lover, in My Star, pours lyric disdain upon his friends for whose purblind common-sense vision the star which to him "dartled red and blue," now a bird, now a flower, was just—a star.
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
The lizards sun themselves on the rock walls, dartling into slim crevices when peoples or animals near.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
The lap-lap of the water, the long slow rise and fall, and the dartling flying-fish apparently claimed their attention.
From Parrot & Co. by Harold MacGrath
Her gown, what there was of it, was of black gauze emblazoned with dartling sequins of deep blue.
From The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
The jealous eye of Mex was constantly dartling, and her ear was alert to catch every syllable Pierce uttered.
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable
