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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Flicker (Verb)

Flickering like a flame in the wind.
—Anonymous

Flicker like a lamp.
—Sigmund Krasinski

Flickering like dying lamps in sepulchres.
—Friedrich von Schiller

Flickers like a blown-out flame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Flickering like a wind-bewildered leaf.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Flicker like fire.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Flickering like a casement ’gainst the sun.
—Charles T. Turner

Flickering like a flame, half choked by wind and dust.
—George Sylvester Viereck