flackering

Updated: May 4, 2025

Then the flackering quacking call of a covey of ducks with a hum of wings right over our shoulders; then no sound but the dip of our paddles and the drip and ripple of the dead waters among the reeds. Suddenly there lifted against the lonely red sunset sky a lob stick a dark evergreen stripped below the tip to mark some Indian camping place, or vow, or sacred memory. We steered for it.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - The Canadian Commonwealth

At the same instant the blinding smoke burst into a million tongues of flackering flame, and I saw the fire not where I had ever seen it before not creeping along among the scrub but up aloft, a hundred and fifty feet overhead. It had caught the dry bituminous tops of the higher boughs, and was flying along from tree-top to tree-top like lightning.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

Even in the absence of sexual excitement there is a vague affection, occurring in both married and unmarried women, and not, it would seem, necessarily hysterical, characterized by quivering or twitching of the vulva; I am told that this is popularly termed "flackering of the shape" in Yorkshire and "taittering of the lips" in Ireland.

Havelock Ellis - Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 : Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy