The needle was nowhere to be seen, flicked away by the motion of his own hand.

He flicked the switch by the door, and a bare overhead bulb came on.

I flicked on the light by the side of the bed, and glanced across at the bedside clock.

Elaine twitched at my use of the word, flicking a look around her as if by reflex.

His blue eyes flicked to the wall by the small wooden door.

Suddenly they began to flick out of sight by twos and threes.

That shot flicked the ground by the feet of the running man, but he never stayed.

"Oh, no," she said, flicked again on the raw by that assumption.

He flicked a lazy tail by way of answer.

She flicked a glance toward the shower, mildly troubled by his lack of response.