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wavered in their frank upward look
Dead silence fell between them, and her soft eyes never wavered in their frank, upward look at him.
— from The Senator's Bride by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

which in the flickering uncertain light
So said, so done; and as the torch kindled and blazed up the pair found themselves standing in a rugged rock passage some five feet wide and about eight feet high, with a perfectly smooth floor which, in the flickering, uncertain light of the torch, presented the appearance of having been brought into this condition by human agency.
— from Harry Escombe: A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Harry Collingwood

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