Meanings of flashing along in anglès

What with current and paddling, we were flashing along like swallows.

A procession of shadows moved flashing along the granite wall.

We were flashing along at good speed.

He looked into the muzzles of rifles, and he saw the morning sun flashing along the edges of bayonets.

It was dark, but the lights flashing along the bridge were giving her a headache and a queasy stomach.

Henry shuddered at the thought of the tomahawk flashing along every mile of a frontier so vast, and defended so thinly.

The dart's internal processor analysed the chemical and electrical reactions flashing along the nerves; it began to broadcast its own signal into the brain.

It was triumph and victory and paean in action to go flashing along over this footing, smoother than polished marble and sheenier than first-water gems.

It was a weird sight to see this sparkling ghost come suddenly flashing along out of the solid gloom and stream past like a meteor.

" Flashing along at the speed of light."