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