31.   The red candles flickered as sirens on trucks only a few feet away started to blare.

32.   Outside the Brookline clinics, where two women were slain and five other people were wounded Friday, votive candles flickered and flowers lay on the stairs.

33.   A candle flickered nearby.

34.   Beneath a canopy of suddenly bright stars over San Juan, candles flickered in windows and drivers negotiated streets made unfamiliar by fallen trees and the enveloping dark.

35.   Candles flicker by the fireplace.

36.   Candles flicker in the windows.

37.   Candles flickered in the quiet temple before an offering of apples and pineapples.

38.   Candles flickered in the square where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated two years ago while tens of thousands of Israelis converged Saturday for a rally remembering the slain prime minister.

39.   Some candles flickered in the breeze.

40.   The candles flickered in the chill northeast wind and went out.