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Select the correct answer.
Read the sentence from paragraph 9.
It flashed across my mind at that moment that as those on board the Abraham Lincoln, having once seen the effect of Ned
Land's harpoon when it struck the Nautilus, could not but have concluded their enemy was no monster of the deep-though
indeed a monster of man's contriving--the warships of all nations would now be on the look-out for the Nautilus, and we on
board it could scarcely hope for mercy.
Which definition provides the correct denotative meaning for the word flashed in the passage?
OA flickered quickly
sparked boldly
OC. glimmered slightly
OD. appeared suddenly
B.