premium before the week's out; and if you've got any money to spare, guv'nor, I should recommend you to have a little flutter; for it's a certainty.

The weazened reader rose in a nervous flutter, underwent his introduction to Rudolph with as much bashful agony as a school-girl, mumbled a few words in German, and instantly took refuge in his tattered Graphic.

Talk lower so the teacher will not hear you," said Cordelia, with a sudden flutter of the breath.

But the faint flutter went on, and she gave way so that he might be borne up the stairs, and running before, she told them where to lay him down.

But lo! a gentle flutter of the leaves By eagerness unconscious caused, to her Revealed the huntsman take his deadly aim.

" "I shouldn't have cared for Newport or the Springs, father, truly," said Leslie, with a little hopeful flutter of eagerness in her voice; "but the real mountains,O father!"

There is no truth of representation, no strong internal feelingbut a continual flutter and display of affected airs and graces, like a finished coquette, who hides the want of symmetry by extravagance of dress, and the want of passion by flippant forwardness and unmeaning sentimentality.

"Why?" "Because" He caught the frightened flutter of her voice again.

The small man had at first seemed also to be lifeless, but Amos had detected some slight flutter of his heart, and the faintest haze was left upon the watch glass which was held before his mouth.

Yes, and there, high in the clouds of rigging, no longer a vague pink flutter now, but brightly red-white-and-blue and smilingly angrywhat a strange home-coming for it!

Her smile softened to a sweet, sad flutter of lip.

Not knowing any one there, Miss Lydia, in a mild flutter of wonder, sat down by her table and opened the letter with her scissors.

There was a queer flutter of helplessness in her voice.

Hazlitt, himself a Radical, wrote of Shelley: "He has a fire in his eye, a fever in his blood, a maggot in his brain, a hectic flutter in his speech, which mark out the philosophic fanatic.

Racing blood, bursting heart, labored pang of chest, prickling, burning skin, a queer involuntary flutter of muscles, like a palsythese attested to the instinctive primitive nature of my state.

A keen social flutter ensued and presently the wedding came offstop!

Something intenser and more truly living was taking the place of the mere flutter and flash and grace of effect.

I have not the slightest doubt that her heart is fluttering towards me, as a moth flutters into the candle.

There was not one that spread such delicate and graceful tresses on the breeze as our White Birch; not one that fanned it with such a gentle, musical flutter of silver-lined leaves; not one that wore a bodice of such virgin white from head to foot, or that showed such long, tapering fingers against the sky.

He turned the pages over with a noisy flutter, but made no answer.

I have lived both at the Hawes and Burford in a perpetual flutter, on the heels, as it seemed, of some adventure that should justify the place; but though the feeling had me to bed at night and called me again at morning in one unbroken round of pleasure and suspense, nothing befell me in either worth remark.

The audience was still in a pleasant flutter of commotion over the unique act that had caught their fancy.

But, at any rate, polite flutters of applause punctuated the talk, and at the end M. Cestre asked his audience to rise as he paid his final tribute to the people now fighting the common battle with France.

A quick dip in pure, cold watera flutter of soft garments as the radiant wings cast off the crystal dropsand she was ready to meet the full glory of the sunlight.

Their raiment flutters, the bells chime; the chorus of their gladness falls like voices through a star-lit heaven, half-heard in dreams and everlastingly remembered.