"It fluttered wildly in the right direction.

He stood up, and his bare feet fluttered up and down feebly, but with huge delight.

~Polly.~ She fluttered gaily down the hill That merry, dimpled lass

And Tharagavverug swung clumsily away, uttering one fearful cry like the sound of a great church bell that had become possessed of a soul that fluttered upward from the tombs at nightan evil soul, giving the bell a voice.

Once, on a very warm day, a great golden butterfly, floating by on his large lovely wings, fluttered down softly and lit on the proud blade, who felt so much prouder when he did it that she trembled for joy.

What Andy had said was the truth, for the craft they were chasing after had taken a sudden dip, and was fluttering downward.

She told me that, although born in Spain, she had been, as a child, in Rome; that it was she who preached that day at Ara Coeli, "an orphan, who would have perished of hunger had not a despised Jew given it shelter and food until it could flutter forth over the wild, restless sea."

The last Bird Fairy fluttered noiselessly in.

The insect fluttered lightly through the chamber, and settled on the snowy head of Doctor Heidegger.

"As many knew him for a Tory, his tale found ready belief, and, when interrogated as to the numbers of the advancing host, he gave a warning frown and pointed significantly to the countless leaves that fluttered on the branches overhead.

A small greenfly had got entangled in a spider's web, and was fluttering its tiny wings violently to effect an escape.

Then her lids fluttered down wearily, as if to veil some crushing agony within her, and she stepped aside.

Not another sound he uttered, but his feathers proudly fluttered. "Ah!"

At the same time, an ensign of a similar ominous colour, rose from her poop, and, fluttering darkly and fiercely for a moment, it became fixed at the end of the gaff.

If built on settled thought, this constancy Not idly flutters on a boastful tongue, Why, when destruction rag'd around our walls, Why fled this haughty heroine from the battle?

At a quarter to four the Kaiser was in the royal castle, and immediately the Imperial Standard was fluttering aloft.

"Maybe not," replied Sinclair, "but that's the man I" "You lie!" cried Arizona huskily, and his fat, swift hand fluttered nervously around the butt of the revolver.

A sudden deafness struck me that, commingling all sounds, rendered them unintelligible; a film came over my eyes; my heart fluttered strangely, and my limbs trembled so that I thought I should have sunk on the floor; but, making a violent effort, I supported myself; and in a few seconds these agitating sensations so far subsided as to allow of my retiring from the bar with tolerable steadiness and composure.

Her lids fluttered open and she saw the gambler.

The cheering along the west side of the great field was now continuous, and the leaders, their crimson badges fluttering agitatedly, were waving their arms like tireless semaphores and exciting the supporters of Harwell to greater and greater efforts.

Simpson's heart fluttered disagreeably as he watched it.

They made the theatre possible in France, leavened the social life of the half-world, fluttered conspicuously and often disastrously through circles of more sedate society, had their portraits in every Salon, their photographs in every issue of the fashionable journals.

And the dogs were either invited to ride with Jones, or were permitted to get to the bottom as best pleased them with Ben, which meant a scamper through fields of blue forget-me-nots and purple lupine, over damp and mossy dells, and along the slopes where tiny birds were hidden in cozy nests about which the frightened parents fluttered divertingly.

We waited and quartered the ground back and forth for a long hour, while the rain fell and the seas slapped along our sides, and the steam fluttered drearily through the escapes.

Kate's heart was fluttering, her mouth dry.