144 collocations for flutters

The cloud was made all of little birds that kept fluttering their wings and talking to each other, and the fluttering of their wings made a wind in her face, and the wind made her very happy, and the moon kept looking through the birds quite close to them, and smiling at her, and she saw the face of the man in the moon quite plain.

Donnegan with money, with well-fitted clothes, and with a few notorious escapades behind himyes, Donnegan with such a flying start might flutter the heart of Nelly Lebrun for a moment.

At one end stood the target, at the other a tent of striped canvas, from the pole of which fluttered many-colored flags and streamers.

He took the book on his knees, fluttering the leaves between thumb and finger.

" The slim, gray-clad figure in the seat beside him laughed softly and fluttered a white handkerchief as the last car went on.

And it was nothing to her that the air was less bright there, for her mind was full of light, so that, though her heart still fluttered a little with all that had passed, she had no longing to return, nor to shorten the way, but went by the lower road sweetly, with the stranger hanging upon her, who was stronger and taller than she.

" Miriam nodded, and kissed the frail hands that fluttered round her head.

Oh, Esther, don't keep it away from megive it to me now!" Bitter, angry tears filled the girl's eyes as she took the pleading, fluttering hands in hers.

When the conductor came through for tickets, she discovered that she had mislaid hers and it was necessary to flutter the pages of every book before the missing bit of pasteboard finally dropped from between the leaves of the last one opened.

And one very lovely afternoon in May, when the Park from his windows looked like a green forest, and puff on puff of perfumed air fluttered the curtains at his opened windows, he picked up his gloves and stick, put on his hat, and went out to walk in the Park; and when he had walked sufficiently he sat down on a bench in a flowery, bushy nook on the edge of a bridle path.

THE PHEASANT-HEN [Fluttering hither and thither feverishly.]

Some timorous families did not go to bed on the night of the 31st of July; fear drove sleep from their eyes, and they awaited with fluttering pulse the hour of midnight, fearing lest the same bell which sounded the jubilee of the slaves might toll the death knell of the masters.[A]

A profound stillness suddenly fell upon the wigwam; the men ceased to talk and the ladies to flutter their fans; one could distinctly hear the scratching of pencils and the ticking of telegraph instruments on the reporters' tables.

Over their heads fluttered a cloud of snow-white feathers, and each herald bore in his hand a long silver trumpet, which he blew musically.

They fluttered round this hidden thing of which they were aspects, fugitive interpretations, no one of them bringing complete revelation.

In his hand the Knight held a great spear, from the point of which fluttered a blood-red pennant as broad as the palm of one's hand.

Of bright carnation is the web, enriched with saffron streaks, And for favors there are fluttering veils upon their helmet peaks.

Bambi fluttered the joy-bringing letter above her head and circled the breakfast-room in a whirl of happiness.

She glanced at him momentarily, under fluttering lids.

The mighty square, when he arrived, was changed into a bower; And every knight wore fluttering plumes and every dame a flower.

Outside, the weaving, fluttering light held the world.

Further away, Granny TILTON flutters her linen with spiteful flourish, nettled by the vituperation of Granny HASTINGS, who hangs up her Commercial clothes on the line.

The woman's eyelids fluttered for an instant, her lips moving dryly; but she made no sound.

Then came Dorothy, her sweet face looking most coquettish under her Ranelagh mob of gauze, the ribbons crossed beneath her chin and fluttering half a yard behind.

Will you wed no man but me?" She fluttered the cherry ribbons on the bonnet and fixed a stray curl in front of one ear.

144 collocations for  flutters