" So long as they were homeward-bound I did not care; but it gave me a queer fluttering of the heart to think that Elspeth but yesterday should have been near this perilous Border.

Away went Tom Walker, dashing down the streets, his white cap bobbing up and down, his morning-gown fluttering in the wind, and his steed striking fire out of the pavement at every bound.

Emily looked up from her work in silence, but with some little flutterings at the heart.

Then at frightful speed he raced to the top of his web and disappeared in the woodwork of the arbour, drawing the new filament tight round the victim, which continued its flutterings for a little time and then gave up the ghost.

Nevertheless, he went to the interview moved by certain emotional flutterings against which circumstance had guarded him ever since his boyhood.

"Be ready all, to meeting go; Perhaps I may not come A curious fluttering near my heart Calls me to stay at home.

There was the same booth, the same little flag fluttering on the top, and the same obliging proprietor.