He had walked up and down the piazza two or three times, when through the open door he caught the flutter of a garment on the stairway.

He had her in his arms; he felt against his breast the wild flutter of her heart, against his face the soft brushing of her hair.

Looking at his father he saw a nervous flutter in his cheeks, his lips hard set, his brow drawn down; and the rigidity of the profile was such that Jack was struck by the shiver of a thought that it must have been like his own as others said it was when he had gripped Pedro Nogales's arm.

Lowering over a childless house on the edge of a village. Were times when Mrs. Hanna Burkhardt, who lived on the edge of a village in one such childless house, could in her fancy hear the flutter of wings, too.

It is an ideal day for cricket, with a fresh breeze blowing, just sufficient to temper the hot afternoon sunshine and cause a flutter of cricket-shirts and boundary flags.

Press not her flight, while yet her feeble nerves Refuse their office, and uncertain life Still labours with imaginary woe; Here let me tend her with officious care, Watch each unquiet flutter of the breast, And joy to feel the vital warmth return, To see the cloud forsake her kindling cheek, And hail the rosy dawn of rising health.

But the suspicion brought its wild flutter; she sprang up and grew rigid in tense fright; she felt a strange, glad rush of joy as she saw his hat bobbing up and toward her along the mountain flank.

This event created quite a flutter of excitement among friends.

A carometa was moving slowly toward him, down the Calle Real, and he fancied the flutter of a handkerchief from its side window.

AMELIORATION OF THE DEPRESSED CLASSES The resolution of the Senate of the Gujarat National University in regard to Mr. Andrews' question about the admission of children of the 'depressed' classes to the schools affiliated to that University is reported to have raised a flutter in Ahmedabad.

Now, however, there was a perceptible decline in these signs of hospitality, and Undine, on calling one day on the Duchess, noticed that her appearance sent a visible flutter of discomfort through the circle about her hostess's chair.

Some four years older than herself, he was a tall, stalwart, soldierly man, blue-eyed and auburn-haired, an aristocrat to his finger-tips, a daring horseman, a poet, and a man of rare culturejust the man to set any woman's heart a-flutter, as he had already done in most of the capitals of the Continent.

His followers would not brook the very flutter of her dress against their pure garments.

I'm familiar with most parts of the United States, but Chazy Junction gets my flutters.

As for Ella Wright, the physicians and nurses worked over her long and earnestly, and were on the point of giving her up when at last a flutter of her eyelids was seen.

Some say worms win resurrection, With white wings beating flitter-flutter, But wings or a sound sleep, why should I care?

Ralph leaned a little nearer, and for an instant his hand imagined the flutter of hers.

AMOROUS ANTITHESES When a Marguerite plucks the petals of a marguerite, muttering "he loves mehe loves me not," her heart flutters in momentary anguish with every "not," till the next petal soothes it again.

"I was not aware you knew Mrs. Ford," said Mrs. Markham, observing the little flutter in Julia's cheeks, and thinking there was a meaning in Bart's persiflage.

Although watching eagerly I perceived no flutter of a skirt in the wind, but the Spanish looking man emerged from below, and clung to the rail for several minutes before we were ordered from deck.

She was too humble and too modest fully to accept the delicious flattery which he had breathed, in implying that her hand had had power to unseal the fountains of good in his soul; but still it thrilled through all the sensitive strings of her nature a tremulous flutter of suggestion.

But on rode Duke Beltane, his lion banner a-flutter, in and through the enemy's staggering columns, and ever as he charged thus upon their left, so charged Sir Jocelyn upon their right.

Then, that no look of shy happiness, no downward quiver of the maiden eyelids might be lostfor the morsel, now it was within his grasp, was one to linger over and dwell onSir George, his own eyes shining with eagerness, walked his horse forward, his gaze greedily seeking the flutter of her kerchief or the welcome of her hand.

I sent for a tailor who was employed by the nobility, and ordered such a suit of clothes as I had often looked on with involuntary submission, and am ashamed to remember with what flutters of expectation I waited for the hour, when I should issue forth in all the splendour of embroidery.

I should much like to try Monty Carlo, and 'ave a fair flutter for once, But I fear it won't run to it, pardner; my boss is the dashdest old dunce. Won't raise me to three quid a week, the old skinflint.