Forbes could not follow even the flutter of her veil.
They will flutter off before the hunter can get his long pole within reach, whereas with a very brilliant light, he may approach almost near enough to lay his hands upon them.
O that I were there that I might carry, Might share that bitter load in grief, in pride!
Next, to the sole, trilling flute And your own subdued laughterFlutter all in throngs and mazes, Chase in streams of ardent faces, With bright eyes and oped mouth mute.
Barbara had dealt with many men afflicted in this manner, and the flutter of anticipation that came with his urgent plea to see her was tempered by experience.
As she entered in her sweeping golden gown the sight of Monty Brewster at the other end of the room gave her a flutter at the heart.
Cecilia's heart gave the little pleasurable flutter which the heart must feel at the love dramas of other people, however painful.
STONE Since in the flutter of her spirit caused by the words of Mrs. Hughs, Cecilia felt she must do something, she decided to change her dress.
As his eye followed the track thus far he saw the flutter of what seemed a scarlet banner; but on looking longer discovered it was the gay saddle-cloth of a mule, from which the rider had apparently dismounted.
There was no chirp of night bird, or flutter of owl's wing, no plash of duck or cry of loon.
He heard the scurrying flight of a starved wood-rat, a flutter of loose papers, and then the silence of death fell about him.
There was a ghastly cry that was like the cry of neither bird nor beast, a weak flutter of wings, and Gargantua of the Air staggered up into the treetops and fell with a crash among the thick boughs of the spruce.
How charming the simple German ways are,' cried Mrs. Harvey-Browne in a great flutter to me while the toying was going on.
There was no flutter beneath the hand seeking the heart.
The whisper ran through the airless, squalid rooms, causing a flutter among the caged inhabitants.
It rushed past them, causing Paula's dress, hair, and ribbons toflutter violently, and blowing up the fallen leaves in a shower over their shoulders.
A little higher and we stood on the very summit of the pass, marked by a pole with streamers, which flap and flutter in the wind.
Only the yaks delight in such weather; they grunt and snort with pleasure when the long black fringes of hair on their flanks flutter in the gusts.
A similar rosette also adorns the root of the tail, and from it ribands and cross strips running along the flanks of the horse are attached to the saddle, and flutter in the wind.
Bagcham is the name of a dancer in a frightful devil's mask; as he circles over the quadrangle, pieces of coloured cloth flutter about on all sides.
I will not fly away, but only flutter about for a few hours, and then hop meekly into the cage.
At any rate, he waved back, and as the carriage disappeared from sight he thought he caught a flutter of white meant for him alone.
The yellow leaves hung on the trees ready to flutter down at the slightest puff of air; the great bushes of Michaelmas daisies in the kitchen-garden were making their last show of flowers.
So we set off, I in a little flutter of a desire to make myself agreeable, but wishing that my companion were not quite so tall; for she was above me in height.
With flutter of swift wings and songs Together rose the feathered throngs, And singing scattered far apart; Deep peace was in St. Francis' heart.
Every flutter of the wing, Every note of song we sing, Every murmur, every tone, Is of love and love alone.
The mariners shout, The ships swing about, The yards are all hoisted, The sails flutter out.
The eagerly awaited migration took place in September, and Schiller entered the Saxon capital, which was to be his home for the next two years, in a flutter of joyous anticipation.
The court was in a flutterover the visit of a Russian prince for whose reception great preparations had been made.
I sped them over it in all directions, casting fifty and sixty feet of line, and admiring the soft flutter with which they dropped on the edge of the ripple or the open water.
A group of gay and laughing women, with their aphrodisiac rustle of silk and flutter of lace, floated carelessly past.
But a sudden glint and flutter of light reminded him of his danger.
Then he looked deeper, with what was still again a flutter of enigmatical fear about his heart, for that twin and ghostlike glow which had filled him with such precipitate terror.
It is impossible for me to talk with you while you flutter about in this way.
Oh, believe it, throbbing pulses flutter under folds of starch, And the Dons are human-hearted if the ladies' smiles be arch.
But that was enough for Koot--it was prompt answer to his prayer; for where do the jays quarrel and fight and flutter but on the trail?
By day, the grouse may utter a lonely cluck-cluck, or the snowbuntings chirrup and twitter and flutter from drift to hedge-top, or the saucy jay shriek some scolding impudence.
A lot of streamers made a flutter as of little white, red, yellow birds amongst the brown ridges of roofs.
Her tenderness hovered over him like a flutterof wings.
The Virgin floats upborne by rosy clouds, flocks of pink cherubs flutter at her feet waving palm-branches.
Rude little birds have built their nests in the beautiful fretted rafters, and flutter in and out as busy as brokers.
