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Example sentences for "flutterings"

Lexicographically close words:
flutings; flutist; flutter; fluttered; fluttering; flutters; fluttery; fluty; fluuius; fluvial
  1. Busy and serious beings these, who would not be deterred by the flutterings of the doubtless ornamental but completely useless.

  2. Such flutterings of the heart were not altogether favorable to that austere program of literary industry which the ambitious young dramatist had set for himself.

  3. Every spring those wild flutterings shook her; every spring, this sweet linnet girl did migrate inland.

  4. Peter's sobbing had died down to husky flutterings of breath, but he kept his face averted from the man at the other side of the table.

  5. Yet it was only a bird; such things happened continually--they had to be: but he could not forget the flutterings of the dying thrush.

  6. The plumage of the birds was dull and torn; they told a tale of past battles, of dismal flutterings against the bars of their prison-house.

  7. In the dimness of early morning when errant bats flitted home to cling to the ridge-pole, squeaking and fussy flutterings denoted unwonted disturbance.

  8. Once there were flutterings among the nutmeg pigeons in the star-proof jungle of the crowded inlet to the south.

  9. She thrusts down these queer doubts, does not listen to the flutterings at the heart, ignores the little pinpricks of conscience.

  10. Now and again queer doubts assail her, and she has strange flutterings at the heart, and little pinpricks of conscience.

  11. Great were the flutterings over the seating of John Morrissey, the "Wild Irishman," mistaken for his namesake, the New York pugilist.

  12. There was audible the flutterings of all the distressed garments, with little busy pauses.

  13. The masterly possessor of the contrite heart betrayed no signs of its flutterings and its exultant boundings at being once more in paradise.

  14. How they jostle us, these women, with their timid little flutterings when we are trying to put a case before them in our manlike way!


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