...She listened again, and once again she heard the same very earthly sounds ofgood, honest British language, not the least akin to whisperings from paradiseor flutter of angels’ wings...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...Or he might have the idea of goingback to England by aeroplane, and so having one last flutter before he foldshis wings...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Lovers flutter from one to another...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
... Only here and there the gentle frou-frou of a silk skirt, the rhythmic flutter of a fan, broke those few seconds' deadly, stony silence...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
... “Did they beat the British greatly?” King asked him, with only vague interest on his face and a prayer inside him that his heart might flutter less violently against his ribs...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...Again I waved my handkerchief, and held it between my two hands, so that it might flutter in the breeze...
W. H. G. Kingston 「The African Trader」
... After some days they let her sit by the window, and she saw Bles pass, but drew back timidly when he looked; and he saw only the flutter of her gown, and waved...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...When the young are a few days old, theyslide, scramble, or flutter down the tree trunk tothe ground below, and are led to the water...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...This is the case with the water-hen (Gallinula nesiotis) of Tristan d'Acunha, which "can flutter a little, but obviously uses its legs, and not its wings, as a mode of escape...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...But presentlyBruce's idly wandering eye was caught by a flutter of white among someboulders that clumped together on the ridge's brow farthest from thevillage...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Bruce」
...His two middle tail feathers suddenlybegin to grow, and go on growing till they become three or four timesas long as he is, and so flutter behind him in the wind like streamerswhen he flies...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
... We thought every sound was the flutter ofour parents' wings...
Lenore Elizabeth Mulets 「Stories of Birds」
...Morris, in a sort of flutter, as shehelped Sarah to seat the new arrivals...
Virginia Sharpe Patterson 「Dickey Downy」
...None moved; there was scarcely a flutter of thewings...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...When she has withdrawn her dagger from the wound, she leaves her victim where it lies and, without taking further notice of it, begins to flutter against the side of the glass...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...As if out ofthe cloud of sulphurous smoke, a showerof leaves flutter down, with a quickerpatter of dry twigs and shards of bark,and among all these a brown clod dropslifeless and inert to mother earth...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
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