...All were in a flutter and made haste to relieve him, and during the three days he lived after that on which he made his will he fainted away very often...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...revolotear, to flutter (or fly) about; to flutter, hover; subst...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
... stony cliffs the gates of paradise? Was thefragrant breath of the breeze suddenly caused by the 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」
...Long after we were beyond distinguishing her figure we could catch the flutter of white...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
... 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」
...There was a flutter of Hemmy’sapron in the doorway...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905」
...When at last the insectventures upon flight, it is not with an uncertain flutter,but boldly and steadily, as if long accustomed to theaction...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...There they remain through the short sunny summer, but when the firstsnowflakes flutter through the air the cranes prepare to fly away...
Lenore Elizabeth Mulets 「Stories of Birds」
...The Peacock's cousin hurried down to the water-pool, all in a flutter ofexcitement...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...So, with a flutter of pleasant excitement, they were gone...
Edith M. Patch 「Bird Stories」
... One half of the Bees seem rather indolent, flutter about for a while, drop to the ground, appear to recover their spirits and then start off...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...When she has withdrawn her dagger from the wound, she leaves her victim where it lies and, without taking further notice of it, begins to flutter against the side of the glass...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」
...They inspect the treasure, flutter their wings and brush theirhind-legs against each other, a sign of keen satisfaction...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
..."I am dreadfully out of practice," commented Adele, seating herself atthe instrument, and letting her hands flutter over the keys dreamily...
Lucy Foster Madison 「Bee and Butterfly」
...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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