How To Use Flit In A Sentence

  • [72] A flitch is a side of cured meat, in this case, pork. Robert Carter Diary, 1726
  • Small birds flitted in the shade of the branches and bees were crawling over the red and white clover.
  • Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eyewater, from eye-water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations. The Gilded Age, Part 1.
  • The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce. Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
  • There are other advantages in flitting across time and space. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
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  • Several species of hummingbirds flit about the blooms of the Arizona trumpet and the desert honeysuckle, while the rat-tat-tat of five different kinds of woodpeckers may be heard.
  • To screen reception from the adjoining conference room, a cabinetmaker clad rigid-foam bifold doors with randomly flitched oak-veneered MDF panels. Interior Design Industry News
  • He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
  • Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret. Suburban Sketches
  • To realize Flitter, you must extend the Drupal database to include a new Flitter table; permissions to access Flitter data, or flits; a form to edit a flit; and some code to manipulate the database.
  • Along woodland paths, or alongside tall hedgerows, speckled wood butterflies flit between the sun and the shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • She flittered into the crowd, leaving me and the seal to stare at each other. Brush of Darkness
  • Instead of flitting from one idea to the next, you now focus on one project and make it work. The Sun
  • When she rocks in its cradle the babe the young parents intrust to her heed; when she calls the kine to the milking, the chicks to their corn; when she but flits through my room to renew the flowers on the stand, or range in neat order the books that I read, no spell on her fancy could lead her a step from the range of her provident cares! A Strange Story — Volume 07
  • I screamed again, flitting back and forth along the fence in search of a way in, but before his name stopped echoing down the street, the leech mutated from pink to red, a rapid discoloration that reminded me of how the lure in the administration window had changed. Bleeding Violet
  • Swift half visions of her loveliness – of certain delectable details of her face or figure flitted always before him. The Miller of Old Church
  • Something resembling a smirk flits across her face and the air grows heavy with his discomfort. Times, Sunday Times
  • My second question is: can anyone tell me what a "butt flitch" is? Uncategorized Blog Posts
  • Jagged impressions of brightly shining lights, like broken sunbeams gone horribly wrong, they flittered through his mind. Healing the Highlander
  • Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
  • Plus bas, (en français!) nous vous donnerons quelques autres informations (oubliées) sur l'origine du conflit yougoslave et l'une des occasions manquées les plus dérangeantes d'empêcher le conflit: le projet de "cantonisation" signé par tous les protagonistes yougoslaves début 1992. Dedefensa
  • Thankfully this solitary poor moment is but one in a huge eight-minute orchestration - one of the shorter tracks on the album - that flits from section to section.
  • Dio's mind flitted uselessly, trying to come up with an idea, a plan, an escape, but without hope.
  • Jays are shy birds, but are easily picked out as they flit off through the branches by their white rump. Times, Sunday Times
  • a rattle, what a yaffle — as they call the woodpecker, the laughing bird that flits from tree to tree. Between the Acts
  • The word flits about like an evil spirit in our national vocabulary -- but none of us knows exactly what it means. American Thinker
  • Suffice it to say that that rare enchanter Nabokov has a way of flitting in and out of my sights, as if ever-present, just there, behind my mind's eye. Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift
  • I was restless and unable to drop off, my mind going one hundred miles an hour and flitting from one topic to the next.
  • As we sat on our patio, birds were flitting about and singing, giving everyone yet another reason to enjoy the first really nice day this year.
  • This is the question that flits across the otherwise sane mind of the average woman as she flicks through glossy magazines. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scd brevis morborum recitatio, quum lucidicri argumentorum expHcationi infervirc poflit, propofito baud incongruum videtur, imOf Adveniente molis augment! termino, cadem ergana, quae corpori virgineo pabulum miniftrarunt et incrementum, plus j) ergunt conficere quam fola corporis nuJ: ritio jam exi - git; quod fupereft fanguinis per vafa uterina jam pcriodice eroittitur. A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill
  • This code applies to all sawmills engaged in the sawing of round logs and flitches of all timber species, into sawn timber.
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  • Veniziani allora 1 'empito del nemico, per numero di navi e di combattenti superiore, e durò il conflitto atroce per molte ore. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
  • I soon saw it flitting about in the twigs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
  • Eton waived fees for his last two years; he and his father lived in tiny flats, doing moonlit flits to avoid rent arrears. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the opposite wall to my left hung a gigantic plasma screen displaying a frenzied montage of flitting text and graphics.
  • As a concept, it can easily flitter away, since it has no grounding through a transformative search; note, not a search for transformation but a transforming search; not where the end result is clear beforehand and one only has to find the best means, but a transforming search. Rabbi Jack Bemporad: 'What is God?' By Jacob Needleman
  • Mr. Lavoifier found 9 parts natural gypfum to afford by diftillation 2 of water - f -, which agrees very nearly with my determination of that contained in the artificial; but fome forts of gypfum contain a mixture of mild calx, which is foreign to their conflitution, and therefore cffervefce with acids. Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...
  • Dekak appointed Subtekkin his lieutenant, to Tata/b. govern his ftate, but foon after fubflituted atabek Tegtek - kin, who had been governor before both of it and Miya - ferkm, under Taj-oddawla, and preceptor to Dekak him - felf. The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time;
  • I zoom round the other divers seeking good camera angles, lining up divers with outcrops of coral and sponges, then flitting on to catch shoals of grunts and jacks and all the usual reef fish.
  • The ghost of a smile flitted across her sad features.
  • One of my friends is giving me a browning trophy flite compound I was wondering if any one had any info on the bow good or bad | Field & Stream One of my friends is giving me a browning trophy flite compound I was wondering if any one had any info on the bow good or bad
  • I would compare it, not to the butterfly's flitting, but to the eagle's swoop and soar in flight.
  • I well remember the first occasion on which I saw a spotted forktail; I was walking down a Himalayan path, alongside of which a brook was flowing, when suddenly from a rock in mid-stream there arose a black-and-white apparition, that flitted away, displaying a long tail fluttering behind it. Birds of the Indian Hills
  • Her mother paused and several expressions Helene couldn't identify flittered quickly across her face.
  • After that he greased it with the fat of a bat or flittermouse, to see if it was not written with the sperm of a whale, which some call ambergris. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • The magic of a name flits, like a migratory bird, across the Atlantic. The Woman with the Fan
  • He had been flitting between two sections as the men advanced and each group thought he was with the other. Times, Sunday Times
  • For one of them, in fact, it was positively his thirtieth birthday; poor soul, how decrepitly he flitted in front of motor trucks. Pipefuls
  • He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
  • The first meadow brown butterflies are flitting along with a wobbling motion between the tall grasses. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was Pitapat flitting about the bed in momentary danger of looking under it! The Hidden Hand
  • The jerky flight of the pipistrelle gave rise to the ancient name for bats - the flittermouse.
  • In another age, this happy flitting, governed only by that week's editorial whim, might have felt insubstantial or indisciplined. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the moor was a throng of phantoms flitting on Petru's right and left hand, before and behind him. Roumanian Fairy Tales
  • They did moonlight flits from one awful apartment to another.
  • Today – as it was generations ago – tuxedoed waiters flit around tables, precariously balancing countless Viennese coffee varieties and trademark yeast dumplings on silver trays. Leopold Hawelka, luminary of Viennese cafe culture, dies aged 100
  • Within the giant hedge that encircled the island, butterflies flittered about, and the hum of bees filled the air. End of Time
  • The ghost of a smile flitted across her sad features.
  • Or his butterfly style of flitting from one group to another? Times, Sunday Times
  • As flashes of people, animals, houses and nature flitted around him, he thought long and hard about what he was going to do.
  • She gasped in excitement as she saw bolts of lightning flitter across the sky, leaping from one bleak rain cloud to another.
  • Elizabeth stared at herself in the mirror as her ladies flittered about twisting her hair into elaborate braids and adorning her with jewellery. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • Things with no eyes flitted about at the corner of the trio's vision, having no fear in this place devoid of emotion, of warmth.
  • Wherefore one who has the Inftru&ion of a Prince committed ta his charge, ought often to reflett, That the Child, he has care of, every day comes nearer anight, where truth will abandon him; and fo he ought to make hafte to tell him and imprint in his mind, what - foever may be molt neceflary to guide him in thofe dark mills, which ay a kind of neceflity hisCondition will caft about himC Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties
  • I was a "flitter" of the first water, and after I had been in Fort Worth for a very short while I became possessed of a desire to see something of the far famed border towns along the Rio Grande frontier. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
  • Once a tiny, flitting waif, she had become a graceful, full-figured woman.
  • The taxi entered the square like a fugitive, flitting into the sodium lighting that glared on its tinted windscreen. THE LAST RAVEN
  • Birds flitted about in the trees above them.
  • But as she recorded their business accounts, the story of Moses flitted in and out of her head between the credits and debits, the flasks of beer and wine and jars of olive oil and measures of profit.
  • They lingered around the rocks in their path, black with fringes of dry sea-weed, and talked of gneiss and sienite, granite and trap; they stopped at the curve in the shore, and sat down to watch the white flitting of sails on the far horizon-line, and somehow, the sight of them led to a long talk about Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught
  • While Peter Pan may not flit around offering free peanut butter, low-cost foreign peanut growers do offer us their crops.
  • And, to speak truth, I hae been flitting every term these four-and-twenty years; but when the time comes, there's aye something to saw that I would like to see sawn, -- or something to maw that I would like to see mawn, -- or something to ripe that I would like to see ripen, -- and sae I e'en daiker on wi 'the family frae year's end to year's end. Rob Roy — Volume 01
  • Your social butterfly side will emerge as you flit from party to party tonight. The Sun
  • These vampires are characterized by their ability to "flit" -- that is, run blurringly fast. Post-gazette.com - News
  • On Kite Hill, children flitter about like butterflies while their parents sit patiently under perfectly blue skies, pleasantly oblivious to the shouts of joy and rings of laughter. CLOUD DANCING • by J. Thomas Arant
  • They joyously flitted from branch to branch, swooping down occasionally from the skies like wind-blown flowers falling off the trees.
  • But me no buts! or depart as recreant, not by the door like a man, but up the chimney like a flittermouse. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
  • People often used to do "moonlight flits' if they couldn't pay the rent. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
  • A cluster of old nuns flit around Byzantine style interiors while a bitter monk shows me his pet dog and cat aptly called Billy and Monica.
  • They flitted around the pit in agitated circles, their burring wings stirring up the rotten-egg stench. Etched in Bone
  • I hadn't exactly been marking the days off between meetings but occasionally his handsome face had flitted through my thoughts.
  • It has been picked out in spotlights, and also been seen flitting about in the dusk. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was the mysterious, evil forest, a charnel house of silence, wherein naught moved save strange tiny birds -- the strangeness of them making the mystery more profound, for they flitted on noiseless wings, emitting neither song nor chirp, and they were mottled with morbid colours, having all the seeming of orchids, flying blossoms of sickness and decay. Chapter 25
  • The pig was cut so that two sides of pork, flitches, remained; these were cured for bacon.
  • Some comely instinct guided it thitherwards, sometimes staggering low over the water, sometimes flitting splendidly high until distance and the glowing sky absorbed it. My Tropic Isle
  • My mind flits from one thing to another without solving anything. The Sun
  • That as dust which flits up without wings I might pass and evanish The Suppliants
  • She screamed so hard we did a midnight flit to the doctor one night.
  • About the shadowy garden bats had begun to flitter, mutely petitioning. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Through the ceiling came apports of fresh flowers with the dew on them, or roots with the soil still clinging; great dinner-tables rose from the floor; lights flitted; apparitions appeared, spoke to you, took you by the hand. The Way Home
  • She quenched the thought as soon as it flittered through her mind, but not fast enough. Crimson Wind
  • Along woodland paths, or alongside tall hedgerows, speckled wood butterflies flit between the sun and the shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was unable to prevent a look of interest from flitting across his features.
  • They normally flit quickly from twig to twig, only taking the most obvious insects and insect eggs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The spell was broken, the notes flittered away as quickly as they had come back to her.
  • These thoughts are flittering through your mind.
  • The most frequent, and startling encounter is when the shadowy form of a deer flits across the trail, on the very edge of headlamp range, resulting in a heart stopping snowplow, but never a collision.
  • The following week, they will take wing in places like Florida's Cypress Gardens, where tourists pay to walk through a greenhouse flittering with more than a thousand colorful butterflies from around the world.
  • He's prone to flit between subjects with amazing ease.
  • Soon, you are in all the worry of what in Scotland we call a flitting: the house and all its belongings are turned upside down. The Recreations of a Country Parson
  • The old grass and the sprouting needles of new grass greened, the buds on the guelder-rose, the buds and the sticky, spirituous birches swelled, and on the willow, all sprinkled with golden catkins, the flitting, newly-hatched bee buzzed. Tolstoy III: Invisible Larks
  • Flitch plates became rare when plywood box beams arrived.
  • Meanwhile, there were plenty of things that did come: flies, dragonflies, humming-birds, all flitting around. COLDHEART CANYON
  • Dragonflies flitted everywhere; bees wove their nectar trails through the balmy air. COLDHEART CANYON
  • We whistle, skipping to the car in a delusional, potentially ridiculous flitter.
  • We, the public, are increasingly comfortable flitting from one era to another when it comes to viewing art. Times, Sunday Times
  • All this happened because you were flitting around like a hummingbird. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • The lunar shadow will fall in the Algerian Sahara at 0640 GMT before flitting northeastwards. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • It was in a stubble field beside the golf course, and may still be flitting around. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yellow butterflies flit from golden lantana bushes to the pink and white oleander blooms.
  • Various excuses flitted across my mind, but I decided to be frank with her.
  • Patricia, his assistant, had flittered across the room nervously to greet him.
  • Flickers of a fuzzy memory danced through her mind and flitted away in the same moment, leaving only fragments behind.
  • BISHO (ECN) - "You can check my pockets, I don't have any additional money," National Education Minister Sibusiso Bengu told a media conference in Bisho yesterday. (subs: today) Benguand his entourage flitted in to the province on an emergency fact-finding mission amid reports of the financial collapse of the state education system in the province. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • These vampires are characterized by their ability to "flit" -- that is, run blurringly fast. Post-gazette.com - News
  • Curiosity is their driving instinct, so these flitting voyeurs get their highs from watching rather than doing.
  • Then he had a glimpse of a dun colored object flitting through the scrub palmettoes under the pines. Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat
  • I looked to where he was staring, and there was the flock of bushtits, flitting from bloom to bloom.
  • The ten thousand trees beneath, and their ten million branches and twigs all completely clothed in crystal -- while not the slightest breeze was stirring -- presented a view of fairyland, such as flits across the vision in dreams, that the memory fain would cling to, but which is lost in the real and conflicting transactions of returning day. Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described
  • But then you could see the doubt flit across those boyish features. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cirque du Freak" races so fast (sorry, "flits") that no one has any motive except the oft-repeated "Matrix" - esque explanation that "it is written. TheState.com: The Buzz
  • Images from the night before flit through my mind.
  • The pattern density from the flite control loads are amazing. I'm gearing up for spring turkey season and wondering what the best 12G 3" turkey load is.
  • She shut her eyes for a moment, and heard again the alarmed protest of the whaup, and the grumble of the burn; saw again the moonlight patterns upon the ground, as it flittered through the trees, like streams of fairy radiance cast from the magic wand of night and, above all, heard Peter's voice, praising her eyes, her hair, her figure. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
  • Joe looked up and for a fleeting moment Adam saw something flit across his eyes.
  • He flitted about from obligatory flying jobs and mandatory staff tours and, eventually, wound up again crouched at his master’s feet in the Pentagon. Phony Veterans and POW's - Article Index
  • I decided I, too, would flit among the islands in search of cheap lodgings, wonderful food, clean, unspoilt beaches and, most important, crumpet.
  • As upon a world canopied with storm, hung with mourning purple and habited in black, did Mr. Flitcroft turn his morning face at eight o'clock antemeridian Monday, as he hied himself to his daily duty at the Washington National Bank. The Conquest of Canaan
  • Birds are numerous, from the “scrub fowl” which dwells in the dim jungle and constructs of decaying leaves and wood and light loam the most trustworthy of incubators, and wastes no valuable time in the dead-and-alive duty of sitting, to the tiny sun-bird of yellow and purple, which flits all day among scarlet hibiscus blooms, sips nectar from the flame-tree, and rifles the dull red studs of the umbrella tree of their sweetness. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • The warbling of a chaffinch flitting through the bushes. Earl of Durkness
  • She flits from one dance partner to another.
  • Something resembling a smirk flits across her face and the air grows heavy with his discomfort. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mostly all better today, with soothing blue skies and the peripheral visiony flitter of bird wings.
  • Someone's fingers flittered across her hand, and she knew it was him.
  • If the answer is yes to these questions and you have a story to tell about your marriage you might want to claim the flitch of bacon at next year's Flitch Trials in Great Dunmow.
  • He took them out of tl Cafes, and told us, that in his own country prance was to (liave his beard with one thefe, and to cut his meat with the otl There were two pockets, which we could enter: thcfe he called his fobs; they v two large flits cut into the top of his mic cover, but fqueczcd clofe by the prefl! ure of belly. The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
  • His fingers flittered down her face, feeling the same emotion that he had since the moment he met her, longing, love.
  • And through all this he drifted, ever pursued by the flitting shadows of the anthropophagi, themselves ghosts of evil that dared not face him in battle but that knew, soon or late, that they would feed on him. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
  • One was to stand in the open at dinner-time and see the flitting forms of the healthy, rosy sonsie bairns in the wood, and from the door in the afternoon to watch the schule skail till each group was lost in the kindly shadow, and the merry shouts died away in this quiet place. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
  • Ah! Yuagh!" called the sachem, and two young men stepped forward, toe on the line, glanced each at a framed picture, drew up an arm, and, "Whut-t-t t-e-e-p," whined two knives that flittered through the light and struck quivering, one with its cool kiss on McElroy's cheek, the other just in the edge of the slab at De Courtenay's shoulder. The Maid of the Whispering Hills
  • See yourself borne upon the shoulders of all, and your name flitting through their mouths, and manifest yourself such that you may be deemed worthy of your race, worthy of the City, worthy of our choice, worthy of the The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
  • Your social butterfly side will emerge as you flit from party to party tonight. The Sun
  • Crowds have swelled to capacity, increasing pressure for the club to move to a 55,000-ground at the waterfront, a flit which remains uncertain for financial reasons.
  • Not one word could he be persuaded to utter; yet the flitting conscious light of his eyes showed that his ears heard and his brain grasped every question put to him. SEMPER IDEM
  • One such scenario would be if one of their wee league concepts like a European or Atlantic set-up came off, although their preferred option of a flit to England looks like a non-starter.
  • As the camera flitted here and there, I noticed many, many hotties.
  • I looked a lot like Ellie Mae, except my chest was flat as a flitter. Sex Ed With Barbie and GI Joe
  • When you think of fairies, you think of cute little creatures flittering around spreading their sprinkling fairy dust on everyone. This of course is not what fairies are really like.
  • Therefore: Would I rather flit to the mainland and its bright lights, or have Chives phone the nearest cepheid agency? A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
  • Or more likely he's an intellectual butterfly, flitting between ideas. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wih laik teh Baff alawt – itza gud plais tu getz obur teh jettlagz frum haveng tu crost teh Pond wiffowt haveng tu goe strait intu teh hubbub uv Lundun awl tyrd and grumpee frum teh lawng flite sitteng awn an brume foar awl tohse owers goeng akros teh Pond kan getz tyreng inz a hurree. The Lord - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • These brightly coloured insects flit about above the surface of the water.
  • About the shadowy garden bats had begun to flitter, mutely petitioning. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • It's clear from his flitting appearances in recent times that fitness is not a problem.
  • Larger forest birds such as the grey kingbird, the streaked saltator, or the tropical mockingbird flit among the taller tree branches.
  • In daylight an innocent beachgoer might have perceived it differently: the long line of hulking ships and the smaller boats flitting among them looked like a fleet preparing to launch an invasion. LAST CALL
  • Or his butterfly style of flitting from one group to another? Times, Sunday Times
  • A nervous flitter of bubbles had formed in her stomach.
  • Melody had surprised herself with how calm she had acted and appeared even though inside a swarm of butterflies flitted nervously and a shiver ran down her spine.
  • But I had no time to dwell as I was off to Great Dunmow pictured above, land of the medieval flitch trials, so that meant a trip off to Liverpool Street to jump on the express train to Stansted. 2007 UK Tour (Leg One) Part Two
  • Her entries range from those of a social butterfly, flitting from one society event to another, to horrific accounts of the bombing of Berlin and Vienna.
  • By the early '70s the solid, two-piece Spalding Top-Flite had become popular among higher handicappers for its distance and durability.
  • In the fading light we saw bats flitting around/about in the garden.
  • He flicked glances hither and yon, allowed a scintilla of approval to flit across his face and said, `You've got him home? DEATH OF A NYMPH
  • To all who flit by here, I wish y'all a year filled with love, health, happiness, success and peace!
  • The churned ground passing under the flitter was a nightmare of broken ridges, knife-sharp pinnacles, and pitted holes. Uncharted Stars
  • One option is a move to the former Drybrough brewery site in Craigmillar, though Dalrymple says such a flit would depend on improved transport links, including a railway station or tram stop.
  • The wooden shaft was flitted with small bits of steel and iron, so it could glance off blades and other things without being split or cut.
  • The pale moon, which had hitherto been contending with flitting clouds, now shone out, and gave them a view of the solitary and naked tower, situated on a projecting cliff that beetled on the German Ocean. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • Because Flitter creates a new content type, the next step must define a new database table to persist the custom Flitter data and correlate its fields to a Drupal node.
  • The perpetual precocious adolescent flitting about mothlike, creating trifles, feuilletons, elegant piffle.
  • She seemed to spend her life flitting from one country to another.
  • It was a midnight flit, and I don't think anyone knew where he was for years, although he did spend Christmas with us when I was 17, and I spent a few days with him in Townsville about five years after that.
  • There's winking, strutting, flitting and flirting, pecks on the cheek and pinches on the bum.
  • Thoughts flitted across my mind like butterflies in a flowery meadow.
  • Sleeping through the night was inconceivable, too, as official visits outside the working day, very early in the morning or long after work, were the most productive in an industry well acquainted with the overnight flit.
  • The portents are that, despite all the problems, the outcome is a foregone conclusion and he will not need to call in the removal men next year for a flit to his new £3.5m gaff.
  • He was unable to prevent a look of interest from flitting across his features.
  • Already the handcar was a hundred yards away, flitting into distance like some big, wonderfully fast bug, the figures of the men at the pumps rising and falling with a walking-beam regularity. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
  • Fiat juflitia — a paragram for an hangman's cart. ' The Works of Laurence Sterne
  • I can see six devils, in the form of flittermice, ready to seize his soul as it comes out of his mouth. The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920
  • Awlso we lukk liek habbin noe flites agane fur a fyoo daiz – peese fur me, but frustrayshun fur peepl hoo nead 2 trabblol! Ai gots it’s arm - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close. Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades
  • His face was still, with no emotion showing, and his eyes bored into her, a spark of anger flitting through them briefly.
  • Jenny, blooming in blue silk, and Mrs. Crook, starched in white linen, flitted back and forth between kitchen and parlor, overseeing the two maidservants, who staggered to and fro under enormous platters of oatcake, fruitcake, "crumbly," and other sweets. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • They reported gold, blue, green, orange, and red colored globes flitting about in a pentagonal shape that seemed to rotate about a central axis. Foo Fighters
  • L'esperienza del film e' stata resa piu interessante dal fatto che e' avvenuta in compagnia della mia amica libanese e circa 100 israeliani o israelo-americani per chi non lo sapesse, il film racconta del conflitto Israelo-Libanese negli anni 80, e al film e' seguito un dibato alquanto animato, in cui sono state dette cose di qualita variabile. Archive 2009-02-01
  • It was in a stubble field beside the golf course, and may still be flitting around. Times, Sunday Times
  • She flits from one exotic location to another.
  • He had intended to signify that had they lived together for a week at Guestwick the idea of flitting from The Small House at Allington
  • August 12, 2009 at 4:36 pm ai has eh luckee. wuz du to leaf DC at 9:10 tunite. manajud tu mak eggselent errport trip 35 minuts frum leafen meetun en downtown tu gayt! adn maed 6:30 flite hoym. just checked – 9:10 flite stil waitun awn teh grund down dere. DON’T LOOK - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • He would ‘flit around the backyard trailing a long piece of diaphanous fabric, in the style of the ballets Russes’.
  • Sostennero i Veniziani allora 1 'empito del nemico, per numero di navi e di combattenti superiore, e duro il conflitto atroce per molte ore. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
  • Along woodland paths, or alongside tall hedgerows, speckled wood butterflies flit between the sun and the shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • Will she be able to resist the urge to flit around the world like a ballerina butterfly? Times, Sunday Times
  • Butterflies flitted from flower to flower.
  • they did a moonlight flit

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