How To Use Flitter In A Sentence
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It is only here that fish no bigger than trout kill swimmers, and bats the size of the ordinary flittermice of the northern hemisphere drain the life-blood of big beasts and of man himself.
VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil
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“But me no buts! or depart as recreant, not by the door like a man, but up the chimney like a flittermouse.”
Westward Ho!
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It is only here that fish no bigger than trout kill swimmers, and bats the size of the ordinary "flittermice" of the northern hemisphere drain the life-blood of big beasts and of man himself.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
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Right -- _a flittermouse_!" agreed Ruth, suddenly bursting into a laugh.
Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace
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The flittern bark of this season was dried on stages, having been taken off the young oaks after they had been felled; but the process was not found to answer.
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account
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I'm honestly not that interested, as it was just the flitter of a thought that coalesced recently and I was mostly throwing it out here to see if there was any weight to it.
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His gaze softened as a knowing expression flittered over his face.
Secrets Never Told
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He could almost tell what it was to be a bird, a nightbug, a butterfly, twirling and swirling, dancing upon the high currents, dodging limbs and weaving through flowers, flittering and fluttering ever so high, unimaginably high.
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Hannah Maddock was flittering about her bedroom when the door creaked open, and Therese walked in, carrying a pile of clothes under the crook of one arm.
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Other than a gash of red banners over the communal table - and the flitter of phosphorescing fish in the tanks that separate the dining room from the kitchen - it is a color-free zone.
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The reception filled with dancing and flittering about, the string ensemble made up of some of Texas' finest.
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Well! (may it count to me as gain!), rather than seem to offend him I lay down in that manger, though I had no more desire to sleep than has the flittermouse in our Sussex gloamings; also I was careful to offer no money, for that is brutality.
The Path to Rome
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Grimalkin was surprised, but he was not alarmed until large pincers peeled back the hatch and a giant buglike bug-eyed alien plucked him from the flitter's interior as if he was s ome sort of a prize.
Massage
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Being Dead cannot be locked into one specific genre, but seems to flitter over them all, one minute taking you to the horrors of their deaths and decay, the next dabbling in the moving love story that kept them together for so long.
2010 March 30 « The BookBanter Blog
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I know not if it is owl or flittermouse; I could fancy it was
Alarms and Discursions
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The first factories for communications hardware and small transport were set up under her aegis, and by 96 A.S. a tolerable videotelephone system was in operation, and at least one House in every five had its own flitter, or could afford one.
The Romulan Way
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She lucked out that day, however, nothing much really happened except for her mother flittering about, consulting with nurses and her father brooding, watching warily.
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Soon after the May garlands the meadow orchis comes up, which is called 'dead men's hands,' and after that the 'ram's-horn' orchis, which has a twisted petal; and in the evening the bat, which they call flittermouse, appears again.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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But then again she was scarcely fifteen years of age, and the mere idea of a Duke looking at her as this young man demonstrated sent her heart flittering like butterflies all around her chest.
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In at least sixteen dialects a _flittermouse_ means "a bat.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
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At least I'm not flittering off having an affair!
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Worried confusion flittered across the faces of the two foods . . . um, girls . . . young women.
Crossed
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Bats look more like mice than they do like birds, and they are sometimes called flittermice.
The Human Side of Animals
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Starlings flitter in the branches of the dead hornbeam by the fence.
Hayden carruth | silence & prepare « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Maggie looked harder out the window and let her eyes get adjusted to the dark until she could see the blades of grass growing near the bases of the trees and the fireflies flittering around the low bushes.
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Flittering melodies, sunny, bouncing guitar lines and brushed percussion give the record a spirited, yet blithe air to it.
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She kicked the door shut gently, pushing the lock with her elbow and depositing the pizza on the table in front of him before flittering to the kitchen and returning with plates and napkins.
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Ten went bankrupt or became broke, several were involved in financial scandals, two died in duels, one became a shattered drunkard, two "flittered" with treason, one was expelled from the Senate, one went mad, others quarreled bitterly among themselves about politics and interpreting the document they created, and most switched political sides for convenience in their subsequent quests for office.
Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"
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‘Yes ma'am,’ the sprite mocked before flittering and tinkling out of the door and joining the numerous other sprites who had finished waking their masters.
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An excellent phrase: “On Kite Hill, children flitter about like butterflies while their parents sit patiently”
CLOUD DANCING • by J. Thomas Arant
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The manic warbler was back in force atop the still leafless weeping cherry, with a flitter of potential girlfriends darting among the bamboo still bent over from the recent snow.
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The thought of not going home and going somewhere else flittered briefly through my mind.
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Through the forest of blades banded demoiselles flitter, catching the sun.
Country diary: Elton, Cambridgeshire
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In some places bats are called flittermice, but they are more nearly related to moles, shrews, and other insect-eaters than they are to mice.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
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I can't count the number of times I've heard people say, "I don't read science fiction" while clutching a Michael Crichton novel, and I've heard "I don't read fantasy" from a zillion teenagers who inevitably flitter off to the stores when a new Twilight book hits the stands.
MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 1)
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There were a few trees off in the distance, some small birds twittering and flittering among the branches.
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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
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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.
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These thoughts are flittering through your mind.
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The spell was broken, the notes flittered away as quickly as they had come back to her.
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She quenched the thought as soon as it flittered through her mind, but not fast enough.
Crimson Wind
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About the shadowy garden bats had begun to flitter, mutely petitioning.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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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
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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
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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
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We whistle, skipping to the car in a delusional, potentially ridiculous flitter.
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She gasped in excitement as she saw bolts of lightning flitter across the sky, leaping from one bleak rain cloud to another.
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Within the giant hedge that encircled the island, butterflies flittered about, and the hum of bees filled the air.
End of Time
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The jerky flight of the pipistrelle gave rise to the ancient name for bats - the flittermouse.
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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
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Her mother paused and several expressions Helene couldn't identify flittered quickly across her face.
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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
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Jagged impressions of brightly shining lights, like broken sunbeams gone horribly wrong, they flittered through his mind.
Healing the Highlander
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She flittered into the crowd, leaving me and the seal to stare at each other.
Brush of Darkness
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About the shadowy garden bats had begun to flitter, mutely petitioning.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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In fact some of the scariest bits of this film are when we see these greenish critters flittering into the shadows.
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Thus in _The Voyage of Maeldune_, he has the striking line: "Our voices were thinner and fainter than any flittermouse-shriek.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
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I watched as undistinguishable emotions flittered through his eyes.
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Her task was to guide us through a daily practice on a shaded platform while the water buffaloes and goats were herded back and forth to drink and butterflies the size of small birds flittered among the flowers.
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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
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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.
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The churned ground passing under the flitter was a nightmare of broken ridges, knife-sharp pinnacles, and pitted holes.
Uncharted Stars
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A nervous flitter of bubbles had formed in her stomach.
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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.
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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.
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I looked a lot like Ellie Mae, except my chest was flat as a flitter.
Sex Ed With Barbie and GI Joe
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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
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His fingers flittered down her face, feeling the same emotion that he had since the moment he met her, longing, love.
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Someone's fingers flittered across her hand, and she knew it was him.
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Mostly all better today, with soothing blue skies and the peripheral visiony flitter of bird wings.
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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
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Patricia, his assistant, had flittered across the room nervously to greet him.
