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Sentences starting with flitting

Flitting about were to be seen the social heroes who had a notoriety thirty and forty years ago in the newspapers. [4]

Sentences ending with flitting

Doubtless, however, the region isn't doleful, and the sentimental traveler would not have felt it so if he had not encountered this funereal flitting. [4]

More example sentences with the word flitting in them

For instance, next week you may find me the guest of a grandee of Spain, or you may find me off for Venice, or flitting toward Dresden. [5]
Mr. Isham's voice was firm, his face certainly betrayed no feeling, but a flitting gleam of satisfaction might have been seen in his eye. [9]
This is no time to be flitting about the earth. [5]
He shaved through this financial crisis, in spite of the blow he had received by the loss of his lawsuits, the flitting of his cousin, Auguste Charron, and the farm debts of this same cousin. [11]
He felt that there was trouble in them--he saw phrases, sentences flitting past him. [11]
I have pulled the twins apart and made two individuals of them; I have sunk them out of sight, they are mere flitting shadows, now, and of no importance; their story has disappeared from the book. [5]
By this time the peeresses are flowing in in a glittering stream, and the satin-clad officials are flitting and glinting everywhere, seating them and making them comfortable. [5]
Then he waylays the first spectre of a reason that goes flitting through the desert places of his mind, and is at once serene again and ready for conflict. [5]
It was here that Jacob lay down and had that superb vision of angels flitting up and down a ladder that reached from the clouds to earth, and caught glimpses of their blessed home through the open gates of Heaven. [5]
And so they started, Cynthia flitting hither and thither along the roadside, picking the stately purple iris flowers in the marshy places, while Wetherell pondered. [9]
There was always some butterfly or another flitting about, and when Philip showed by his manner that he was not pleased, Ruth laughed merrily enough and rallied him on his soberness--she declared he was getting to be grim and unsocial. [5]
The doctor is one of those people who has an infallible preventive of seasickness; is flitting from friend to friend administering it and saying, "Don't you be afraid; I know this medicine; absolutely infallible; prepared under my own supervision. [5]
And how many of these careless, flitting men of fashion I looked upon could feel the ground firm beneath their feet; or could say with certainty what a change of ministers, or one wild night at White's or Almack's, would bring forth? [9]
The weird voice of the old woman was exciting in itself, and we could not escape the image of this unknown man, dancing about this region without any medicine, fleeing perchance by night and alone, and finally flitting away down the Gut of Canso. [4]
Venters saw a number and variety of birds flitting among the trees. [13]
It was so natural, so informal, so intimate that readers accepted it as matter of course, as they accepted the blooming of flowers and the flitting of birds. [4]
It was partial moonlight, but there were flitting clouds. [11]
I do not mean constantly flitting from one place to another, for my residence has often been fixed for considerable periods. [6]
It was a May morning to rouse a sluggard; the night air tingled into life at the touch of the sunshine, the trees in the flitting glory of their first green. [9]
A man who like me, is going to strike 70 on the 30th of next November has no business to be flitting around the way Howells does--that shameless old fictitious butter fly. [5]
He was up late at night, wandering about the house from the cellar to the garret, so that, his light being seen flitting from window to window, the story got about that the old house was haunted. [6]
The man was lame in one leg, and appeared to be flitting from place to place. [5]
The word "silently" is used deliberately, because to Mr. Price appertained a certain ghostlike quality of flitting, and to Mr. Price's horse and wagon likewise. [9]
Once I believed I saw a figure flitting in the gray light, but I set it down to my imagination. [9]
I do sincerely hope she will soon come back, for we all like to see her flitting round the table. [6]
At that moment he caught a parting glimpse of the brown head-dress of Miss Brass flitting down the kitchen stairs. [12]
How often he had admired that pretty flitting of her feet! [11]
At last we got to where lanterns could be seen flitting about here and there, and knew we were in the midst of the curious old city. [5]
The lightning flashes glared in at the curtained windows like a flitting lamp, and the roar of the thunder shook the panes which rattled and clanked in their leaden frames. [10]
And as they gazed up at him now they seemed to reflect, without disclosing the flitting thoughts behind them. [9]
Finally we stopped flitting and lit. [5]
Did this drop fall patiently during five thousand years to be ready for this flitting human insect's need? [5]
And yet that evening, as I hesitated in the hall, I somehow was unable to grasp that it was real and permanent, the very solidity of the walls and doors paradoxically suggested transientness, the butler a flitting ghost. [9]
O.W.H., and other conspirators in masks have been seen flitting about the town for some days past. [5]
The hours went by, and no living thing appeared in the desert, save a small cloud of vultures, heavy from feasting on a camel dead in the waste, and a dark- brown snake flitting across their path. [11]
The few night birds, sweeping swiftly on their strong pinions from one island to another, flew past them like flitting shadows. [10]
To Damascus, years are only moments, decades are only flitting trifles of time. [5]
Their candles are always flitting about in the gloom, and making the dim old church more dismal than there is any necessity that it should be, even though it is a tomb. [5]
It was like a troubled ghost, flitting along the boundaries of sight and sense, and leaving a chill and a horrified wonder behind. [11]
Her eyes had a flitting hunted look. [11]

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