When he starts his tree trapping in the morning he does not flit carelessly from one tree to another, but after selecting his feeding ground, goes all over one branch, never leaving it for another until he has searched every crack and leaf.
When light snow is first powdering the spruces and bending the delicate hemlock branches, dusky shapes flit out of the green cover.
If a footstep touches the grass ever so lightly, he tells his mate of it and they flit off; and if any one thinks that by following the birds they will find the nest, they will be very much disappointed.
Mr. FLIT could always command a view of any of the celestial bodies by the same means.
Mr. FLIT brought forward his new and improved Street Telescope for looking at the moon.
The light in the room was dim and subdued, or Jean d'Alberg would have noticed a strange expression flit across Honor's face at the mention of this news, but the turned down light protected her.
After that he will set off west to the Firths, and Sigmund with him, for he will have to flit all his goods home from the Firths west, and he will be away till the summer is far spent.
What other bird, it may be asked, would take delight in making its way into a country church to flit about as the robin will?
Sometimes diseases of the visual organs are accompanied by hallucinations of mind; and persons ill in fevers often see successions of figures and objects flit before their eyes till the disease has been removed.
One of those forms whichflit by us, when we Are young, and fix our eyes on every face; And, oh!
And the Gazelles shall flit by in the Moon And never shake the frail Tree's lightest leaves, And moonlight roses perfume the pale Dawn Until the scarlet life that left her lips Gathers its shattered beauty in the sky.
Kelley; yet these fine lines are attributed to her: "In her hair the sunbeams nest, And in her eyes the violets blow, While in the summer of her breast The songbird thoughts flit to and fro.
In her hair the sunbeams nest, And in her eyes the violets blow, While in the summer of her breast The songbird thoughts flit to and fro.
The saddened robins flitthrough leafless trees, And chirp with tuneless voice, And wait the conquering sun, the unbinding breeze; They cannot yet rejoice.
His discarded Duchess may flit across the stage, for a brief moment he may revert to his early participation in the French war, but these are merely unimportant incidents in a busy political career.
In his life we can trace the spirit of his age, though many of the characters which flit across the stage are indefinite, and bear few striking qualities.
Whether wilt thou be with elves, Or, a sick man, flit thy bride?
Then came a screech, which seemed to flit along the rough meadow opposite, and come towards him.
Once or twice he glanced at her, and when he did the same whimsical smile would flit across his face.
She heard him grunt, and saw a mild look of surprise flit over his countenance when Roaring Bill walked in and coolly took a seat.
And again his listless gaze was riveted upon the quivering diaphanous wings of a snake-doctor, hovering close at hand, until the grotesque, airy thing would flit away.
A bird's shadow would flit across the holy page, and then away to the mountain; the winds of heaven caressed it.
But other familiar figures flit by,--the evil jinn and the love-idyll.
Quicker echoes of the earlier despond still flit here and there, with gleams of joyous light.
Is it the poet in serious meditation at the feast apart from the joyous abandon, or do we see him laurel-crowned, a centre of the festival, while the gay dancers flit about him in homage?
Really, I do not see how Mr. Browning can suppose that he has an earthly wife any more than an earthly child; both are of the elfin race, and will flit away from him some day when he least thinks of it.
