I write a few lines, and then I fall a-musing about many things, which seem to have no connection among themselves, save that my Dove flits lightly through them all.
My stock of sunshine is so infinitely increased by partaking of yours, that even when a cloud flits by, I incomparably prefer its gloom to the sullen, leaden tinge that used to overspread my sky.
Have I heard what this tiny passenger has to say while it flits thus from tree to tree?
He is no spaniel to follow our steps; but rather flits about the clearings like the dusky spirit of the Indian, reminding me oftener of Philip and Powhatan, than of Winthrop and Smith.
The boys call it "yorrick," from the sound of its querulous and chiding note, as it flits near the traveller through the underwood.
The moth is a sun lover, and flits about flowers growing among or near its food plant, in June and July.
Beneath a bony buttonwood The mill's red door lets forth the din; The whitened miller, dust-imbued, Flits past the square of dark within.
Thou swear'st to free me, if I will unfold 70 What kind of doom it is whose omen flits Across thy heart, as o'er a troop of doves The fearful shadow of the kite.
Sure, ere you breathe, the fickle wind Will break its truce and bend that grass-plume high, Scarcely yet quiet from the gilded fly That flits a more luxurious perch to find.
A TINY bird flits through the twilight brown, When sunset dreams make all the garden fair, Whose soft notes fall into the quiet air Like olive leaves on waters smooth dropped down.
Cried Rua and turned and descended the turbulent stair of the stream, Leaping from rock to rock as the water-wagtail at home Flits through resonant valleys and skims by boulder and foam.
The butterfly with gilded wing, That flits from spray to spray, Is but an evanescent thing, That passeth soon away.
For a time back, across the otherwise blue-jean career of Israel, Paul Jones flits and re-flits like a crimson thread.
The yellow-bird flits like a winged jonquil here and there; like knots of violets the blue-birds sport in clusters upon the grass; while hurrying from the pasture to the grove, the red robin seems an incendiary putting torch to the trees.
Oh, with your never-closing eyes, had you but an intellect to moralize on all that flits before them, what a wise doll would you be!
On the fourth side is the sea, stretching away toward a viewless boundary, blue and calm except where the passing anger of a shadow flits across its surface and is gone.
True, a shadow sometimes flitsacross his brow, but the sunshine is sure to follow in a moment.
Noiselessly the bread cart flits by, the huge shadows bending over the body stretched on the boards.
A trap," it flits through my mind, as I accompany the overseer.
Quickly she flits by, the recollection even of her name lost in the glow of Anarchist emotionalism and the fervent enthusiasm of my Orchard Street days.
Jasper, the colored trusty, flits up and down the hall, tremendously busy, his black face more lustrous than ever.
And when there is no nest, he flits over the tree-tops, catching tiny flying insects, and uttering a queer call that sounds something like the mew of a cat.
He flits about the upper branches, picking out the smallest insects and insect eggs, and eating them.
Still through the ivy flits the bee Where Amaryllis lies in state; O Singer of Persephone!
For an instant, there is a faint glow of tenderness in her face, but it flits across and does not stay.
An expression of surprise flitsacross her face for a moment.
A shadow flitsbefore me, Not thou, but like to thee.
She flits before no earthly blast, The red sign fluttering from her mast, Over the solemn seas, The ghost of the schooner Breeze!
Donning his golden sandals, the messenger-god flitsto the Island of Ogygia, enters Calypso's wonderful cave, and delivers his message.
As he speaks, spirit after spirit flits down the stairs, each bound on some errand of charity to the spheres below.
All this flits through Harry Blew's brain in a tenth part of the time it takes to tell it.
Thy form will not be one That flits the air, As one that trusts in God And knows no care.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
