The moth comes out in June and July, and in its haunts, which are the borders of woods or the clearings therein, it flutters about at early dusk, when it can be easily netted.
When I feed him, he flutters with his wings, and pecks so nicely.
But we must hurry on, for we have a lot to do: amongst other things, a climb to where that flag flutters indistinctly in the breeze.
Our friends, I doubt not, are casting longing and tear-bedimmed eyes after us; and many a handkerchief flutters its good bye long after objects on the shore have ceased to be distinguishable.
He fluttersup and down among the branches, never still for a moment.
A graceful, yellow-breasted wagtail, still lingering here when the rest of her kindred are across the sea, flutters down now and then from the top of the dovecot to catch the flies that are sunning themselves against the wall.
At his breath the flower spreads its wings and flutters in the wind.
The bird flutters round us, swift as light, beauteous in colour, charming in song.
This evening they sit beneath the lofty palm trees, where the crane flutters round them with its long wings, and the pelican watches them from the branches of the mimosa.
The tit, each time, flutters away easily, and without making any fuss about it.
They are considerably elevated, and for a little he holds them thus aloft merely, but soon, drooping them to about half their former elevation, he flutters them tremulously and gracefully as though to please her.
In the first, the bird constantly flutters its wings, whilst, with its feet, it at the same time clings to and scratches the face of the cliff.
He hangs from them head downwards, but often, before clinging amongst them, flutters just above or, sometimes, just below them.
He pecks about, as feeding too, but in a moment or so walks up to the hen again, and now, raising his wings to the fluttering height only, flutters them tremulously as before.
As a dove just out of its fledgling nest, And, putting its wings to the first sweet test, Flutters homeward so wearily winging.
The waters swell, the mists arise, The sea-mew flutters past, And then from out thy loving eyes The tears come flowing fast.
Already scenting death, flutters around me The white, ghostly sea-mew, And whets his beak on the mast.
As the butterfly flutters anigh a flower, From its delicate chalice sips, In such wise ever fluttered my soul Anigh to her rosy lips.
The shrill bat flutters by; from yon dark tower The shrieking owlet hails the shadowy hour; Hoarse hums the beetle as he drones along, The hour of love is flown!
The bird fluttersround us, swift as light, beauteous in color, charming in song.
She daintily sways, with an airy grace, And flutters a bit of gossamer lace, While the leafy alcove echoes and thrills With her liquid runs and lingering trills.
Alas, and alas, A sweet bird flutters upon the grass; Flutters and struggles with quivering wing!
Then sudden overpower'd behold him sink, And from his hopes and lofty soarings shrink: To his dear mother his whole soul looks back, And down he flutters on the homeward track.
A wind makes dance the fine acacia leaves and flutters the cloths of the tables.
Here and there a late leaf flutters its faint death-rattle in the wind.
Rockets shriek and roar and burst against the velvet sky; the wind flutters the candle-flames above the long white slanting candles.
The intermittentflutters of light showed me the soldier who marched in front of me.
Oh, my goodness, won't he be took bad with the flutters when he hears this!
Ay, or your good feyther'll have the flutters worse'n ever," said Gumley.
As if I had not had enough flutters for one night!
You'll give old Gudgeon the flutters if he sees you in all your war-paint, Jack.
Love will not be confined by maisterie: When maisterie comes, the lord of Love anon Flutters his wings, and forthwith is he gone.
In answer, the bird fluttersfrom the linden branch, hovers over Siegfried, and hesitatingly flies before him until it takes a definite course toward the background.
A moment later a wounded swan, one of the sacred birds of the Grail brotherhood, flutters over the stage and falls dead near Gurnemanz.
Did they not go through a still, glimmering, subterranean world, light and free, without the heavy clogging earth on their feet, while in the wide Elysium the warm ether only flutters because invisible Psyches fan it with their wings?
Like the doves, she flutters around the high conflagration.
As, after the melting away of a late winter, all at once the green garment of earth flutters up high in flowers and blossoms, so in the warm air of friendship and fancy did Albano's nature start up at once into luxuriant verdure and bloom.
Genius, unexerted, is like the poor moth that fluttersaround a candle till it scorches itself to death.
Sometimes he pitches from the summit of a tree, begins his song as soon as he gets upon the wing, and flutters tremulously down to the earth, as if overcome with ecstasy at his own music.
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