Example Sentences

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Flutters of light course through the field’s integrity.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The ancient building quickens to the thrill Of lilting feet; but only singing rain Flutters old echoes in the portico; Those who can still remember love it so.

From Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by Heyward, DuBose

Upon this leafy bush   With thorns and roses in it, Flutters a thing of light,   A twittering linnet.

From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by De la Mare, Walter

As a dove just out of its fledgling nest, And, putting its wings to the first sweet test, Flutters homeward so wearily winging.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean

Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms, And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,150 To hail his father; while his little form Flutters as winged with joy.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley