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 dove, with friendly curiosity, Flutters to the next bush, and looks With tender sweetness on the wounded king.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

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

Flutters thy breast with fear, or pants for fame, ‘Or pines, to indolence and spleen a prey, ‘Or avarice, a fiend more fierce than they?

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James

Here in lovely New England When summer is come, a sea-turn Flutters a page of remembrance In the volume of long ago.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss