| 单词 | flitter |
| 例句 | She flittered around him like a pesky gnat, glad to have someone eager to listen to everything she had to say as she recounted our adventures on the banks of the Rio Grande. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The screen at the back of the stage flitters with color. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z A wavering, brilliant red color flittered in front of her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z As Cady moved to snap closed the top, something fluttered out of the ripped lining, just flittered to the floor, as though Fate had wanted her to find it. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z As the swarm of people moves into the grand corridor with its flittering arrival and departure boards, no one notices that I slowly drift away from Mr. Talk-a-lot and the annoyed laptop lady. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It flittered about the ceiling, then landed on the foot of the bed opposite me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Something flittered there in front of his mind like a bat's wing, obscuring his idea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As we got close enough to see the multicolored array of butterflies flittering in the courtyard of our grandmother’s house, Juanita answered, “Not so many different kinds in one place.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The butterflies flittered around us, beating their wings gently against the windshield then sitting prettily on the dashboard. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Others appeared nervous, flittering around like caged birds. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Did hummingbirds flitter their way to the stars? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z A bat flittered through the trees and out again without touching a twig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were night sounds—birds, flittering things he knew were bats. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z They flittered up into the air, dancing around the light, thousands and thousands of them, fluttering together, dancing to our song. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She was wild-haired as ever—or even more so, from her recent exertions—and had put on a slip with a robe, unbelted, its ties flittering behind her like silky kitten tails. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A guy on a bike road through the flock of pigeons, causing them to flap and flitter around, pepperoni hanging from their beaks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Fragmented images flittered at the edge of memory. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The snout-nosed butterflies were everywhere, flittering in the air, resting on our bedclothes, even tangled in our hair. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Indiscriminate in taste, the mariposas flittered over cultivated gardens as happily as they danced over thorn-ridden lots and neglected fields. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I rubbed my forehead, trying to force out the images flittering through my mind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She flittered around some peanuts in the carton nearest her and pulled out a small, pink cordless drill, pressed the On lever. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Our route takes us through woods of mamey, bitter orange, coffee and banana, shaded by avocado and the royal palm, past ferns and flittering butterflies. Cuba libre: exploring the island by campervan 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z This is our culture now: unlike in 1977, there are dozens of TV outlets, thousands of media outlets, millions of news stories and memes flittering across our radar. History’s Roots Remake: Probably Unnecessary, Possibly Worth It Anyway 2013-11-06T17:25:21Z Wolf Blitzer interrupted the analysis to excitedly point out the lead flittering back and forth, back and forth. A Rudderless Night, as News Networks Struggle With a Surprise Victory 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z She makes eye contact with audience members and then flitters away. There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z When I did, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, and the stroll was eerily idyllic, with butterflies flittering among the bluestem that line the trail. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z UCLA's panicked on the next possession, flittering the ball around the zone — Princeton almost stole it twice — before Toby Bailey rushed a three pointer with six seconds left on the shot clock. Princeton-UCLA: Reflections on an Historic Upset 2011-03-16T10:05:00Z A magisterial melody on the violin is cushioned by hushed tremolos, flittering rising thirds and delicate trills in the piano. New Recordings: Schubert Fantasie by Carolin Widmann and Alexander Lonquich 2012-07-08T03:53:04Z As it was, the episode seemed all too easily able to flitter on to the next thing—or things, setting up several cliffhangers for the midseason break. Glee Watch: The Bully Becomes the Bullied 2012-02-22T15:03:38Z Four of them flitter more or less in place, while one features computer-controlled illumination that draws more dynamic patterns. Review | In the galleries: Three local artists explore the transient nature of identity 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Listen hard enough, and the nearly sitcom-length middle can even feel short when the same big, bending sounds are crammed into little pockets of time that flitter away before you know it. Perspective | Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ is a beautiful ballad. This 33-minute cover version takes it to a whole new place. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Once Smith was cast, the filmmakers needed to find an actress who could inhabit the part of Jess, flittering enigmatically across a spectrum from innocent ingénue and damsel in distress to savvy, worldly femme fatale. 'Focus' filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa go for the unexpected 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Or, more narrowly, to the flatterers, courtiers and women who flitter like moths around the incandescent bulb of his personality. ‘Loro’ Review: A Corrupt Leader, and the People Who Love Him 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The chrysalis miraculously turned into the butterfly and flittered into space. Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z The Thai-born artist’s photographs and videos contrast reveries with mundane physical reality: passport visa stamps and international consumer products flitter past in montage. Review | In the galleries: Transfer lettering becomes a medium with a message 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Fairchild, both sharp and soft, flitters backward while slapping her thighs or suddenly wilts to the floor like a deflated balloon. Review: Alexei Ratmansky Finds a New Voice at City Ballet 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It begins with flittering, quietly bustling orchestral music. Music Review: Conductor Makes Philharmonic Debut With Sufi Poetry and Celestial Yearnings 2011-03-04T23:52:30Z “Chambers” and “The Wind in High Places” were perfect in this setting — faint, glassy, slowly glinting and softly flittering, like the crickets and birds audible in the woods around the Morris Museum. We Heard Our First Live Music in Months. Nothing Beats It. 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Butterflies are hard to pin down: they're always flittering and fluttering. Butterfly keeper Mark Tansley on Damien Hirst: The Souls 2010-10-10T21:15:00Z As Francis’ military helicopter landed at the Fatima helipad, nearby wildfires turned the sky smoky black and sent ash flittering down on the crowd. Pope visits Portuguese shrine known for apocalyptic prophesy linked to Russia as war rages on 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z There are times in Nolan’s latest opus that flames fill the frame and visions of subatomic particles flitter across the screen — montages of Oppenheimer’s own churning visions. Movie Review: A bomb and its fallout in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z A flittering nervous energy was planted in my body and would not budge. You’re an Anxious Person and Want to Quit Your Job. Here’s What to Do. 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z But this stretch of land is still and calming, all unobstructed blue sky and vast green lawn cut only by a flittering white kite line — an Ellsworth Kelly-like urban oasis. This weekend, look up to the heavens: A kite 'gallery in the sky' will fly over L.A. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z “He had rock star potential — their campaign flittered that away,” said Mike Mikus, a longtime Democratic operative in Pennsylvania and a Lamb supporter. Conor Lamb Had All the Makings of a Front-Runner. So Why Is He Struggling? 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Their trips Saturday though fog and the occasional flittering snowflakes were vital, though. Shiffrin, Goggia take positive vibes from downhill training 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z When I’ve gone hiking with my dog, I rarely feel lonely as I listen to birdsong and watch the great monarchs flitter and flutter. Perspective | I’m not alone in feeling lonely. There are ways to fight loneliness. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Ornithopter aircraft flittering over the sands of the desert planet Arrakis like giant mechanical dragonflies. ‘Dune’ review: Remarkable new film gets everything right, from the cast to the sandworms 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Her voice flittered from the screen, filling her father’s New York City hospital room. Three daughters mourn fathers in a sisterhood of grief 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The song of a wrentit — a cute little brown flitter — fits better with the message. Stuck at home? Now is the perfect time to learn the language of birds 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Fish flittered across Alexa’s back, and she recoiled in a panic. AP WAS THERE: 2013 typhoon kills thousands in Philippines 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z On a day that flittered between league and cup matches in England, the focus in the afternoon was on the relegation scrap. Salah’s Liverpool produces desire Mourinho craves from Man U 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Above them, a giant screen showed the game action, with fantastical creatures flittering across a jungle landscape, hurling spears and bombs and shooting cannons. E-sports isn't just a kids game anymore, there's big money for the best 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Then sit back, and watch the hummingbirds flitter about in a mad frenzy as they try to decide which fuchsia to visit first. Beautifully bright hummingbird magnets put the ‘hardy’ in hardy fuchsias 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Williams and Wilkins weren’t show horses flittering between cocktail parties and restaurant tables ostentatiously talking the talk. Opinion | Celebrating, and mourning, two beacons in the quest for racial equality 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But even that flittered away as he was helped off the court by teammates and went into the locker room and did not return. Kristaps Porzingis’s Injury Overshadows Knicks’ Victory 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Lasorda discovered the switch only after he got dressed and heard laughter flittering through the clubhouse. After a lifetime of tending to the Dodgers and Cubs, brothers are part of baseball lore 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Soul violinist Lee England Jr. filled the restaurant with music as the players flittered from table to table, interacting with all of the diners. Chris Paul and teammates serve dinner at Mastro's to raise money for charity 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z She recalls feeling awed and barely present, her thoughts instead flittering back to her country. Poised to make history, a judge in Afghanistan hits a familiar wall 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Anguish and love are both evident in a glittering birthday card intended for Judy Hazel S. Fernandez, depicting a happy frog on a lily pad, under a bouquet of pink water lilies, dragonflies flittering about. Family Room for Relatives of 9/11 Victims Is Recreated in Albany 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z The Germans call them “Rabenmutters,” a pejorative term for mothers who act like ravens, abandoning their young in nests while they flitter off to work. Contributing Op-Ed Writer: Queen Victoria, Another Maligned Mother 2014-03-23T23:45:28Z Piano keys flitters over a montage of head collisions. 'League of Denial' 2013-10-09T16:35:24Z By day they lurked in the shadows; But as night fell, Stealing forth from dark corners, Like toads, bats, and owls, They crawled and flittered round my temples, Filling my soul with horror. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z She had flittering green eyes and a funny smile. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Simply because we cease to reason upon matter of fact, and soar in fanciful regions in search of a flittering phantom, a creature of our own imaginative faculties. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z To this day I cannot hear it without a certain swelling to let in the smell of the summer dusk and the flitter of the bats outside and the quaver of my mother's voice. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z They lit with a flittering, golden light the white arabesquesed walls, the dado of lovely tiling, the marble floor and the fountain pool in the centre where goldfish flashed. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z My first flittering reaction was what scientists might call a false positive. Sports of The Times: Enthusiasm for Return of These Knicks and Nets Fades Fast - George Vecsey 2011-11-28T23:07:27Z When he raised his head, Mrs. Van Osten's light green flitter of a smile was greeting him from the sofa. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z I scratched his face all to a flitter jig, and soon made him cry out for quarters in good earnest. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. 2011-11-07T02:00:17.560Z Whenever this glad sight was noted, every kayak about camp was manned, and the skin canoes went flittering like birds over the water. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Now and then a greyish glimmer passed with rapid gleam flittering athwart the windows; but, whenever this glimmer came, the lead and iron of the frames always melted and ran rolling down. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z The swallows were flittering and diving through the air in quest of gnats and other insects, many of the birds passing not twenty feet overhead. The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 2011-05-07T02:00:28.747Z “Anyway, I was took up with watching the baste of an old rick flaring itself into flitters; and a rale good job.” Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Bowed to the earth with bitter woe, Or laughing at some raree-show, We flitter idly to and fro. Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z Bertram's face, as he returned beneath the awning, followed by Delmar, was ashy pale, and there was a strange flitter in his eyes, but his demeanour was calm and composed. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z Then they dropped off and went agate o’ the flitters.’ The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z I think she is just flitter and frosting—just a Christmas-card. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise “Failed!” he repeated helplessly, and the echo seemed to go flittering about the substantial walls like a derisive India-rubber bat on a spree. The Valiants of Virginia As the two men entered she started up, her first glance fell upon the stranger, and a look akin to disappointment flittered over her face. The Children of the World However, in some parts of the country the bat is still called by its old English name, "the flittermouse," that is, the mouse that flitters, or flutters about. The Squirrels and other animals Illustrations of the habits and instincts of many of the smaller British quadrupeds For a moment a fugitive smile flittered across Sage's features. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall They were soon sure that they were not mistaken; as it grew darker a flittering light was seen in that direction, and a continued fire of distant musketry was heard. The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars Fritter, not flitter, is the name of a kind of fried cake. Every-Day Errors of Speech We didn't have no trouble about snags; the lightning was glaring and flittering around so constant that we could see them plenty soon enough to throw her head this way or that and miss them. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade The lone white stars that glitter; The stream's complaining wave; Gray bats that dodge and flitter; Black crickets hid that rave; And me whose life is bitter, And one white head stone grave. Blooms of the Berry We had corn bread and gravy for dinner, with a tremendous dessert, the suggestion of Custis, consisting of whortleberry flitters, with butter and sugar sauce, costing about $16. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Are you murderer, smuggler, thief, or only the harmless and domestic moonlight flitter?” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) Bees, and white and yellow butterflies flittered in a mat of weeds and wild blackberry vines, which had entirely covered an angle of the old rail fence near them. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John When the first lark flittered up To sing, at dawn, I woke; and thou wast gone. Collected Poems Volume Two I saw her eyelid flitter when I came in, but she did not look up; now she hardly ever gives me a glance. Shirley Quickly the brief bat wends His flittering way, thro flowing Fields of the autumn air, That are husht of the city's sound. Many Gods It flittered lightly to a plant and seemed to wait, and abruptly a vivid carmine blossom opened wide; wide enough to admit it. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Tubby remarked, as they stood there with their eyes riveted on the flittering monster of the air. The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields For an instant nothing happened, save that flittering bits of broken glass shimmered their way to the sand. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 We even garnish each loaf with a generous gob of Gazoopis—our own ingenuous invention—before they finally flitter forth! Kid Scanlan It made flitters of the statue of the old Queen that was sitting fornint the City Hall. The Red Hand of Ulster They are flittering and glittering, gallant and gay, Yawning all the morning, and lounging all day, But when he grows old, And his sunshine is past, Three score years being told, Brings repentance at last. Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements You could not dance to them steadily, with soft airs blowing all about, leaves flittering in sunshine, and water rippling near, without getting an appetite commensurate to the feasts in wait for you. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Children of different ages flittered to and fro among them, picking up stones and mud. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story The regular police and the troopers were helpless because the men they wanted to arrest were shadows that flitter here and there ... large and substantial shadows, but impossible to seize and imprison. Empire She rose, and stood before him, sharply outlined against the foliage, the water, the momentary, flittering insects, taunting, provocative, sensual. Mountain Blood A Novel A bat that had been drawn in by the light flittered invisibly near them. The Fifth Queen Crowned If they have heard of the honey pond, where flitters grow on trees, they need not be surprised if they don't find it. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West A white butterfly was flittering above the flowers, and a red bird leaving the magnolia tree by the gate, flew, a splash of colour, across to the garden beyond. The Ghost Girl The rurales and the rangers have had their eye on those border flitters for quite some time. Crooked Trails and Straight For identifying the tree-top flitters an opera glass is scarcely powerful enough. Our Bird Comrades The bat flittered, with a leathern rustle, invisible, between their very faces. The Fifth Queen Crowned Nothing moved on the cliffs, except some small birds which flittered homelessly among the black and twisted burnt gorse. A Poor Man's House Immediately his voice was stilled, and the flittering light dropping earthward, after the manner of a falling rocket-stick, told what had happened to him. Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold Whips of money at him, Liza—whips of it—millions, they're saying."—"He's spending it like flitters then. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 The goldfinches are also long-distance flyers, not flitters. Our Bird Comrades "Snipes!" says Bridget; "deft art thou, fosterling, to take them without either springe or stonebow, and they all flittering like butterflies on a March day." The Sundering Flood Let us go in the flitter, whatever that is. The Stars, My Brothers Bull bats began to flitter back and forth above the tops of the trees. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights Umbo Stetson, Orne's section chief, went back into his cruiser's "office" after a hospital flitter took pod and patient. Operation Haystack James, needless to say, flittered and hurried hither and thither around the audience and the stage, like a wagtail on the brink of a pool. The Lost Girl There were broad, well-lit streets that stretched on and on, as far as he could see, and beyond them, flittering fairy bridges rose into the air and arched into the distance. Viewpoint A flitter," Webber had informed him, "just doesn't have room for the complicated apparatus that such scanners require. The Stars, My Brothers The night-stock oozes scent, And a moon-blue moth goes flittering by: All that the worldly day has meant Wastes like a lie. New Poems He looked to the southwest where a flitter was growing larger as it approached. Operation Haystack "If you take off at all, you'll take off in a suit, inside a one-man flitter," the Lensman interrupted. The Vortex Blaster She opened it and glanced abstractedly through the leaves as they flittered under her fingers. From Place to Place Seeing is a luxury you dispense with in a flitter. The Stars, My Brothers Flitter, flitter, flutter, went the noise; and when the queen looked up, lo and behold! on every seat was a lovely fairy, dressed in green, each with a most interesting-looking parcel in her hand. Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book" When the chauffeur-driven limousine flitter had dropped down to the house's landing pad, Orne had seen a parasol and sunhat nodding to each other on the blue tiles beside the pool. Operation Haystack In that case, I set my flitter into a projectile trajectory like this, whose objective is the center of the vortex, there. The Vortex Blaster He was not the man to cultivate great acquaintances, or to flitter away his time waiting the convenience of other people. Obiter Dicta Second Series The flitter seemed to hurtle forward at comet-like speed. The Stars, My Brothers When one saw her flittering among the flowers it was hard to say which was the daintier—the blossoms or Betsy Butterfly. The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales "We're taking the small flitter for a tour of the wilderness area tomorrow," said Diana. Operation Haystack "And there you are, right in the middle of that explosion, with two duodec bombs outside your armor—or just inside your flitter." The Vortex Blaster Flitter, flitter, flutter, went the noise; and when the queen looked up, lo and behold! on every seat was a lovely fairy, dressed in green, each with a most interesting-looking parcel in her hand. Prince Prigio And somewhere under the blind wall of the flitter a rock-hard world-face reeling and rushing, leaping to meet them— The flitter slowed. The Stars, My Brothers In fact, she was so accustomed to their flittering after her that usually she paid little heed to them. The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales She took his hand as they came up the steps after seeing her father to his limousine flitter. Operation Haystack "How long will it take to get the flitter ready?" The Vortex Blaster A little light flittered through the thin curtain, enabling Max to grope his way about the tiny stateroom, and he determined not to rouse his companion by switching on the electricity. A Soldier of the Legion Kieran climbed out of the flitter, practically throwing himself out in his haste. The Stars, My Brothers All four of our base camps were set inland, our explorations along the coast were mainly carried out by flitter, except for one party—the one which found this. Storm Over Warlock Then as the soft flitter of the bats' wings began in the dusk, he kissed them both and went early up to bed. The Lovely Lady Then all three went out to the flitter. The Vortex Blaster The day had been unpleasant, but in the afternoon it cleared off, and the sunbeams flittered through the foliage of the trees. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis It struck the side of the flitter with a sharp clack, and fell. The Stars, My Brothers Though with all the Terran scout flitters grounded on the field, the men dead in their bunks, the surprise would seem to be complete. Storm Over Warlock It was mid-afternoon when the flitter took to the air once again, scattering the hovering globes. Star Hunter But this one had something that the ordinary speedster or flitter did not carry; spaced around the needle beak there yawned the open muzzles of a triplex bomb-thrower. The Vortex Blaster Was there the faintest flitter of relief on the lowering face? Steve Yeager He rolled inside the flitter and turned to look back out the hatch. The Stars, My Brothers "What a skyful of lovely white clouds!" she said, looking up to the pure, fleecy folds that were flittering over the blue. Faith Gartney's Girlhood The flitter, yes, that was the perfect escape. Star Hunter Ten seconds in which to solve the equation—to choose, fire, move clear—the flitter bucked. The Vortex Blaster Though to deliberately smash up a flitter and set them all afoot in this wilderness was a pretty drastic move. Voodoo Planet The flitter crouched in a vastness of red-ochre sand laced with some low-growing plant that shone like metallic gold in the sunlight. The Stars, My Brothers Are you glad we have come with a flitter and twitter Once more on the housetop to meet, to meet, to meet? Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead There was a flash—shouting—Vye curbed the impulse to look back, darted for the flitter. Star Hunter The massive door—flitters have no airlocks, as the whole midsection is scarcely bigger than an airlock would have to be—rammed shut upon its fiber gaskets, the heavy toggles drove home. The Vortex Blaster Putting aside the excuse of fearing another crack-up, the wrecked flitter made no outstanding mark on the ground. Voodoo Planet Webber beckoned and she nudged him to move out of the flitter. The Stars, My Brothers There was a pause, and the flittering wings seemed to stop beating the air. Bumper, The White Rabbit Less than an hour later after a soaring approach, Hume brought the flitter down with neat skill on the top of one of the cliffs which helped to form the portal of the gap. Star Hunter Then, making sure that his two companions had ducked for cover, Cloud shot his flitter into the air and toward the seething inferno which was Loose Atomic Vortex Number One. The Vortex Blaster Jellico tossed one on the crumpled nose of the flitter and punched its button with the tip of the needler barrel. Voodoo Planet Behind him the hatch closed and the flitter stirred and then took off all by itself, humming. The Stars, My Brothers The flitter—he was back on the flitter! Star Born Time and time again he climbed higher—always to meet climbing, twisting, spurting lines of lights which reacted on the engine of the flitter and threatened it with complete failure. Star Hunter He knew what those symptoms meant; even the flitter's powerful screens were not stopping all the radiation; even his suit-screens and his special goggles were not stopping what leaked through. The Vortex Blaster In a very short time they connect the sound of a flitter cutting the air with food. Voodoo Planet It was a completely different sound from the humming of the flitter, and it seemed to Kieran to hold a note of menace. The Stars, My Brothers He had known that sound too long and too well ever to mistake it—the drone of a flitter motor cutting through the swish of the falling water. Star Born Then Hume added, "If we can reach the flitter before sunset, we'll have a chance to fly over the lake down there, to make a taping of it before we go." Star Hunter The tiny control room of the flitter grew hotter and hotter. The Vortex Blaster Luckily, they both wore stass belts; but they had to land the flitter and leave until the lioness wandered off, and she seriously damaged the machine in her irritation. Voodoo Planet They'll be a couple of hours at least, overhauling and examining the flitter. The Stars, My Brothers In the end they gave up their quest and circled back to come out near the field where the flitter and the globe rested. Star Born Hume brought the flitter over in one last sweep. Star Hunter "I'll have everything on the tapes in the flitter," Cloud reminded. The Vortex Blaster As they climbed up-slope from the flitter, Dane, looking back, saw that perhaps Asaki was right in his belief that they had better try to help themselves rather than wait for rescue. Voodoo Planet When they threw the stones, and we got back into the flitter, you pushed me ahead of you. The Stars, My Brothers None of the aliens approached the flitter as the shadows began to draw in. Star Born No, they hung in a glowing cluster ahead when in the dawn the flitter shot away from the woods, headed for the landmark of the safari camp. Star Hunter That the flitter stops one, too—or doesn't stop it, rather? The Vortex Blaster Because I'm inclined to believe that any flitter that tries to reach us may run into the same trouble. Voodoo Planet When we caught the flitter and found it empty, it was obvious that you were with the people, and it became imperative to find you before you came to harm. The Stars, My Brothers There was still activity about the globe; they were bringing in the loot from the warehouse, but Lablet and Hobart stood by the flitter. Star Born The flitter was at the top of the cliff, as far out of his reach now as if it were in planetary orbit. Star Hunter The flitter hung poised in air, motionless, upon softly hissing under-jets. The Vortex Blaster One of his duties aboard the Queen was flitter pilot for planetwise trips. Voodoo Planet Aligned, Zolan released the tug, and gentling his thrusters, brought his flitter to rest on a landing platform that had articulated from a portal. The Universe — or Nothing But the captain was very quiet and sober, and he unstrapped the wrist camera as soon as he reached the flitter, turning it over to Soriki. Star Born That piece of tailoring occupied them until the graying sky permitted them a full picture of the pocket in which the flitter had landed. Star Hunter Then, so rapidly that it was one blur of speed, he again kicked on his eight G's of drive and started to whirl around as only a speedster or a flitter can whirl. The Vortex Blaster And the flitter skimmed down across water which was a rich emerald in hue, filling the crater from one rock wall to the other with no beach at the foot of those precipitant cliffs. Voodoo Planet Following a few short stops to surface stations to inspect military tunnels and comm links, and validate the flitter's flight record, he diverted to a depression between Coldfield and the horizon. The Universe — or Nothing Soriki stepped out of the flitter, the wrist camera dangling from his fingers. Star Born He brought the flitter around in a wide circle, the purr smoothed out once more in a steady reassuring beat. Star Hunter The flitter was not even out of the crater when the bomb went off. The Vortex Blaster Suddenly there was a snarl behind them and they found themselves sharing the flitter with a lioness annoyed at finding no meat waiting on board. Voodoo Planet Shifting his eyes critically from the checklist to flitter and back, he walked around the tiny flyer inspecting the spars for alignment and cracks. The Universe — or Nothing Raf fastened on the helmet and started away from the flitter. Star Born The directive would glide the flitter to the best available landing. Star Hunter They were not close enough to the flitter to wreck it of themselves, but they were close enough so that they didn't do her—or her pilot—a bit of good. The Vortex Blaster So they come to the banquet and those on the flitter can take their tri-dee shots at ease. Voodoo Planet Blending his flitter's comm with the flood of electronic signals from nearby tugs and transports at the Gateway, Zolan drew closer to the huge Depot and took shelter in a knot of lashed vessels. The Universe — or Nothing What had happened to Soriki and the flitter, to the captain and Lablet, who had been in the heart of the enemy territory when he had challenged the aliens? Star Born To the right was a sheer drop, and a land slip had cut away the ledge itself a few feet behind the flitter. Star Hunter For, fortunately, the Berg still worked; the flitter and all her contents and appurtenances were inertialess. The Vortex Blaster Then, to see if he could get the lions to forget man's presence entirely, he hung the training carcasses on the flitter, encouraging them to jump for their food. Voodoo Planet Tug operator and anyone else that observes my presence or the flitter must not repeat must not log the serial number of my flitter or any of its features. The Universe — or Nothing But Raf tried to move his arms, twist his body, be sure that he rested in the flitter. Star Born He had not seen the Hunter since they had both been loaded into the Patrol flitter in the gap. Star Hunter Thus, when Cloud cut his Bergenholm, restoring thereby to the flitter the absolute velocity and inertia she had had before going free, there resulted a distinctly anti-climactic crash. The Vortex Blaster And his slight concern deepened into something else as the flitter began to drop nose again. Voodoo Planet Zolan carefully adjusted the controls to slip the flitter away from the screening vessels. The Universe — or Nothing In his ear buzzed the comforting hum of the com, tying him with the flitter and so, in a manner, to safety. Star Born Flecks of light, moving in an arc, headed towards the speeding flitter. Star Hunter The pilot was unconscious and the flitter's door could not be opened from the outside, but those were not insuperable obstacles. The Vortex Blaster But the nose of the flitter acted as if it were overweighted or magnetically attracted by the rocks below. Voodoo Planet He hurried through and twisted into the flitter driver's cage. The Universe — or Nothing And remembering what had summoned the flitter winging toward him, Raf drew a deep breath. Star Born A man can live for quite a while on very thin rations, and we have tablets from the flitter emergency supplies. Star Hunter Becky Bannister was as white as the doves that were flittering down to the garden pool to drink. The Trumpeter Swan Unless the flitter was deliberately sabotaged, he was planning for us to use our canteens in the preserve. Voodoo Planet That brightly colored, beautiful little flitter buried itself deep in our forward cargo bay. The Universe — or Nothing But, perhaps by now the flitter was gone, he might never reach the RS 10. Star Born It had been Wass' pilot in the flitter which snaked them from the river islet where the monsters had besieged them. Star Hunter They flittered to and fro, scanning wide bands of the surface of Dara. This World Is Taboo But one look at the front of the flitter told Dane that it would not take to the air again without extensive repairs. Voodoo Planet As the flitter rose and headed toward the dome Brad thought back as he weighed their chances. The Universe — or Nothing Then the sensation was gone as the black blot of the flitter buzzed out of the clouds. Star Born Hume switched on the flitter's com unit, tried a channel search until he picked up a click of signal—the automatic reply of the safari camp. Star Hunter Then the skeleton flitter moved to the left—out into the glare of the early day, a light too bright, even through the shielded viewplates of his helmet. Plague Ship But there may also be something fatal to flitters here as there is over Mygra. Voodoo Planet Zolan stabilized the flitter to hover stationary barely a meter above the frozen methane. The Universe — or Nothing He had no chance of reaching the spacer— It was so easy to remember those mountains, the heights over which he had lifted the flitter. Star Born The flitter stood to his left, the flashing atom lamp, where the men were gathered, to his right. Star Hunter He stepped up the power of the flitter to the top notch and saw with some relief that the ground beneath them was now the rocky waste bordering the devastated area. Plague Ship He is silent, but she reads the disturbance of his soul in his firmly shut mouth, and the little, quick, flittering frown that draws his brows together in momentary rapidity. The Hoyden Observing the power levels rise on the gauges, his fingers stroked the flitter's keys and levers. The Universe — or Nothing Raf brought the flitter down on a roof as close to the main holding of the painted people as he could get. Star Born The flitter was boring forwards on a projectile flight, into the dark of the night. Star Hunter Mile after mile of the green jungle swept under the flitter, and the flash of the counter's light continued to record a land unfit for mankind. Plague Ship A bat's wing had flittered past his nose so close that he might have caught it in his teeth if he had wanted to—and been quick enough. Children of the Wild The framework and cage quivered and the flitter lifted up and away. The Universe — or Nothing After they had gone, Raf opened a compartment in the flitter, the contents of which were his particular care. Star Born Hume touched controls, the flitter descended slowly just above the center of the lake. Star Hunter Once out among the rocks on the shoreline he could pull the blaster and herd the man to the flitter. Plague Ship Shortly after nightfall, the hill of Kilteely was seen covered with men and horses, and within an old ruined house on the top of the hill a dim light was seen to occasionally flitter. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two I will respond with standard flitter yellows at the same spacing. The Universe — or Nothing By the time he got back to the flitter or was able to find Hobart and the others, it might already be too late. Star Born Then he sent the flitter in a weaving zigzag course well above the surface of the water, so that eventually the flyer passed over every foot of its surface. Star Hunter It was only when they were standing by the flitter and he saw the suits that his eyes widened and he said: "The Big Burn!" Plague Ship And Mary chose this for her play, Whenever he looked in her eye She'd blush and turn quickly away, And flitter and flutter and sigh. Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs Scarf sneered, his bulk cramped the remaining space behind the flitter's pilot seat. The Universe — or Nothing He must get out of here, back to the flitter, try to help where unwittingly he had harmed— Dalgard caught up with him. Star Born He brought the flitter up and over the valley wall, flying southwest so that they passed over the gap which was the main entrance to the trap. Star Hunter But in that passing how much had he and the flitter become contaminated? Plague Ship "Why are you so anxious for me to sting the rabbit?" asked the wasp, as he flittered his steely-blue wings. Uncle Wiggily's Travels Mother: Leave now knocking the furniture to flitters. Three Wonder Plays He had a strong surmise that had he been tempted to roam away from the flitter the move would not have been encouraged by the alien guardsmen. Star Born The flitter was on the automatic course, taking them out of the mountains, and Vye thought that their air speed was such they were already well removed from that sinister valley. Star Hunter Dane went over the flitter with his small counter and was relieved to find that they had done a good job of shielding under Ali's supervision. Plague Ship He has a swift vision of the azure damsel-fly flittering in the wood: Child of the simmering quiet, there to die. The Poetry Of Robert Browning Alice Deringham turned, and saw the girl's fingers flittering across the paper, but her face was still hidden and the monotonous voice continued, "We made a few advances during the last week or two." Alton of Somasco When he came back to the flitter, Soriki was awake and stretching. Star Born But the lights were there—not impinging on the flitter, or patrolling along its line of flight. Star Hunter Now they acted as a beacon to draw the flitter to its berth. Plague Ship But no one would rise to his tempestuous heights; Debate flittered out; Bill read Second Time; House up by Seven o'Clock. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 20, 1890 Mrs. Budlong herself was never known to break any of the commandments, but in her back parlor her neighbors made flitters of the one against coveting thy neighbor's and-so-forth and so-on. Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents Had he had free use of the flitter he might have tried to swing down from the hovering machine after dark. Star Born And it was on one of the upper slopes that the flitter passed over two of the blue beasts lumbering along. Star Hunter Instead he gestured to the suit Ali had lashed beneath the seat in the flitter. Plague Ship The brow is weak, and the eyes flittering and restless; and the mouth is usually garnished with a cold simper, not very compatible with that heart-born enthusiasm which precludes all doubt of truth and sincerity. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 482, March 26, 1831 Ruth went to bed with the rest of her thinking and the brook-music flittering in her brain. We Girls: a Home Story It was barely dawn when the globe took off the next day, and Raf brought the flitter up on its trail, heading westward into the sea wind. Star Born They reached the ledge where the flitter perched just as they had seen it last. Star Hunter The flitter spiraled up into the sunlight and Dane wondered how long it would be before this outrage was reported to the nearest Plant Police base. Plague Ship Mineog: Let the Champion go to flitters before I will die to please it! New Irish Comedies Hope is crushed; and after her flittering shade spring up misanthropy and despair. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827 The questions from the two at the flitter came together. Star Born Guiding the younger man with a light hold above the elbow, he walked him out back to the flitter landing stage. Star Hunter Sometimes pockets of these made a core of light which pulsed, sending warning fingers at the flitter which sped across it. Plague Ship Well, I flittered and fluttered up and down the avenue, like a distracted butterfly. Bambi Then Capes flittered to the hearthrug and poked the fire, stood up, and turned about. Ann Veronica, a modern love story By evening he had the flitter assembled save for the motor which still reposed on the turning block. Star Born Hume's sense of being a gambler facing a run of good luck grew as he shepherded the boy into the flitter, punched a cover destination and took off. Star Hunter Lines swung down to fasten their magnetic clamps on the flitter. Plague Ship As he stepped forward a dazzling light shone from the vaulted roof upheld by massive columns, and across the crystal side-walls flittered curious, shadowy figures. Good Stories for Holidays She breathes, but something flitters under her flesh: Wynoc the leech must help us now. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 When he reported that the flitter, barring unexpected accidents, would be air-borne by the following afternoon, he was shown an enlarged picture from the records made during the descent of the RS 10. Star Born The other slapped his hand down on an air-car call button, stood waiting until one of the city flitters landed on beam before them. Star Hunter Can we shield one of the flitters well enough to cross that? Plague Ship George Sheldon looked at his elder brother with a malicious flitter in his eyes. Birds of Prey The symptoms, as stated to me, were strikingly like yours, excepting the nervous difference of the two characters; the flittering fever, &c. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey A freakish air current caught the flitter as if in a giant hand, and Raf fought for control as they lost altitude past the margin of safety. Star Born The symptoms, as stated to me, were strikingly like yours, excepting the nervous difference of the two characters; the flittering fever, etc. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. It was mid-afternoon when Dane noted that the green carpet beneath the flitter was displaying holes—that small breaks in the vegetation became sizable stretches of rocky waste. Plague Ship Through her mind flittered for the first time something like an adequate realization of the vast, abysmal gulf in culture-status still yawning between these barbarians and Allan and herself. Darkness and Dawn I was here alone in a lonely field, at nine of the clock on a winter night, and there, flittering and gliding through the spinney was a something in white. The Yeoman Adventurer Soriki had gone back to the flitter to make his report to the ship. Star Born As it grows dusk the bats flitter to and fro by the house; there are moths, then, abroad for them. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies He skimmed across it and brought the flitter down in a rock cliff walled sand pocket with surf booming some yards away, where he would be reasonably sure of safe hiding. Plague Ship And many a silly thing That hops and cheeps, And perks his tiny tail, And sideway peeps, And flitters little wing, Seems in his consequential way To tell of Spring. Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems Presently the ground sloped abruptly, lights flittered to and fro, and she thought all at once that she had gone mad when she saw some horses in the sky. Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. They were on their way back to the flitter! Star Born Wonderful earth Of little kindly things, That buzz and beam And flitter little wings! The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems As the outer port of the flitter berth closed Dane reached over and pulled loose the lashing which immobilized his companion. Plague Ship A few light clouds flittered Northward, and vanished. The House on the Borderland Mr. Parker did not answer, but a wintry smile flittered across his face. The Prince and Betty Both his alien passengers jumped out of the flitter, as if only too pleased at their release from the Terran flyer. Star Born Even as he spoke, as many as a dozen lights flashed past him and went flittering on across the fields. The Tale of Freddie Firefly De Courtenay threw back his head and laughed, the flecks of light from the fire flittering across his handsome features. The Maid of the Whispering Hills There is an address at Birmingham in the autumn looming large, and ghosts of unfinished work flitter threateningly. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Now and then an arrow would flitter between us; but their supply of ammunition seemed very scanty. The Ivory Trail The pilot was secretly relieved when Captain Hobart dropped out of the hatch in the globe and made his way over to the flitter. Star Born So on they glided down the ancient, darksome stairway, where owls hooted and bats flittered in their faces. Pearl-Maiden Twice a hatchet came flittering through the firelight, its bright blade flashing as it circled, to fall perilously close, and several times a squaw or two prodded one or the other with a moccasined toe. The Maid of the Whispering Hills Again the lightning flashed, showing the faces and staring eyes of the thousands who watched, and even the white teeth of a great bat that flittered past. Allan and the Holy Flower They flicked and flitted and flittered, they danced and pirouetted and spun through the air, trailing what in the aqueous moonlight looked like mist, irradiated, star-sown. Angel Island The party spent the night there, the four spacemen wrapped in their sleeping rolls by the flitter, the aliens in their globe ship. Star Born Good Lord, that poor child's dress is in flitters. Ulysses His best periwig he inclosed in a little box on the inside with a joined-stool, and other weight upon it; the box was snapped asunder, and the wig torn all to flitters. Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects At the same time many hundred copies of these poems flittered through the hall, and all shouted joyously, "Long live Joseph Haydn, the German maestro!" Andreas Hofer The drooping leaves of the birches in the hollow flittered ominously, and when he reached the summit a bluff that stood out from the plain two or three miles off suddenly vanished. The Girl from Keller's But it was evident that they were alive, and as Raf brought the flitter closer, he was also certain that they ran on their two hind feet instead of on an animal's four pads. Star Born To a profound scholar like myself, the presence of these young women, many of them most attractive, flittering up and down the streets of Oxford in their caps and gowns, is very distressing. My Discovery of England "Osman Bey Bardissi," replied the wounded man, and now, exhausted as he was from loss of blood, a proud smile flittered over his handsome countenance. Mohammed Ali and His House The opera singer had been of the butterfly type—in his later years a middle-aged butterfly whose wings creaked somewhat—but decidedly a flitter from flower to flower. The Portygee There would be flies to be watched, slender atoms in yellow gauze that flew, and filmy specks that flittered, and sturdy, thick-ribbed brutes that pounced like cats and bit like dogs and flew like lightning. Irish Fairy Tales If they believed that the Terran flitter was immobilized when he, and he alone, was not behind its controls, this was just the move they would make. Star Born Then with a scream, like a woman's shriek of fury, the accursed Thing flittered on, seeking his violated tomb, and vanished down the well into the sepulchre. Cleopatra I was oiling my working-day boots without taking ’em off, and wi’ my head hanging down, when she just brushed on by the garden hatch like a flittering leaf. Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Presently, as the scissors flittered in and out of the leaves, she, began talking to herself. Villa Rubein, and other stories A small shape flittered from behind an adjacent tree, and lo! the subject of my thoughts stood before me. My Lady Caprice Their two alien passengers were out of the flitter as soon as he opened the bubble shield. Star Born The casement burst asunder, and on flittering wings that great bat entered which last I had seen hanging to the eunuch's chin in the womb of the pyramid of Her. Cleopatra "I wonder," mused the Professor, "if anyone in the village—" The little serving maid flittering among the gooseberry bushes—she was pretending to be gathering goose-berries—caught the Professor's eye. The Fawn Gloves Presently she lifted her head to watch the flitter of a bat and the moonlight lit upon her face. Montezuma's Daughter And uttering that soft starry 'you,' she leaned Her gentle body near him, looking up; And from her eyes, as from a poison-cup, He drank until the flittering eyelids screened. Poems — Volume 1 The globe, sealed as if ready for a take-off, was some distance away, but installed about halfway between it and the flitter were two of the alien warriors. Star Born Quite forgetful of himself and his part in the spectacle, his brow furrowed with anxiety, he was flittering from one to another of the performers. The Land of Footprints I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error. Jane Eyre Raf brought the flitter down on the cracked surface of the road, mistrusting what might lie hidden in the field grass. Star Born The weird desolation of the landscape began to work its spell on the men in the flitter. Star Born The aliens remained in a cluster at the foot of the ladder while the Terran commander crossed to the flitter. Star Born Funny Face would nibble relishingly at his prune for a moment or so; then an altogether astonishing butterfly would flitter by just overhead. The Land of Footprints When the Terran remained stubbornly where he was, pointing in the direction which, to him, meant return to the flitter, the other made gestures describing an aircraft in flight. Star Born The flitter had been put through every possible test in his home world. Star Born When they had reached the roof top where the Terrans had landed their flitter, they had come with empty hands, making gestures of good will and welcome. Star Born With those talking fingers, he was able to make plain a question: was Raf the pilot of the flitter? Star Born Though, on the other hand, he would be utterly opposed to lifting the flitter over those mountains again except in broad daylight. Star Born Lablet got out of the flitter and walked to the edge of the roof, leaning against the parapet to focus his vision glasses on what lay below. Star Born The alien flyer could not land here, not without coming down flat upon the flitter. Star Born Raf, as a pilot of flitter, had always believed that he had no fear of heights. Star Born Meanwhile he studied the scene on the visa plate, trying to find the roof on which they had left the flitter. Star Born Somehow he must get the officer to take him back to the flitter—to be there would be better than shut up in one of the alien dwellings. Star Born Raf Kurbi, flitter pilot and techneer, lay on the padded shock cushion of his assigned bunk and stared with wide, disillusioned eyes at the stretch of stark, gray metal directly overhead. Star Born But he turned and went to the flitter. Star Born He triggered the shield which snapped over them for a windbreak and brought the flitter up into the spreading color of the morning. Star Born And he made an emphatic gesture that the windshield could not be opened while the flitter was air-borne. Star Born |
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