Flutterer

Why he called her his flutterer no one ever knew, unless it was because her ribbons were incessantly fluttering; but, had he called her his shadow, the name would have been more appropriate. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The pigeons flew toward the flutterer, made a swirl in the air, and began to light on the pigeon pole. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The one marked with a cross is drawn by the flutterer and means that he is for it. ❋ Various (N/A)

You see -- poor, giddy flutterer -- he did not like to hear the plain truth spoken; flattery would have pleased him better, yet truth, though sometimes bitter, is a wholesome tonic when taken properly. ❋ Gertrude P. Dyer (N/A)

Philosophy there is, and very good philosophy too, from the flutterer and fritter, and such love-making as every virtuous woman (at heart a minx) allows. ❋ Various (N/A)

If not, it meant that she was out of the chrysalis and had become, not the busy bee that belongs to the mesquite and the sage, but a gaudier, less responsible flutterer among eastern flower-beds. ❋ Unknown (1906)

"Don't get alarmed, don't get peevish, don't get panicky, don't be a wicked old flutterer, Ham, my boy!" he said. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

It was only the lightest touch; and instantly, suddenly, as if startled by the chill contact, the azure flutterer rose again. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

It seemed to catch the eccentric little flutterer fairly. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

'This,' said Mr Wopples in his deep voice, holding his wife's hand as if he were afraid she would float upward thro 'the ceiling like a bubble -- a not unlikely thing seeing how remarkably ethereal she looked;' this is my flutterer. ' ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)

I held it up, the flutterer lighted upon it, and at first slowly, warily, and then triumphantly, I lowered it under the lintel out into the veranda, and the bird darted away into the garden and was gone like a soul into heaven. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)

Stevenson into this outcast flutterer of a Tory paper, to the great joy of some of the very irregular contributors. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

(It was an honest flutterer -- its contributors received their wages.) ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

Otherwise Gower Woodseer's dash at the quintessential young man of wealth would prompt to the carrying of it further, and telling how the tethered flutterer above a 'devil on his back on a river' was beginning to pull if not drag his withholder and teaser. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

She fancied she had put on proof-armour, unconscious that it was the turning of the inward flutterer to steel, which supplied her cuirass and shield. ❋ George Meredith (1868)